Weighing Olympic Gold
Publication Date
8-22-2008
Document Type
Article
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Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Olympics, Gold medals, Ranking, China
Abstract
Is the U.S. winning the Olympics?
The United States (or more precisely, the U.S. news media) have unilaterally chosen to rank countries’ overall performance according to which nation has won the most total medals. Not surprisingly, under this standard, the U.S. may come out on top. The media of most other countries, however, rank nations according to the number of gold medals only, which puts China far ahead.
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Robert Hardaway, Opinion, Weighing Olympic Gold, L.A. Times (Aug. 22, 2008), https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-22-oe-hardaway22-story.html.