I can't believe we don't weight medals for Olympics medal count rankings (hexbear.net)

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You're telling me team USA has thirty more medals than team China and that counts for nothing? That just doesn't make any sense to me

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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There are a bunch of dumbass sports that no one gives a shit about like equestrian and golf and sailing lol.

There’s a reason why most of the highly covered sports are sports that theoretically can be mastered by anybody in the world regardless of financial situation and upbringing - aquatics, athletics, soccer, etc. Get rid of the bougie nonsense, and I imagine the US drops down by a couple dozen medals

[-] machiabelly@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Athletics and swimming represent roughly half of all US medals. Athletics, swimming, gymnastics, and wrestling respresent 75 or 80% of all medals. The bougie medals, equestrian, golf, sailing, fencing? rowing? tennis? represent 9/122 by my count.

also the us literally won gold in womens soccer. And got a medal in every track and field relay.

Swimming and athletics dominate the medal counts because they have 100-com different events, just like speed skating in the winter olympics.