I was watching womens gymnastics last night. There is *no way* that this one
Chinese gymnast was 16 years old.

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Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Peo Sjoblom" wrote in message
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The medal count table is only used in the US with the exception of Google
which uses
the same standard as the rest of the world, how on earth anyone can think
that

26 gold, 26 silver and 27 bronze (US) is better than
43 gold, 14 silver and 19 bronze (China) is mind-boggling !?



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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

"James Silverton" wrote in message
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Hello All!

I notice that various newspapers are beginning to proclaim "winners" for
the Games based on medal count. The commonest counts can dealt with by
Excel and it was interesting in 2004 that various reasonable weighting
schemes for gold, silver, bronze, 1:1:1(total medals), 5:3:1 and 3:2:1,
made no difference to the order of the top 10 countries. There were a few
small differences if only gold medals were counted.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not