The Olympic medal table is a method of sorting the medal placements of countries in the modern day Olympics and Paralympics. Officially, the International Olympic Committee does not recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic Games. Nevertheless, the IOC does publish medal tables for informational purposes, showing the total number of Olympic medals earned by athletes representing each country's respective National Olympic Committee. The convention used by the IOC is to sort by the number of gold medals the athletes from a country have earned. In the event of a tie in the number of gold medals, the number of silver medals is taken into consideration, and then the number of bronze medals. If two countries have an equal number of gold, silver, and bronze medals, they are ordered in the table alphabetically by their IOC country code. (more from wikipedia).
2012 Olympics: Medal count rises, Michael Phelps makes history
On July 31, after four days of athletic competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the medal count continued to rise for several countries, including the United States and China. In other Olympic news, US swimmer and national hero, Michael ...
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