It could have been an earlier games...I don't recall which one exactly but clearly remember it happening.
Quick google...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080815204044AAig9jS
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It could have been an earlier games...I don't recall which one exactly but clearly remember it happening.
Quick google...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080815204044AAig9jS
If you say so. Liek I say perhaps they were just showing the gold medals for a moment before focusing on the table as it is usually presented in the US, I have seen that done a number of times.
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Like I say growing up, starting back in the 70's when I first started watching I have always seen the tables in the US presented sorted by total medals, not gold. Perhaps it was just a northeast thing, and in other areas of the countries they showed it other ways.
Of course not that it really matters it is not like at the end of the games they give out a special award to the nation with the most Golds or the most total medals. End of the day it is just a way to sort some numbers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_medal_table
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The gold first ranking system described above is used by most of the world media, as well as the IOC. While the gold first ranking system has been used occasionally by some American media outlets, newspapers in the United States and Canada primarily publish medal tables ordered by the total number of medals won,[6][7][8][9][10][11] and Canada used the total medal count on the official website for the Vancouver Olympics.[12]
This difference in rankings has its origins in the early days of the Olympics, when the IOC did not publish or recognise medal tables.[1] Before 2008, the difference in ranking system received scant notice, since in recent Olympic history the country that led in total medals also led in the gold count. China and the U.S. bucked this trend at the 2008 Summer Olympics, topping the gold and total medal tallies respectively,[13] and a similar situation occurred at the 2010 Winter Olympics when Canada and the U.S. finished 1st and 3rd respectively in the "gold first" ranking[14] or 3rd and 1st respectively in terms of total medals won.[12] Other exceptions are the 1896, 1912, and 1964 Summer Olympics when the United States finished first in gold medal count but second in the overall medal count. In an August 24, 2008 news conference, IOC President Jacques Rogge confirmed that the IOC does not have a view on any particular ranking system.[5]
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It sounds like 2008 became a tipping point because most of the time (but not all) before that the nation that won the most golds also won the most medals, so to many they would look at see first in gold, first in total, same thing. At the 2008 Summer Games China ran away with the Gold Medal Count but the US had the most total medals (the first time since 1964 that something liek th at had happened if Wiki is correct) so I wonder if for many people it seemed that in 2008 something had changed in the US but it really had not.
Found this article on the issue also. It even has a quote from some Russian dude moaning about the gold first table sorting, lol.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...1893833843.html?mod=psp_free_today&mg=com-wsj
Found this article on the issue also. It even has a quote from some Russian dude moaning about the gold first table sorting, lol.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles...1893833843.html?mod=psp_free_today&mg=com-wsj
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From UK live in CA.
Thanks. You have a lot knowledge about winter sport (and the Nordic events + biathlon) to be brit living in yank. Good to see!
I've done a bit of racing myself. I love it but hate having to wait to see it when I generally know the results.
Gotta suck even more being on the west coast depending on when the event starts you would have to be up at 3?am to catch it live.
Yes. Comcast has fairly good replays with the OnDemand thing but it's still annoying. Primetime is just full of ice dancing and won't have anything that doesn't contain an American.
I care so little I almost passed out.
Nordic combined has been exciting. The last part of the course seems designed to generate clashes.
I don't know why Americans don't like the biathlon. It's the only Winter Olympic event with guns in it!
Biathlon is a great spectacle sport tbf. Not a lot of more sports that are as nerve wracking. Strangely (as a Noggie) I've just about lost interest in ski jumping, nordic combined and speed skating. Never view them anymore.
Alpine skiing, with Tina Maze and Anna Fenninger though, is very watchable.
Alpine skiing, with Tina Maze and Anna Fenninger though, is very watchable.
This swiss librarian looks nervous as feck.
Yeeees!
Well done to the curling girls
SKIIIII CROOSSSSS!!
SKIIIII CROSSSSSSSSSS!!!
Guy in red clearly won.
It really isn't.
It's like the marathon on skis. The only good part is the finish.
You realize biathlon is the one with the guns, right?
Curling?.ffs.When is Usain bolt running.
Yeah but they stop, line up and shoot at a plastic target. It's like darts. It's like walking uphill, with darts.
Cross-country skiing is one of the shittest sports ever. Right up there with those stupid walking races in the summer olympics. Take something that can be done really quickly and sloooooow it right down.
Adding guns makes it no less dull.
Maybe if they were allowed to shoot each other...
Adding guns makes it no less dull.
Maybe if they were allowed to shoot each other...
Except, you know, you have to be an athlete to actually do it.
I'll admit that cross-country skiing events are generally boring, and I certainly wont sit down and watch an entire event. I will have it in the background, though. I also quite like the more intense ones, like the sprint, or the relay.
Biathlon is similar, but with more reasons to switch back to it frequently.
I don't expect Brits and Irishmen to be very fond of skiing events, particularly considering how bad they are at them.
How does the scoring in curling work?
Closest stones to the center of the circle, while in circle, score at the end of the end.
I love skiing. I was skiing last week. That shit isn't skiing. It's the really tedious bit of walking inbetween the actual skiing. Where you're stuck between lifts, or didn't get enough speed up to reach the restaurant.
You've made a sport out of the only boring bit of skiing. And then put darts in it.
Well done.
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We very nearly literally invented skiing, so you'll appreciate if I don't take your word for it. I'll ask your opinion if I'm interested in polo, or fox hunting.
Oh, yeah, and we also won the gold in Super-G.
Oh, yeah, and we also won the gold in Super-G.
Those bits are even more of a pain in the ball sack when you're on a snowboard. Actually, someone should make that an Olympic event. Hop-shuffling over enormous distances up a gentle incline with one foot clipped into a snowboard. Could swap the guns for a bow and arrow. Or maybe some ninja throwing stars.
Canada are going to win another gold. (in curling)
I'm not sure you've thought this approach through if you're going to argue with an English-man on a website in which people mainly discuss football.
Super-G's alright.
It's still not Ski Cross.
Nothing is as good as Ski Cross.
It's still not Ski Cross.
Nothing is as good as Ski Cross.
Too bad, Sweden. Shit Canada fans though.
How do you nearly invent something?
In this context, they probably invented skis but didn't think to aim downhill and went for a massive walk instead.
I did think about that when I posted, and was a little bit worried until I remembered that the last time England, the inventors of football, won a trophy was in 1966. I have to congratulate them on their second place in the 1998 King Hassan II International Cup Tournament, though.
Oh yes, Norway is famed for its great plains and general straight-forwardness
I didn't realise The Lift Walking Dartsathon was such a sensitive topic to noggies.
Anyway....
Anyway....