How to Dominate China in the Olympic Rankings

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The2ndAct, on 08/14/2008, -4/+284Another option is to have Michael Phelps do every event.
vandal191, on 08/14/2008, -14/+256Traditionally medal counts don't mean anything. You don't win the Olympics.
SeventhSon, on 08/14/2008, -6/+243Poor Canada.
chrissku, on 08/14/2008, -29/+238China's 9 yr old female gymnasts did awesome winning gold. Oops...I meant to say 16 yr old gymnasts.
fade79, on 08/14/2008, -26/+202Actually the US has been using medal totals for Olympic rankings for some time now . It wasn't a recent change.
GhandicapXRS, on 08/14/2008, -10/+107Poor Canada doesn't even have a single medal yet. But then again, summer sports aren't really Canada's thing. See you at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Eh bitches!
shutaro, on 08/14/2008, -7/+92That's communist talk!
Mikelulz, on 08/14/2008, -14/+96Therefore, the article submitter is an idiot.
Schmidtopolis, on 08/14/2008, -2/+83See you in 2010 bitches. Come on, you know we only do well with sports involving cold weather.
sprintmarathon, on 08/14/2008, -5/+80You must be Canadian.
fwertz, on 08/14/2008, -2/+75Either way, our medals, are made in China.
londonflare, on 08/14/2008, -8/+78Can I congratulate Canada on their position of 77th in the medal table, lucky you're not called Zanada or you'd be well down in 204th position.
ricker2005, on 08/14/2008, -23/+84Anti-American ***** on Digg? Unheard of!

This is how the US media has ranked countries in the Olympics for years and years now. The fact that you just noticed it doesn't make it new.
marskid2, on 08/14/2008, -5/+63I don't get why everyone is at odds with the Chinese. We like their General Gao's Chicken, they our basketball. They export low-quality manufactured goods to us, we export our national debt to them. Everybody wins in my book!
WELLDOITLIVE, on 08/14/2008, -12/+69It angers me that everybody knows they are lying, but can't do anything about it because China's government controls the paperwork so strictly. It's plainly obvious but ***** won't happen :/
Jonmad17, on 08/14/2008, -8/+61China just surpassed us in total medals anyways. So it doesn't matter now.
SkippyDoorknob, on 08/14/2008, -4/+49And not only that, almost every TV report where they show the medal totals, they also point out the specific gold medal rankings as well.
punkcat, on 08/14/2008, -0/+37we need to throw water on all the events.
brock2020, on 08/14/2008, -19/+54We can beat China, we just need 8 year olds to compete against their 10 year olds.
greengarfield, on 08/14/2008, -24/+54I believe the change happened when they weren't number 1 anymore...it won't matter anyway as China will probably win more medals this time
punkcat, on 08/14/2008, -4/+34it doesn't even matter, all totals are represented, take away from that information what you will.

nowhere does it even state that the top on the table is the "winner" of the olympics.
rtaibah, on 05/22/2009, -5/+34Umm ya pretty much but the problem is it's shouldn't be up to them. The IOC already made that decision for them. Wikipedia:

"The IOC medal tally chart is based on the number of gold medals for country. Where states are equal, the number of silver medals (and then bronze medals) are counted to determine rankings"
AlienMushroom, on 08/14/2008, -17/+44That's OK. China has topped both the Gold Medal and total medal counts.
1 China 22 8 5 35
2 USA 10 9 15 34
Didn't you get the memo?
Regbooker, on 08/14/2008, -5/+30And almost half US gold medals were obtained thanks to one guy.

Phelps is amazing, but China will own the medal counter big time in this occasion.
RapnGranny, on 08/14/2008, -3/+27:) In a way, it's a sign of Canada's commitment to the true intent of the Olympics, which is amateur athletics. You could really say Canada is an Olympic leader. No fancy government sponsorships for our athletes.

