Beijing Olympics 2022: Discussion and Update

[beijingwalker]

Goodbye, Beijing. Now it's Hangzhou Time, China has major sports events one after another

 

[Beidou2020]

The Chinese logic here is stupid. The IOC awards gold, silver, and bronze medals. Therefore, you have to assign value to each medal. Thats why a point system is the best metric to determine overall country performance.

The rest is all claptrap.

This is just getting sad by this manchild.

 

[GiantPanda]

If you need to give weight to silver and bronze, it certainly should NOT be 3-2-1 points.

Silver would be worth 1/1000th of a gold and bronze would be 1/1001 of a gold. Yes, you are given a participation medal and acknowledged. But either medal means you are one of those who lost.

Even with weighting, 9 golds alone should always be on top of 8 golds and any number of silvers and bronzes.

Only when both have 9 golds should the silver and bronzes come into play.

 

[REhorror]

Congratulations to China for surpassing the US in gold medal.
Truly a feat of a Winter Olympics superpower!

 

[bobsm]

Even the "land of the free" awards its athletes based on types of medals. That is, $37,500 for every gold medal won, $22,500 for silver and $15,000 for bronze. Yet there are some here in this forum want the rest of us to believe all medals are of the same worth. LOL.

Congratulations to mainland Chinese athletes, for beating out many traditionally strong winter olympics countries.


How much athletes at Beijing Olympics get for winning medals

Here's how much money athletes at the Beijing Olympics earn for winning medals

Team USA, for example, rewards its athletes $37,500 for every gold medal won, $22,500 for silver and $15,000 for bronze.

www.cnbc.com

 

[REhorror]

Man, curling is my favorite sports this Winter Olympics, too bad the japanese women curling team failed to beat the brit/scot team.

They still got silver, but what a devastating defeat in the last match.

 

[F-22Raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1495254611019534339

Hell of a race by Diggins! Congrats!

 

[F-22Raptor]

If you need to give weight to silver and bronze, it certainly should NOT be 3-2-1 points.

Silver would be worth 1/1000th of a gold and bronze would be 1/1001 of a gold. Yes, you are given a participation medal and acknowledged. But either medal means you are one of those who lost.

Even with weighting, 9 golds alone should always be on top of 8 golds and any number of silvers and bronzes.

Only when both have 9 golds should the silver and bronzes come into play.

Yes, it should be based on a weighted point system. Even if you base it on a 6-4-2 scale the US had a better performance overall. If only gold mattered, silver and bronze would not exist. Since they are awarded, they should be assigned value.

The US clearly had a better performance overall than the Chinese. There’s no doubt about it. Then you have to factor in a home Olympics for China which provides a boost in medals. Will they be able to perform in Italy 2026?

And the Russians will finish with less golds than China, yet with 32 medals. No one believes the Chinese outperformed Russia with only 15 medals.

 

[MH.Yang]

The Chinese logic here is stupid. The IOC awards gold, silver, and bronze medals. Therefore, you have to assign value to each medal. Thats why a point system is the best metric to determine overall country performance.

The rest is all claptrap.

Because God created the world in seven days.
I suggest calculating the score according to this proportion:
Gold = 49 points, silver = 7 points, bronze = 1 point.

 

[beijingwalker]

Hahaha. Didn't USA lead China by a puny 1 gold medal during Tokyo Olympics (despite having sent hundreds more athletes)? I guess it's pay back... (Hope it stays that way for 1 more day...)

China secured top 3 in gold medal rankings, beating US by one gold medal.

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[beijingwalker]

Winter Olympics 2022 Medal Count - Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Table Medal​

 

[REhorror]

Overall, it was a great Olympics, it does remind me of Tokyo Olympics due to all the music, haha.
They play the chinese version of Auld Lang Syne in one of the curling final, it was great.

 

[Beidou2020]

China finishes on 3rd place in the medal table ahead of traditional Winter Olympics power US.

@F-22Raptor @KAL-EL

 

[F-22Raptor]

China finishes on 3rd place in the medal table ahead of traditional Winter Olympics power US.

@F-22Raptor @KAL-EL

The US finished with 25 medals , the Russians with 32. China with 15. Both countries outperformed the Chinese at this Olympics.

 

[Beidou2020]

The US finished with 25 medals , the Russians with 32. China with 15. Both countries outperformed the Chinese at this Olympics.

Reading the global news outlets, everyone is saying China finished 3rd and beat the US.

“China celebrated a record gold medal haul as the Beijing Winter Olympics concluded Sunday, narrowly beating out chief geopolitical rival the United States to rank third in the medal count.” - AFP

https://twitter.com/x/status/1495122076310585344