Olympic Medal Tables.

The Olympic medal table is an interesting read for all of GB these days. Britain on 3rd position, their best haul of golds since 1908, leading the European pack, and above all, topping Australia in golds & medals. Can it get any better?.

Though I share the enthusiasm of some of my colleagues, this post is about some of the interesting medal tables/representations i saw over the last week.

The award for the most creative Olympics medal table has to go to Channel 4. Other than the gold medals order, they also have a way of arranging the medal table by GDP, Population & Human Rights ? (Obviously lead by US).

Slovenia & Jamaica leads the population medal table & do I need to tell you who is in the last position?.Browsing through all these, I find it's better for India to stick to the original table :)

Channel 4 Medal Table

The most interesting Olympic medal mapping over the years comes from NY Times. it's a fantastic link to track the medal map over the years. Rise & fall of soviet union and East Germany, Rise of US from 1996, and now the rise of China. try it out.

NY Times Medal map

Historically, Olympic leaders are always decided based on the golds they have won, and china is clearly taking US to the cleaners this time. But the American media has other idea's.

Both CNN & NY Times still shows America on position 1 as they have ordered the medal tables by medals won. They just don't like to loose, do they?.

NY Times

CNN

To be a bit more fair to them, they have always represented the medal tables this way. some consolation !.