Comments on: The Real Final Medal Tally http://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/ Crossing Borders Crossing Cultures Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:20:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Reginald Johnsonhttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15823 Reginald Johnson Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:45:53 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15823 China kicked our butts this time! China kicked our butts this time!

]]> By: Patrixhttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15164 Patrix Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:38:50 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15164 <strong>aanthirtyeights</strong>, honestly I wouldn't give much importance to the GDP analysis because today many professional athletes train outside their country and simply represent them at the Olympics (Kristi Coventry for Zimbabwe, Cavic for Serbia, etc.) There are few countries like China that take special interest in spending resources on each athlete. And even then it might not be correlated with their GDP. Because countries that give too much importance to Olympic medals spend disproportionate amounts in training their athletes. aanthirtyeights, honestly I wouldn’t give much importance to the GDP analysis because today many professional athletes train outside their country and simply represent them at the Olympics (Kristi Coventry for Zimbabwe, Cavic for Serbia, etc.)

There are few countries like China that take special interest in spending resources on each athlete. And even then it might not be correlated with their GDP. Because countries that give too much importance to Olympic medals spend disproportionate amounts in training their athletes.

]]> By: aandthirtyeightshttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15160 aandthirtyeights Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:49:37 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15160 I really think one must normalise for per capita GDP. That gives a better measure of worth of the medals. Say a country has a population of 5 and a GDP of 5000. It wins 5 golds. Another country has a population of 10000 and a GDP of 100000. It also wins five golds. In the latter case, the country has significantly lesser resources to spend on each athlete, whereas in the former case, there are more resources. I really think one must normalise for per capita GDP. That gives a better measure of worth of the medals. Say a country has a population of 5 and a GDP of 5000. It wins 5 golds. Another country has a population of 10000 and a GDP of 100000. It also wins five golds. In the latter case, the country has significantly lesser resources to spend on each athlete, whereas in the former case, there are more resources.

]]> By: Comparing Olympics medal count by nation's population and wealthhttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15143 Comparing Olympics medal count by nation's population and wealth Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:27:54 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15143 [...] If you are here for the 2008 medals tally, I’ve written it up here on basis of medals won as well as normalized by population and GDP. Please Stand for the National [...] [...] If you are here for the 2008 medals tally, I’ve written it up here on basis of medals won as well as normalized by population and GDP. Please Stand for the National [...]

]]> By: Olympic Medal Count by Countryhttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15142 Olympic Medal Count by Country Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:25:48 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15142 [...] If you are here for the 2008 medals tally, I’ve written it up here on basis of medals won as well as normalized by population and GDP. Hitler’s Art Collection [...] [...] If you are here for the 2008 medals tally, I’ve written it up here on basis of medals won as well as normalized by population and GDP. Hitler’s Art Collection [...]

]]> By: ArvindBlogshttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15141 ArvindBlogs Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:28:53 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15141 Patrix, well said. Since NBC had started to count this way right from the beginning of this Olympics though not done previously suggests that they always knew that China would blow them away in these Olympics. And if you thought that this was one way the Americans were interpreting the medal tally, check this one out from a Yahoo sports columnist. http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Update-The-REAL-Olympic-medal-count?urn=oly,102540 The words of the Jamaican Olympic Association ring true in this context as to why some people in the world don't feel that others can be that good. Patrix, well said. Since NBC had started to count this way right from the beginning of this Olympics though not done previously suggests that they always knew that China would blow them away in these Olympics.

And if you thought that this was one way the Americans were interpreting the medal tally, check this one out from a Yahoo sports columnist.
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Update-The-REAL-Olympic-medal-count?urn=oly,102540

The words of the Jamaican Olympic Association ring true in this context as to why some people in the world don’t feel that others can be that good.

]]> By: Patrixhttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15137 Patrix Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:46:25 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15137 <strong>Supremus</strong>, I don't recall seeing that one but yup, after all the 'Go World' and 'The World Comes Together', it is still an intensely competitive sporting event where winning is still everything. Supremus, I don’t recall seeing that one but yup, after all the ‘Go World’ and ‘The World Comes Together’, it is still an intensely competitive sporting event where winning is still everything.

]]> By: Supremushttp://www.ipatrix.com/2699/the-real-final-medal-tally/#comment-15136 Supremus Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:43:00 +0000 http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2699#comment-15136 I don't know which olympics was this, but Nike came out with an ad saying "You didn't win the silver. You missed the Gold" or something to that effect. I would love to see that ad again now. I don’t know which olympics was this, but Nike came out with an ad saying “You didn’t win the silver. You missed the Gold” or something to that effect. I would love to see that ad again now.

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