Board 8 > Settle this debate

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Olympics related. Have only watched 1 basketball game but i used to kinda care about the olympics

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Golds, other medals as tiebreakers

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Alternately I could see an argument for WEIGHTED Total Medals where Gold/Silver/Bronze are worth 5/2/1 or something

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Jakyl25 posted...

Golds, other medals as tiebreakers

Jakyl25 posted...

Alternately I could see an argument for WEIGHTED Total Medals where Gold/Silver/Bronze are worth 5/2/1 or something

The latter was my first thought but the former works too.

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Weighted total. Otherwise why bother even giving out silvers and bronzes.

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FFDragon posted...

Weighted total. Otherwise why bother even giving out silvers and bronzes.

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doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile

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I think it's pretty silly not to celebrate the 2nd and 3rd best in the entire world of something.

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Waluigi1 posted...

I think it's pretty silly not to celebrate the 2nd and 3rd best in the entire world of something.

there are only a matter of seconds between "best in the world" and "never heard of them"

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clearly Fast and Furious rules are how the Olympics were always meant to be judged

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FFDragon posted...

Weighted total. Otherwise why bother even giving out silvers and bronzes.

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Jakyl25 posted...

Alternately I could see an argument for WEIGHTED Total Medals where Gold/Silver/Bronze are worth 5/2/1 or something

Our newspaper used to do something like that back when I was a kid. I think it was just 3/2/1 and a point total.

3/2/1 point breakdown

While we're at it let's get rid of all the garbage events like badminton and shooting, and half the swimming medals

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10/7/3 distribution

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Weighted total with G/S/B worth 6/3/2 (or equivalently 1, 1/2, 1/3)

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People saying weighted total are bloody cowards it's golds obviously don't play

turbopuns3 posted...

People saying weighted total are bloody cowards it's golds obviously don't play

If a country had 5 golds, no silvers, no bronzes, and another country had 0 Golds but 10 silvers and 10 bronzes, country #2 needs to be recognized as more dominant. Having a gold medal is great for an individual, but when looking at teams, total medal count often tells the true story

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I only count people who win laurel wreathes.

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WRs only.

Just a gold? You lost to history tbqh.

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Golds only is silly since you could end up with a one country having 6 golds and nothing else, and another country having 5 golds, 12 silvers, and 14 bronzes, and pretty much nobody should argue the first country is better.

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

If a country had 5 golds, no silvers, no bronzes, and another country had 0 Golds but 10 silvers and 10 bronzes, country #2 needs to be recognized as more dominant. Having a gold medal is great for an individual, but when looking at teams, total medal count often tells the true story

Don't play

I'm amused at people pointing out specific numeric examples of how medal distribution could occur

Guys...I get it. I'm being facetious about only golds mattering because I can. That's the extent of it

I been drankin'

Oh, I was just replying in general, not specifically to you. It's all good.

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Golds obviously matter more though lol

StealThisSheen posted...

Oh, I was just replying in general, not specifically to you. It's all good.

Yeah you can safely ignore me I'm purely shitposting atm

If you ain't first, you're last.

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FFDragon posted...

why bother even giving out silvers and bronzes.

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Waluigi1 posted...

I think it's pretty silly not to celebrate the 2nd and 3rd best in the entire world of something.

if youre not first youre last

Agree with weighted. I'm even okay if we weight the gold fairly heavily, but silvers and bronzes should be more than just tiebreaker.

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BlAcK TuRtLe posted...

While we're at it let's get rid of all the garbage events like badminton and shooting, and half the swimming medals

lol

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I mean, if we're going to say who "won" the Olympics, it shouldn't be simply who has the best swim team. If the Olympics is 40% swimming medals and 60% other sports, that's a little unfair. I do find it a little funny that some swimmer can swim two lengths of a pool in under a minute, wait half a day for the next swim-two-lengths race and have another crack at it, while some people play in a tournament that spans literally the entire length of the Olympics just for a single chance at a medal...which could be hijacked by a single mistake by a teammate.

