Olympics Final Score

Well the Olympics is over for another 4 years and everyone wants to know the final score. Who won? How did there country do?

Well it's not always a straight forward answer.

In terms of gold medals, the ranking is:

1. China - 51
2. USA - 36
3. Russia - 23
4. UK - 19

Well done China. However, in terms of total medals, the ranking changes:

1.USA - 110
2.China - 100
3. Russia - 72
4. UK - 47

Unsurprisingly, our good old cousins from across the pond prefer this method of scoring. But everyone knows not all medals are equal and it's crazy to score them as if they were. The simple example of gold = 3 points, silver =2 and bronze = 1 gives:

1. China - 246
2. USA - 220
3. Russia - 134
4. UK - 102

Slightly fairer, but it still doesn't take into account the real attitudes towards medals.

Here, for the first time in Olympic history, the new undisputedly perfectly fair method of medal scoring is unveiled.

Golds:
The first 10 gold medals are fantastic and thus worth 6 points each
The next 10 gold medals are great but nothing new and thus worth 2 points each.
Anything after 20 is unnessary and thus not scored.

Silvers:
The first 10 are OK and worth 1 point each.
The next 5 become painful, "so close to gold" and thus result in the lose of a point for each
Anything after 15 is really painful and thus loses 2 points each.

Bronze:
The first 10 aren't noticed.
The second 10 are OK, "at least we got a medal", 1 point each.
Anything after 20 aren't noticed.

Much research into the attitudes of both spectators and atheletes shows this scoring is 100% accurate and has, at time of writing, never been argued with by anyone ever. In addition this system has the added benefit of having a maximum score of 100.

Taking this to be the unquestionable true scoring system then, the final ranking for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is:

1. UK - 88
2. China - 83
2. Russia - 83
...
10. USA - 49

Congradulations to the UK, worlds greatest. Well done to China and Russia, good efforts, very close. USA? 10th? Poor performance, better luck in London.