Download Program Nick Karaoke 2012 Olympic Medals
In honor of the 2012 SummerOlympic Games currently being held in London,England, Idecided to create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet template for the medal count.There are two primary methods most websites appear to be ranking the 2012 medalcount. Sites like Yahoo rank countries by the total number of Olympic medalswon.
2012 Summer Olympics Medals
Other sites, like the International Olympic Committee (or IOC) rankcountries by their gold medal count. (And others, rank by otherfactors like per capita or GDP.)If you rank by gold medals countries like Great Britain and South Korea look really good. Onthe other hand, Japanhas 27 medals, ranking fifth overall, but only TWO of them are gold. I’vedevised my own ranking system to give each Olympic medal a weight where thesilver is worth half a gold medal and a bronze is worth only a quarter of thegold. Based on this new scoring system, the Olympic results suddenly becomeI looked at the Olympic Game results for the toptwenty countries medal counts up through today (Monday, August 5th). The topfour countries actually remain in the same order but Japan drops from fifth to eighth.
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South Koreajumps up from 7th to 5th due to 11 gold medals. The biggest increase is Kazakhstan which shoots up from barely makingthe list at #20, almost all the way into the top ten at #11.The biggest fall isby Canadafrom 12th to 16th. Oh, and if he were a country he’d rank 14th overallbecause Michael Phelps' medal count at these Olympics Games is four gold and twosilver.I’ve shared my andlisted out the Olympic medals by country (as of the morning of August 5th - Iwill try to keep this updated but no promises!). How would you weight each medal against the others? Comment below and share any of your more interesting Olympic medal counts!Check out our for more sports templates and to be notified about new posts and spreadsheets.