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SwiftyDC posted...

If you ain't first, you're last.

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IMO there's far too much of a weight placed on the medal table and which country 'wins' etc, I like to view the Olympics in terms of the people succeeding rather than the countries they're from. I think it'd be much better if we were encouraged to celebrate the best athletes from all over the world and create more of a community vibe breaking cultural barriers etc, rather than it being just another exercise in nationalism.

And it'll always be USA, China etc at the top of the tables as they have the most people and most money, where's the fun in seeing rich countries dominate things.

Also agree with everything azuarc says, the medal table is ridiculously weighted towards certain sports, most obviously swimming.

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That said, I'd choose gold over medal count easily. Medal count makes it much more of a 'who has the most athletes' award, at least with golds smaller countries can get more of a shot and it's truly defining the best in the world.

And if we're talking about cutting sports, Horse Dancing needs to go before anything else.

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azuarc posted...

I mean, if we're going to say who "won" the Olympics, it shouldn't be simply who has the best swim team. If the Olympics is 40% swimming medals and 60% other sports, that's a little unfair. I do find it a little funny that some swimmer can swim two lengths of a pool in under a minute, wait half a day for the next swim-two-lengths race and have another crack at it, while some people play in a tournament that spans literally the entire length of the Olympics just for a single chance at a medal...which could be hijacked by a single mistake by a teammate.

Precisely. Swimming should be cut down to freestyle at 4 or so different lengths, like track running is.

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I agree with weighted

Gold = 1M points
Silver = 1K points
Bronze = 1 point

yeah weighted

gold is 420 points
silver is 69 points
bronze is 3.50 points

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LeonhartFour posted...

there are only a matter of seconds between "best in the world" and "never heard of them"

to be fair these aren't mutually exclusive. I haven't heard of like 98% of the gold winners either.

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Total medals, just to piss off the "if you ain't first you're last" people

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FFDragon posted...

to be fair these aren't mutually exclusive. I haven't heard of like 98% of the gold winners either.

Well yeah, 95% of Olympic events are basically anonymous.

But who finished second behind Usain Bolt in any of those 100m races?

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That's also cheating. If you are like the most dominate athlete ever in something, like a Bolt or a Phelps you transcend the Olympics itself. You are THE runner. THE swimmer.

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FFDragon posted...

That's also cheating. If you are like the most dominate athlete ever in something, like a Bolt or a Phelps you transcend the Olympics itself. You are THE runner. THE swimmer.

But that's the point. Those other guys are almost as good and we don't know who any of them are!

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LeonhartFour posted...

there are only a matter of seconds between "best in the world" and "never heard of them"

there's only 1 second between Tyreek Hill and Tom Brady

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Leonhart4 posted...

But that's the point. Those other guys are almost as good and we don't know who any of them are!

I read an interview with the guy who beat Mayweather by decision during the Atlanta Olympics. He vanished into obscurity while Mayweather went on to be, well, Mayweather.

Well, I think it's a bit different for sports that matter outside the Olympics, like boxing. Being the heavyweight champ is more important than being a gold medalist boxer.

Same thing for something like basketball. Carmelo Anthony has won gold medals for Team USA, but it's barely a factor for most people when judging how good he has been as a player.

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*At today's prices that means the gold medal would be worth around $800 if you melted it down, while the silver would be worth about $450 and the bronze around $5.*

should this also be how each medal is weighted for countries

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The Tokyo medals are made of recycled electronics so they aren't worth that much based on the materials.

andylt posted...

And if we're talking about cutting sports, Horse Dancing needs to go before anything else.

Now this I can agree on.

The fact that wrestling, one of the original sports was almost cut but dressage remains is so dumb.

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COUNT THE MEDALS

oh wait this isn't a Kamen Rider topic

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Weighted based on event.

100m > Speed climbing/horsing


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well the US took the lead in golds on the last day so we won both most golds and total medals

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