Aug 23 2008
∞
Which country is top of the Olympic medal table?
Well if you live in the US of A the answer would be the USA. But if you live anywhere in the rest of the world it would be China.
Apparently to protect Americans’ fragile sense of national pride a number of US media outlets order the table by the total of all medals won. However, in the rest of the world the table is ordered by number of gold medals, followed by the number of silver then bronze.
Compare the USA’s NBC medal tally, with the Australian’s Sydney Morning Herald medal tally, the UK’s Times’s medal tally, or even the official medal tally.
