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Can you name the Top 5 Medal Winning Teams in Each Summer Olympics?
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aheig82
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Top five teams by medal count in each Summer Olympic Games. Note: In the event of a tie for fifth place, country with more gold medals listed. Don't forget about countries that no longer exist.
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1896 Athens
46
20
13
11
7
1900 Paris
101
47
30
15
12
1904 St. Louis
239
13
9
6
4
1908 London
146
47
25
19
16
1912 Stockholm
65
63
41
26
25
1920 Antwerp
95
64
43
41
36
1924 Paris
99
38
37
34
29
1928 Amsterdam
56
31
25
25
21
1932 Los Angeles
103
36
25
23
20
1936 Berlin
89
56
22
20
19
19
1948 London
84
44
29
27
27
1952 Helsinki
76
71
42
35
24
1956 Melbourne
98
74
35
26
26
1960 Rome
103
71
42
36
22
1964 Tokyo
96
90
50
29
27
1968 Mexico City
107
91
52
26
25
1972 Munich
99
94
66
40
35
1976 Montreal
125
94
90
39
27
1980 Moscow
195
126
41
32
32
1984 Los Angeles
174
59
53
44
37
1988 Seoul
132
102
94
40
35
1992 Barcelona
112
108
82
54
31
1996 Atlanta
101
65
63
50
41
2000 Sydney
94
89
59
58
56
2004 Athens
101
93
63
49
49
2008 Beijing
110
100
73
47
46
2012 London
104
87
82
65
44
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Top 5 Medal Winning Teams in Each Summer Olympics Quiz
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jayman
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Jul 14th, 2012 at 12:43 GMT
10 points
Curious to know the story behind the 5th place team in 1900.
exlibris
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Jul 14th, 2012 at 16:43 GMT
5 points
maybe remind people to guess era-appropriate nations (got Soviet Union, forgot about the Germanys). either way, great quiz.
Lauro
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Jul 14th, 2012 at 17:05 GMT
5 points
@jayman: Early Olympic Games allowed for individuals in a team to be from different nations. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) now groups their results together under the mixed team designation (IOC code ZZX). During the 1900 Summer Olympics, several teams comprising international members won 12 medals in 7 different events.
cls121389
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 00:53 GMT
1 point
If US is accepted for United States then USSR should be accepted for Soviet Union.
aheig82
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 01:52 GMT
3 points
USSR is accepted for the Soviet Union
canadagraphs
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 03:17 GMT
4 points
Got 130. As far as I am concerned, I got 130/130 It says Tp 5 medal winning COUNTRIES. "5th in 1900 is not a country.
aheig82
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 03:49 GMT
4 points
Since the "Mixed Team" and "Unified Team" are causing confusion, I'll rename the quiz to "Top 5 Medal Winning Teams"... although I don't think it'll make much of a difference when people are trying to guess who they are.
wasteoflawtime
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 06:34 GMT
9 points
aheig82, Like the winter olympic one, I think you should just permit any of the individual countries that are part of Mixed Team and Unified team to trigger those answers. Just my opinion.
Ulkomaalainen
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 18:28 GMT
1 point
About the "Unified Team" maybe. It just was USSR under another name and the individual countries participating in it "supported" it. The "Mixed Team" is something different, though. Can't really argue for their inclusion. Also I wouldn't allow individual members for "Unified Team", since then you could argue that Russia should give USSR and Germany both West and East and similar changes.
camly
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Jul 15th, 2012 at 19:20 GMT
2 points
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_team_at_the_1900_Summer_Olympics
diving
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 01:24 GMT
2 points
West Germany is the same country, government, and team as modern Germany. It's official name never changed, it only added states formerly part of the East.
aheig82
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 01:32 GMT
3 points
The IOC has West Germany and Germany as two different designations (FRG is West, GDR is East Germany, GER is Germany)
Fuzzi1712
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 09:48 GMT
1 point
You got 130 out of 131 answers correct...what was the mixed team???
AdamL
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 14:51 GMT
-1 points
I always found it odd that the US uses the total medals count instead of the gold count that - I think - every other country uses. Total medal count implies that a bronze is as valuable as a gold when that's clearly not the case. China would have topped the medal table in Beijing using gold count but came 2nd in total medal count.
SOAR21
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 17:16 GMT
5 points
I don't know what you mean by "use". When watching the Olympics in the states NBC always shows the two stats one after another. Total medal count, and then gold medal count. It's not like our record in either is particularly better than the other over history, and we just refuse to accept the flip side.
ClintT13
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Jul 16th, 2012 at 22:20 GMT
2 points
@AdamL: I'm not sure what you mean. As th eprevious poster said, both numbers are reporter. In fact, there's usually one graphic on NBC that shows the gold, silver, bronze and total medal count for every team.
AdamL
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Jul 17th, 2012 at 18:20 GMT
2 points
@SOAR @Clint, fair enough - I was under the impression that total medal count was the only one used by US media, but obviously I'm mistaken!
m0ckers
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Jul 18th, 2012 at 06:50 GMT
0 points
Americans do tend to rank by total medal count first and then by gold. The point of the Olympics is to win the gold. Silver and Bronze are just runner up prizes. No-one remembers the athletes who win multiple bronze medals. It'd be interesting to see this quiz by gold medals only.
SexualCamel
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Jul 18th, 2012 at 22:45 GMT
7 points
Kyrgyzstan needs to up the ante on their athletics program.
poiu
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Jul 18th, 2012 at 23:57 GMT
4 points
It's interesting to see how the host country gets less and less medals as time progresses (i.e, Greece won the 1896 Olympics, France the 1900 ones, etc.), probably because travel to the host country from other countries became easier.
eja82
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Jul 20th, 2012 at 13:57 GMT
1 point
It would also be cool to see the percentage of total/gold medals won since the number of events has increased dramatically over time.
alphadog
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Jul 21st, 2012 at 03:37 GMT
1 point
Am I the only one who typed "Kyrgyzstan" knowing that it wouldn't be up there, while simultaneously holding on to some delusional hope that @aheig82 had brilliantly placed Kyrgyzstan's medal count from each Olympics as a bonus answer?
GorillaDust
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Aug 1st, 2012 at 22:01 GMT
2 points
The 1904 Olympics look like they were not much fun to watch for the other 195 countries...
Brisvegan
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Aug 7th, 2012 at 14:35 GMT
1 point
Similarly, I'm not used to seeing the medal tally rated by total medals. I expected these to be in the format that ranks by type of medal (i.e. most Gold, further filtered by number of silver and bronze) and wonder how different the list would if it was ranked that way.
jshorne
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Aug 17th, 2012 at 17:38 GMT
-2 points
Commies dont win medals like they used to.
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