All-Time Olympic Medal Count

[93henfan]

From Wiki (with a really cool sortable table): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_O ... edal_table

Here are the top five all-time medal winners (summer and winter combined):

Country - Total (Gold, Silver, Bronze)

United States - 2,511 (1007, 809, 695)
Soviet Union - 1,204 (473, 376, 355)
Great Britain - 736 (215, 258, 263)
France - 719 (216, 236, 267)
Germany - 689 (223, 222, 244)

Suck on that, world.

[DJH]

Patriotism is running wild tonight!

[BlueHen86]

From Wiki (with a really cool sortable table): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_O ... edal_table

Here are the top five all-time medal winners (summer and winter combined):

Country - Total (Gold, Silver, Bronze)

United States - 2,511 (1007, 809, 695)
Soviet Union - 1,204 (473, 376, 355)
Great Britain - 736 (215, 258, 263)
France - 719 (216, 236, 267)
Germany - 689 (223, 222, 244)

Suck on that, world.

If you're going to do the list, do it right. China belongs on top, regardless of how many medals they actually have.

[Fresno St. Alum]

Fuck China and their Lead toys and their 1 American supported with lots of IDs

[SuperHornet]

Is that Soviet number now fixed? Or are they adding RUS medals to it?

[grizzaholic]

Is that Soviet number now fixed? Or are they adding RUS medals to it?

I think that Soviet Union count is Russia and the "Russian Federation of Nations" and will continue to be added to.

[93henfan]

Is that Soviet number now fixed? Or are they adding RUS medals to it?

I think that Soviet Union count is Russia and the "Russian Federation of Nations" and will continue to be added to.

I think I have to disagree. If you look on the table, there are many variations of what we now know as Russia:

Russian Empire - up until 1912 olympics
Soviet Union - 1952 - 1988 olympics
Unified Team - 1992 olympics
Russia - 1994 to present olympics

All the Soviet numbers in the table were attained in just 36 years. Shows the power of childhood selection and lifelong engineering of athletes, complete with a boatload of PEDs prior to implementation of testing, not to mention the exemption for "professional" athletes that didn't receive salaries .

[grizzaholic]

I think that Soviet Union count is Russia and the "Russian Federation of Nations" and will continue to be added to.

I think I have to disagree. If you look on the table, there are many variations of what we now know as Russia:

Russian Empire - up until 1912 olympics
Soviet Union - 1952 - 1988 olympics
Unified Team - 1992 olympics
Russia - 1994 to present olympics

They talked about something Tues/maybe it was Monday while on a break in action on one of the Hockey games regarding all-time medal counts. They had some screwy name for the former Soviet Union and all, most, of its nations were included in that count. I may be mistaken.

[93henfan]

I believe Russia was even teamed up with Belarus and Ukraine and called the Commonwealth of Independent States at some point in the early 1990s. Not sure if they competed as such in the olympics. Wiki doesn't indicate it.

[OhioHen]

Interesting note by going to the NY Times link on the Wiki page:

Almost 10% of the US medals came from St. Louis 1904

US 239 medals
ROW 41 medals

[BlueHen86]

I believe Russia was even teamed up with Belarus and Ukraine and called the Commonwealth of Independent States at some point in the early 1990s. Not sure if they competed as such in the olympics. Wiki doesn't indicate it.

In the 1992 Winter Olympics Russia competed as part of the Unified Team, which was Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Armenia.

In the 1992 Summer Olympics the Unified Team was 12 of the former 15 Soviet Republics. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania competed separately. IIRC Lithuania took 3rd in men's basketball that year wearing really cool tie die uniforms that were inspired by and paid for by the Greatful Dead.

[93henfan]

IIRC Lithuania took 3rd in men's basketball that year wearing really cool tie die uniforms that were inspired by and paid for by the Greatful Dead.

Yep, that was great.

[SuperHornet]

IIRC Lithuania took 3rd in men's basketball that year wearing really cool tie die uniforms that were inspired by and paid for by the Greatful Dead.

Yep, that was great.

Ugh! Those are blinding. They're worse than the Chicago White Sox softball uniforms of the late '70s.

[BlueHen86]

Yep, that was great.

Ugh! Those are blinding. They're worse than the Chicago White Sox softball uniforms of the late '70s.

They blinded the opposition all the way to the bronze medal.

I also thought they were cool.

The White Sox uni's were bad, as were the pants the Flyers and Whalers wore back in the mid 80's.

[JayJ79]

IIRC Lithuania took 3rd in men's basketball that year wearing really cool tie die uniforms that were inspired by and paid for by the Greatful Dead.

Yep, that was great.

I'm surprised that someone didn't complain that their uniforms were not uniform,
as each tie-dye had differentiation of color design on it.
(which, I know, is totally trivial, the governing bodies of sports (high school federation, NCAA, olympics, etc.) are chock full of trivial regulations about uniforms.

[dgreco]

Also the Germans are separated into 4 different categories.

Total Germany has 1,588

and as they said earlier for Russia there total is 1,740

[93henfan]

Also the Germans are separated into 4 different categories.

Total Germany has 1,588

and as they said earlier for Russia there total is 1,740

I'm guessing that Greece holds the all-time lead if we go far enough back.

[GannonFan]

Also the Germans are separated into 4 different categories.

Total Germany has 1,588

and as they said earlier for Russia there total is 1,740

I'm guessing that Greece holds the all-time lead if we go far enough back.

Nah, too few events back then. Unless they found a way to incorporate Synchronization into javelin throwing or something silly like that.