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Fools gold: How to land on top of the Olympic medal board
Australian Community Media
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8/2/2024
The Daily Advertiser's Tahlia Sinclair explains the different ways medal tallies are being calculated at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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Australia is winning the Olympics, or is the US, or maybe Fiji?
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Media outlets across the globe are calculating the different ways that their Olympians are winning medals.
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While traditionally we only count the gold medals won by any country, America has taken a slightly different choice.
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Focusing on their entire medal count, that means their bronze medals and their golds,
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the US have inflated themselves to first position on most of their charts.
00:28
But they're not the only ones doing some funky dunky things.
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Looking over in Europe, Euronews has been spotted calculating the entire continent of golds into one table.
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Per capita is the other way that we're seeing medals calculated.
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That is, what's the population size of a country and how does it impact their chances of a medal?
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Small countries like Fiji and Slovenia have rocketed up this calculation.
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Taking on the American system, Fiji would top that list.
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But if we're only taking into account gold, Slovenia is the smallest nation to have won an event so far.
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Another way that we could look at this is, what about the girls?
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Australia's seven gold medals so far have all been won by women, and while we would love to see some men up on the podium,
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that's pretty cool if you ask me.
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While we're sure that inevitably the US and their fantastic track and field athletes will pip us a little bit at the post,
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for now, it's pretty cool to have more medals than them.
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Maybe just don't tell them that we're making fun of them though.
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