Paris 2024 Olympics thread (the opening ceremony is Friday) on NBC/USA network/Peacock and other NBC Universal stations.

[Planogirl]

Counting total medals is pointless. You have tiny countries with small delegations and of course they won’t win as many. They should still feel proud of whatever they do. It’s fun to look at totals but really doesn’t mean much imo.

 

[Buzz Rules]

Medals in shooting, archery, golf, swimming, and gymnastics for team today. Maybe we will gain some more in Track and Field today as well?

 

[Babs Johnson]

Good night. It's a yes or no question. Can't someone (or an organization) decide how they want to rank the medal table? By the way, it's not just NBC.

Certainly. The IOC, the organization that owns and runs the whole thing, has decided how they want to rank the medals table. By the quantity of gold medals. Their opinion is the only one that matters.

By the way, just because other sources besides NBC have decided another method suits themselves doesn’t make it valid.

You have a bug up your butt about this. But relax, in the end the US almost always “wins” the medal race in using the IOC official method. Nothing to get your panties twisted about.

 

[CynBeth]

Medals in shooting, archery, golf, swimming, and gymnastics for team today. Maybe we will gain some more in Track and Field today as well?

And not just medals but breaking world records in swimming!

 

[sam_gordon]

Certainly. The IOC, the organization that owns and runs the whole thing, has decided how they want to rank the medals table. By the quantity of gold medals. Their opinion is the only one that matters.

How does it matter though? Does the country at the top of the table get another medal?

By the way, just because other sources besides NBC have decided another method suits themselves doesn’t make it valid.

I was trying to point out that it's NOT only the US Broadcaster that was using total medal count to sort. Maybe I didn't explain myself well.

You have a bug up your butt about this. But relax, in the end the US almost always “wins” the medal race in using the IOC official method. Nothing to get your panties twisted about.

No. I have a bug up my butt when I ask a direct question, multiple times, and I get "non" answers. To say nothing about this being a discussion board, and if everyone agreed all the time, it would be pretty boring.

To settle your concern, I really don't care which country "wins" the Olympics. It won't affect me one teeny bit. I do disagree that gold medal count is a good way to rank. Using that, if a country has a single Gold, no silver, and no bronze, they should be ranked higher than a country with 0G, 25S, 30B?

 

[Buzz Rules]

No poster here is in charge of the U.S. it doesn't negate or invalidate their opinion just because announcers/media say X.

True. All I'm saying is if there is an official medal race than the IOC should confirm one measurement.

 

[declansdad]

No. It’s total medals. Has been that way for a long time now.

Only in the USA.

 

[declansdad]

OK? Can't anyone decide whats more important to them?

You can do it whatever way you want but there is only one official way to do it and that's by the number of gold medals.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

True. All I'm saying is if there is an official medal race than the IOC should confirm one measurement.

In my case I'm talking about what posters opinions are on an internet forum, not a governing body in charge. I am not saying counting by only gold is wrong or counting by total medals is right. It's just how someone prefers it or likes it and personally I like looking at total medals; I'm not a competitive person and don't care whether someone wins gold over bronze or silver. I like celebrating all so if I were to go looking at how the Olympics are going in medal count I'd prefer a source that reflects total medal count above total gold. You do you.

 

[Buzz Rules]

In my case I'm talking about what posters opinions are on an internet forum, not a governing body in charge. I am not saying counting by only gold is wrong or counting by total medals is right. It's just how someone prefers it or likes it and personally I like looking at total medals; I'm not a competitive person and don't care whether someone wins gold over bronze or silver. I like celebrating all so if I were to go looking at how the Olympics are going in medal count I'd prefer a source that reflects total medal count above total gold. You do you.

I totally understand what you are saying and as I said, I celebrate all athletes winning. It is just a personal thing that bugs me about the medal count.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I totally understand what you are saying and as I said, I celebrate all athletes winning. It is just a personal thing that bugs me about the medal count.

To be fair you made it about how the U.S. media is trying to say we're number one by using total medal count at the same time as posting in this thread largely about only U.S. athletes, competitions, medal counts and wins. It makes it look like you care about U.S. wins equally as the media you speak disapprovingly of.

I go by sports I enjoy watching not by nation represented. Although admittedly sometimes I've selected matches of something, water polo for example (though I've watched greece and other nations' matches), because I enjoyed the nations in it like I did for Croatia and Montenegro because we visited there last year (also visited greece too) but I wouldn't watch a sport I don't enjoy just because the U.S. was in it.

 

[lisaviolet]

You do you.

He is not doing him. He is following how the IOC decides the order. You know the organization that actually decides how the Olympics are run.

As for listing of other news sources that decide to go rogue doing 'them', they are all American. Including the internationally used AP, still American.

I looked up NBC's explanation. They actually use the verbiage, 'But some countries and organizations outside America sort nations based on their number of gold medals.'

Some. Absolutely hysterical.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

He is not doing him. He is following how the IOC decides the order. You know the organization that actually decides how the Olympics are run.

As for listing of other news sources that decide to go rogue doing 'them', they are all American. Including the internationally used AP, still American.

I looked up NBC's explanation. They actually use the verbiage, 'But some countries and organizations outside America sort nations based on their number of gold medals.'

Some. Absolutely hysterical.

Again we're talking about opinion. Their opinion is X, others is Y.

If someone stated "this is how it should be applied" (which I do think a poster alluded to that) then by all means talk about it in the ways of a governing body. But if someone is saying "I like looking at it this way" or "I don't mind it that way" it's all just opinion and talking about governing bodies is not applicable no matter how many times you try to make it. It's two different conversations that people are mixing up.

 

[lisaviolet]

As for celebrating these massive accomplishments by all of these dedicated Olympic athletes, absolutely. A given.

I am an Olympic junkie, and am always in awe.

But winning is winning. That is why it is a competition. And that is what every athlete trains for day in, day out.

(This post has nothing to do with medal count.)

 

[White Cat]

Only in the USA.

That’s right! I’ll stick with that and it’s worked for me for a long time now. Not concerned how others go about it.

 

[lisaviolet]

Poor Alex Walsh! She DQ’d in the 200 IM and lost a medal. She turned all the way over on her stomach transitioning from the backstroke to breaststroke which is a no-no. What a sad and terrible rookie mistake .

How devastating for her.
It is a coaching error as well, as our commentator said it is the second time she has done it in recent times. A la let's be right on it.

On our coverage our commentator saw the board quite a bit before Alex did & I felt sick for her there smiling and celebrating with Kate Douglass, oblivious at first.

 

[declansdad]

That’s right! I’ll stick with that and it’s worked for me for a long time now. Not concerned how others go about it.

Not surprised

 

[declansdad]

One heck of a 100M men's final!

 

[HokieRaven5]

One heck of a 100M men's final!

Slowest start to fastest finish, quite the way to take the gold.

 

[Buzz Rules]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820192491699839040

And with that we are tied with China for the lead with 19 gold.
The game is on China.