Canada - proud to be humble.
XxZtemxX, on 08/14/2008, -4/+28its not an example of Us arrogance, its an example of how the media ***** our ***** up on a daily basis.
SeventhSon, on 08/14/2008, -1/+25I play hockey, and a few Canadians live in my neighborhood. They constantly hand my ass to me not only in hockey, but anything we do under 10°C.
inactive, on 08/14/2008, -11/+35The USA has been doing medal counts by totals for years. Didn't you get the memo?
tamahagane, on 08/14/2008, -4/+27Odd how you can't read a wiki.
Gold Chen Xiexia Weightlifting Women's 48 kg
Gold Pang Wei Shooting Men's 10 m air pistol
Gold Guo Wenjun Shooting Women's 10 m air pistol
Gold Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia Diving Women's synchronized 3 m springboard
Gold Xian Dongmei Judo Women's 52 kg
Gold Long Qingquan Weightlifting Men's 56 kg
Gold Huo Liang, Lin Yue Diving Men's 10 m synchronized platform
Gold Chen Yanqing Weightlifting Women's 58 kg
Gold Zhang Xiangxiang Weightlifting Men's 62 kg
Huang Xu, Chen Yibing, Li Xiaopeng, Xiao Qin, Yang Wei, Zou Kai Gymnastics Men's artistic team all-around
Gold Chen Ruolin, Wang Xin Diving Women's synchronized 10 m platform
Gold Zhong Man Fencing Men's sabre
Gold Liao Hui Weightlifting Men's 69 kg
Gold Yang Yilin, Cheng Fei, Jiang Yuyan, Deng Linlin, He Kexin, Li Shanshan Gymnastics Women's artistic team all-around
Gold Wang Feng, Qin Kai Diving Men's synchronized 3 m springboard
Gold Chen Ying Shooting Women's 25 metre pistol
Gold Liu Chunhong Weightlifting Women's 69 kg
Gold Liu Zige Swimming Women's 200 m butterfly
Gold Du Li Shooting Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
Gold Yang Wei Gymnastics Men's artistic individual all-around
Gold Zhang Juanjuan Archery Women's individual
Golid Yang Xiuli Judo Women's 78 kg
Shoebox639, on 08/14/2008, -8/+30They gonna start sorting by bronze medals now.
terminal157, on 08/14/2008, -1/+22Winning the most medals total or the most gold medals would be an honor for any country. Both are impressive achievements. I can't help but think this is silly.
fwertz, on 08/14/2008, -1/+22Or 12,000 calories.
sbassoli, on 08/14/2008, -2/+22We should totally rank it by number of bronzes earned... we're killin' it.
inactive, on 08/14/2008, -1/+20I am pretty sure you can find other countries that will trounce USA when it comes to population to medal ratio too.
007kz, on 08/14/2008, -7/+26Age in sports shouldn't matter. Even some of the American pros agree (do the research, I'm too lazy to find a link).

Besides, America wouldn't allow anyone under 16 to compete even IF there was no age limit, since the US is so strict on protecting children's well-being and health (not saying that's a bad thing).

Besides, there's still NO evidence that they aren't 16. Have you see some Chinese girls who are 16? A lot of them could EASILY be mistaken as 14 year-olds. Stop being all so arrogant, and use logic instead of emotions to supports your opinions next time. Whatever happened to "innocent until proven guilty"?
mad05963, on 08/14/2008, -0/+17@ MisterEX - FYI - Liu Xiang (from China) won gold at the 2004 games in the 110m hurdles and broke the world record in 2006.
Swarms, on 08/14/2008, -9/+26You're really grasping at things to make fun of the US about now, huh? This really isn't that much of a scandal.
galeninjapan, on 08/14/2008, -10/+25Just wait till we get to the track and field events.
bduddy, on 08/14/2008, -2/+16Proof!

http://web.archive.org/web/20060109022527/http://w ...

Article submitter=wrong.
SocialPoison, on 08/14/2008, -0/+14Yeah because they're done with all the "paddle and net" sports. Let's see how things are looking after track and field ;)
Regbooker, on 08/14/2008, -2/+16Besides the sarcasm in your comment, and as a historical note, real communists were obsessed with the medal count of their countries. They used it for propaganda purposes.
CedEx, on 08/14/2008, -3/+16Umm... I believe the American gymnast Alicia Scramone started dancing at 3, and gymnastics by 5 years... so really, how is that any different? All olympians are pretty much groomed from birth these days. Any later and you won't be a contender.
elfprince13, on 08/14/2008, -0/+12i wouldn't be at all surprised if his legs are in better shape than most of the runners.
krismanx, on 08/14/2008, -0/+12Now click the green icon by on purpose.
inactive, on 08/14/2008, -7/+18The USA was listing by total medal count when the USSR was still around beating the USA in totals. The USA is at least being consistent. If you really want to rank by medals then each medal type should be assigned points with gold naturally having the highest. But you're just a trolling moron aren't you?
eSentrik, on 08/14/2008, -2/+13We do pretty well for only having warm weather 4 months of the year.
SeventhSon, on 08/14/2008, -1/+12Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
inactive, on 08/14/2008, -8/+19That's what a loser said after he lost. Had he won, he would have spoken the opposite.
Jonmad17, on 08/14/2008, -0/+10It isn't almost, exactly half of out current gold medals belong to Michael Phelps.
inactive, on 08/14/2008, -9/+19Current medal count:
http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/G ...

I think the US is doing fine considering there are not 1.3 billion people here and the children are not taken from the parents at the age of three to make them into an Olympian.
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