ORIGINAL: Chickenboy
ORIGINAL: warspite1
Depends how you look at it - we've always done the table based on Golds first, not number of medals.
Yes. I imagine that if you calculated # bronze/#silver x #gold divided by pi you would have another formula that some may find useful as well. But they'd be silly. [:'(]
Warspite1
You may think that, but you would be wrong. As Ambrose proved in his 1999 blockbuster "How Great Britain and (Northern) Ireland won every Olympics ever" D K Head Publishing Co.
Check out these extracts:
Chapter 4
......If you look, not just at no. of medals won - or no. of golds won, but instead factor in a plethora of other items, then it is clear that Team GB are the greatest Olympians ever.
Chapter 6
......Of course I do not intend here to go through the plethora of other items as these are patently obvious to anybody with a brain, all I will say in conclusion is that I am right. FACT
So there you have it, conclusive proof from the great man Ambrose [&o]