with the official olympic medal table, i assume that it is compiled firstly on the number of gold medals, then a mix of the silver and bronze medals? as on the official olympics website, and on the bbc site also, the table is assumed on this theory.
whereas on espn, sports illustrated etc. in the states, they focus on the TOTAL medal haul. is this because they know they will win the most medals (gold, silver and bronze) and thus ensuring they finish (in their minds) top of the medal table. because as it stands at 13:41 CET, china lead the table in the worlds eys, but team usa lead the way in those rose tinted lenses that the americans wear.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Beijing Olympics
I have been watching the Olympics these days. One thing I noticed is that the US media counts the TOTAL medals in their medal table, while the rest of the world count the gold medels. It's also interesting to find other people have similar observations as I do. A message left on BBC online is about this.
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Hi Lin,
That post may have come from a paid blogger. Also, there was an article in the Washington Post about the different methods to rank countries that clearly noted the US media bias. Since the amount of gold medals was always clearly listed i don't think it was dishonest.
Let me know what you think about this article which is about Chinese being paid 5 mao per comment they post online:
http://feer.com/essays/2008/august/chinas-guerrilla-war-for-the-web
Mike
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