Here is a more logical way of ranking countries rather than based on number of gold medals obtained – the 3,2,1 point system:
Gold = 3 points
Silver = 2 points
Bronze = 1 point
And the result based on the medal tally as of 11:21am on August 18th (Beijing local time) is as the following (total points obtained followed by country name):
144 China
124 US
57 Russia
55 Australia
53 Britain
47 Korea
45 Germany
42 France
41 Japan
36 Italy
27 Ukraine
18 Netherlands
17 Romania
14 Spain
13 Poland
13 Cuba
13 Kazakhstan
13 Belarus
12 Czech Republic
12 Canada
11 Slovakia
11 DPR Korea
10 Jamaica
10 New Zealand
9 Switzerland
9 Zimbabwe
9 Azerbaijan
9 Hungary
8 Ethiopia
8 Norway
8 Indonesia
7 Georgia
7 Slovenia
7 Brazil
6 Bulgaria
6 Finland
6 Denmark
6 Sweden
5 Mongolia
5 Kenya
5 Turkey
5 Armenia
4 Austria
4 Greece
3 Cameroon
3 India
3 Thailand
3 Tunisia
3 Algeria
3 Colombia
3 Croatia
3 Kyrgyzstan
3 Serbia
3 Uzbekistan
2 Chile
2 Ecuador
2 Estonia
2 Malaysia
2 Singapore
2 Trinidad/Tobago
2 Vietnam
2 Chinese Taipei
1 ARgentina
1 Egypt
1 Lithuania
1 Mexico
1 Tajikistan
1 Togo
As I am from the land down under, I’d like to hail this ranking system as the REAL thing.
