The Daily Advertiser's Tahlia Sinclair explains the ways medal tallies are being calculated at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Filmed August, 2024
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00:00Australia is winning the Olympics.
00:02Well, or is the US?
00:05Or maybe Fiji?
00:07Media outlets across the globe are calculating
00:10the different ways that their Olympians are winning medals.
00:13While traditionally we only count the gold medals
00:15won by any country,
00:16America has taken a slightly different choice.
00:19Focusing on their entire medal count,
00:22that means their bronze, their silvers and their golds,
00:24the US have inflated themselves to first position
00:27on most of their charts.
00:29But they're not the only ones doing some funky-dunky things.
00:31Looking over in Europe, Euronews has been spotted
00:34calculating the entire continent of golds into one table.
00:38Per capita is the other way
00:40that we're seeing medals calculated.
00:42That is, what's the population size of a country
00:44and how does it impact their chances of a medal?
00:46Small countries like Fiji and Slovenia
00:48have rocketed up this calculation.
00:51Taking on the American system, Fiji would top that list.
00:55But if we're only taking into account gold,
00:56Slovenia is the smallest nation
00:58to have won an event so far.
00:59Another way that we could look at this is,
01:01what about the girls?
01:02Australia's seven gold medals so far
01:04have all been won by women.
01:06And while we would love to see some men up on the podium,
01:09that's pretty cool if you ask me.
01:11While we're sure that inevitably the US
01:13and their fantastic track and field athletes
01:16will pip us a little bit at the post,
01:18for now, it's pretty cool to have more medals than them.
01:23Maybe just don't tell them
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