Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Medal table system seems a little odd. No complaints…just observing. Clearly the USA and China are way in front, beyond that we actually finished with the third highest number of medals (65) but finished 7th behind Japan (45), Australia (53), France (64) and MA’s lot (34) because the medal table is actually a Gold Medal table. As I say, no complaints and we did very well, as did the Dutch, but is that the best way of recording Olympic achievement?
Different countries use, from what I can see, one of two methods for determining the table. There's the one which appears to be the one mostly used where it's a "Gold medal" table. Equal number of golds? Then you look at Silver. Level on Silver too? You look at Bronze. The USA and a couple of other countries use the number of medals in total as the measuring stick.

As with AF, things like Yee's finish to the triathlon, Hassan's sprint at the end of the women's marathon, Femke Bol's last leg of the mixed 4x400 relay, the men's 100m final where there was just 0.12 of a second between 1st and 8th (last). Finishers 4 to 8 all recorded the fastest ever time for their position in the race. A couple of the rowing events where there was half a gnat's knacker between 1st and 2nd. One where NL held off GB, 2 strokes more and it would have been the other way round and a GB win over NL where NL led all the way and were overtaken with the very last stroke of the race.