Its coming down to the wire on which country will take the overall medal count. The US press seems to focus on the total medal count while the local Chinese media concentrates on the number of gold medals won where clearly the host country has a huge advantage. Much has been made about the US and China competing in separate Olympics as there is little/no overlap in the medal events, unlike in the olden days when we battled the Soviets in all the major sports. But someone's got to devise some sort of BCS strength of schedule scoring system as they've got in college football. Perhaps a system that would equalize a USA Olympic basketball gold with 4 Chinese air rifle golds or 2 synchronized diving golds. I suppose this argument undermines my constant defense of the Sears Cup that Stanford wins every year....
A very cool graphic medal tracker can be found at the following website. Thanks Pat.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html
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