>>If you take, say, a decathlon, then the winner is the guy who did consistently well, maybe only coming 3rd in every event, and not necessarily being best in any. Now, if we say a gold medal is worth 3 points, a silver 2, and a bronze 1, then say one nation at the end had earned just 2 gold medals, and another 7 bronzes, which nation has a better sports record, ie which would come higher in the tables?
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>>I've often thought this when viewing the medal tables. I think the golds trump any no. of silvers then bronzes, but it doesn't seem right to me.
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>As you may guess, there has "always" been a rivalry between Norway and Sweden. I remember in the Olympics in Lillehammer 1994, before the last day Norway had won 10 gold medals, and Sweden had won none. But on the last day Pernilla Wiberg won the Alpine combined gold medal, and the Swedish team won the gold medal in ice hockey. Since ALL the members of the ice hockey team get a medal, Sweden claimed to have won 22 gold medals, meaning that they had won more than double as many as Norway.

You still haven't gotten over that loss, have you? LOL