I shared the Paris Olympics 2024 Final Medals Tally on the website hubpages.com and it attracted many interesting comments/replies from many fellow writers (both the US and Australian writers).
As the comments are both intelligent and informative, I thought of sharing some of their comments here.
"Gold is the norm...if you are Chinese.
If American, the total number of medals is what really counts.
If Australia, they have about 2 medals per million people, while America has only about 1 per 3 million. Medals per capita is how to choose the best country." - By Wilderness
"Countries usually use the stats that best suit their achievements. Mostly they are ranked in the number of gold achieved, but the USA often chooses total medal count, and Australia both the number of gold and total medals per capita." - By John Hansen
Yes, the US uses total tallies. The US does have more people and athletes, but also a strong sports culture, and four seasons across a broad geography that support training – especially, in summer. Yet ironically, per capita, we also have the least amount of people who could ever qualify for the Olympics. I’ve always preferred the Winter Games (figure skating/ice dancing are my favs), and I have to say it was a pleasure to see the US figure skating team members in Paris last week finally receive the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Gold Medals in exchange for the Silver after waiting for more than two years.
- By Genna East
