OT - Will USA win most gold medals?
For those of you who are rooting for China to win the most gold medals, you are likely to be disappointed. Why? Incoming...
As of this writing (12pm eastern time) the US is within 2 gold medals of China (China 38 to USA 36.) We must now look at the remaining gold medal matches left in the olympics. The USA, over the next 36 hours will participate in 4 gold-medal matches (women's bball, women's indoor volleyball and two men's boxing gold medals.) The Chinese are not participating in any future gold medal matches. China finished with 38 gold medals.
The USA women's bball team is an auto-gold medal win. So, it's really going to come down to the USA women's volleyball match, and those 2 USA boxing matches. If the US wins any one of those 3, they tie China for final gold medal count, and will have defeated China by 20+ total medals. If US wins 2 of those remaining 3 gold-medal matches, USA wins total gold medals and of course total medal count.
As of this moment, I'd rather be the USA than China when it comes to the end, and we know who won the most gold medals. Proof of the remaining events:
https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/oly…
"It’s most gold medals that determines who wins the Olympics"
According to who? The IOC publishes medal counts and sorts by gold medal count, but its by-laws specifically say this is not a country ranking.
Good work greymarch. Was interested in this and could not find anywhere. Well done and thank you !!
Man you really gotta hate your country if you are rooting for China.
Unless you are Chinese of course. ツ
Cool story, bro, but there’s only one man whose sports predictions I’ll trust as gospel… get me THE KNOWLEDGE
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I'm of the mindset that it doesn't matter at all who has the most. The things I find fun about the Olympics is stuff like the US vs Iran playing a game of basketball instead of engaging in nuclear war. Also that Tunisian swimmer and Philippine weightlifter winning were cool moments.
August 7th, 2021 at 11:44 PM ^
An American woman is probably going to win the gold in the cycling track omnium as well, which is currently ongoing.
August 8th, 2021 at 12:31 AM ^
USA 38 CHINA 38 as of right now. No idea what events are left…
August 8th, 2021 at 12:40 AM ^
With wins by the women’s basketball team (their seventh straight gold medal) and Jennifer Valente in track cycling, the USA has tied China for the lead in gold medals with 38 and continues to lead China in total medals (110-87).
The USA women are playing Brazil for the gold medal in volleyball and boxers Keyshawn Davis (lightweight) and Richard Torrez, Jr. (super heavyweight) will be fighting for gold medals later today. Davis against Cuban Andy Cruz and Torrez against Bakhodir Jalolov from Uzbekistan. China has a woman competing for the gold medal in the middleweight division.
Excellent update, thanks! Yes, I am watching this volleyball match with you just to assure a gold tie/ win over China. Looking good so far, up 1 game to 0 and up 8-5 in game two. USA!!
Now up 2 games to 0, one more for the ??!
If we win, here is the updated breakdown vs China:
Gold medals: USA 39>38
Total medals: USA 111>87 (regardless of volleyball outcome)
A dominant women’s ? win by USA ?? over Brazil ?? clinches another GOLD! ?????????????????????????????????????
Please share: USA now guaranteed of winning most gold medals and total medals. I want to personally thank @DanWetzel for writing the dumbest, most jealousy-dripping article of the entire olympics. Wetzel made a fool of himself. Well done, Dan! https://sports.yahoo.com/sorry-america-chinas-leading-the-real-olympic-medal-count-081228981.html
But Wetzel just wants to be cool - so badly! And making fun of America is cool, right?!
Wetzel sucks.
Man, Olympic boxing manages to take an exciting sport and make it awfully boring. That “super” heavyweight fight had one round that wasn’t just clinch and lay around. With three rounds a fight has massive incentive to get one good round and stall.
I get that you really can’t have dudes fighting 15 rounds each day in a tournament, which makes me wonder why they still bother doing it. It keeps the old idiocy of amateurism in the Olympics alive because very few pro fighters will fight. Nobody believes that the vast majority of boxers winning medals are actually the best boxers in the world.
Chinese boxer lost. That's a wrap. USA will end with the most golds and the most overall.
The greatest country in the history of the planet is still on top of the athletic world.
Ultimately, our diversity, freedom to choose, and economic engine are our greatest strengths despite what anybody says.
Lots to do, but through all the messiness of democracy in a country with every culture, race, religion from every corner of the globe, we always get it done. The dream is still alive and we should all be thankful for it. Go USA!
Great country in the history of the planet? Eh. We can be proud without the hyperbole.
But is our nation great for athletics? Absolutely. Many of the world's best athletes go to college in the United States because our universities -- in addition to producing world-class talent in a variety of industries -- provide the opportunity to compete against other talented athletes on a regular basis AND dedicate a ton of resources to athletic excellence.
We also have one of the most (if not THE most) geographically and culturally diverse countries in the world (and maybe in all of history actually), which lends itself to excelling in a myriad of athletic disciplines. Heck, in California alone you can surf in the AM and then practice your downhill skiing later that same day.
My point? I'm very proud of our nation and I agree with you for the most part. Are we the greatest nation ever? Dunno. But we certainly have a lot to be thankful for.
Go USA and Go Blue!
....also, Jersey pride in half of our women's dominant 4x400 relay coming from my adopted state.
August 9th, 2021 at 11:25 PM ^
Please name a great power (at any time in history) that did more good than the US.
August 8th, 2021 at 10:39 AM ^
Just a reminder that these medal totals are subject to change over the next 10 years of biological sample retesting. And they definitely will change, some countries will lose 1 or 2 medals (probably including the US), and one country will probably lose a lot of medals (not China).
So let's revisit the subject in 2031 when the final totals are confirmed.
(We can finally talk about the London 2012 medal numbers now! That was when the retesting period was 8 years, so now we know who "won".)
