Olympic Medal Count by Country, Color & Event

[Cachoo]

I put a NYT piece earlier in the thread about other ways to look at the medals. They don't go by gold medals first but I thought some of it interesting. Here is excluding swimming and track:

China	37	23	15	75
United States	18	20	26	64
France	12	24	20	56
Britain	12	14	24	50
Japan	19	11	13	43
Italy	10	11	10	31
South Korea	13	9	9	31
Australia	10	8	9	27
Germany	10	10	6	26
Netherlands	12	6	7	25

 

[Cachoo]

Here is the top ten of countries with a population under 10 million:

New Zealand	10	7	3	20
Hungary	6	7	6	19
Denmark	2	2	5	9
Switzerland	1	2	5	8
Norway	4	1	3	8
Bulgaria	3	1	3	7
Croatia	2	2	3	7
Georgia	3	3	1	7
Israel	1	5	1	7
Ireland	4	0	3	7

 

[Cachoo]

And here are the top finishers in mixed events:

Germany	5	2	0	7
Britain	2	0	5	7
China	4	2	1	7
United States	1	5	1	7
South Korea	1	2	2	5
Japan	0	2	2	4
France	1	1	1	3
Australia	0	1	2	3
Spain	1	0	1	2
Italy	2	0	0	2

 

[ballettmaus]

I put a NYT piece earlier in the thread about other ways to look at the medals. They don't go by gold medals first but I thought some of it interesting. Here is excluding swimming and track:

As track is kind of the original Olympics, it makes to no sense to me to exclude it. If anything, I'd exclude everything else.

 

[Cachoo]

As track is kind of the original Olympics, it makes to no sense to me to exclude it. If anything, I'd exclude everything else.

I wanted to see where China was on the list. They made a concerted effort starting twenty years ago to identify Olympic sports that aren't necessarily as popular as the pool or the track and focus efforts in medaling in those sports. I think it has worked for them very well. I'm not an advocate for doing things that way...just curious about results.

 

[CantALoop]

Can we get a what-if medal count without athletes who tested positive for trimetazidine and were banned like other athletes who like to share drinks with their family

 

[On My Own]

Does it include the athletes who were allowed to compete in exchange for information and also those whose coaching teams were spying on their opponents?

 

[Cachoo]

Does it include the athletes who were allowed to compete in exchange for information and also those whose coaching teams were spying on their opponents?

You've lost me but I am certainly interested in any information you wish to share.

 

[allezfred]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1822880516770496621

 

[A.H.Black]

I put a NYT piece earlier in the thread about other ways to look at the medals. They don't go by gold medals first but I thought some of it interesting. Here is excluding swimming and track:

Now redo it and also exclude diving. Did you exclude swimming and track because those are the 2 areas where the US is strongest? If so China's strongest disciplines should also be excluded - maybe table tennis too (although the rest of the world seems to catching up to them).

I liked that article, thanks for posting.

 

[Cachoo]

Now redo it and also exclude diving. Did you exclude swimming and track because those are the 2 areas where the US is strongest? If so China's strongest disciplines should also be excluded - maybe table tennis too (although the rest of the world seems to catching up to them).

I liked that article, thanks for posting.

The NYT didn't offer that edit but I see they won 8 golds in diving and 5 golds in table tennis.

 

[On My Own]

I think we should also exclude wrestling for Japan and archery for South Korea.

 

[A.H.Black]

The NYT didn't offer that edit but I see they won 8 golds in diving and 5 golds in table tennis.

Saw that too.

 

[allezfred]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1822718327682109606

Well done to Albania, Dominica, Cape Verde, Saint Lucia and the Olympic Refugee Team on their first ever medals!

 

[allezfred]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1823378677796679959

 

[allezfred]

There has been a revision to the top of the medal table.

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Hard luck USA and China.