Talk:2018 Winter Olympics medal table

New medal table

Hi, I have changed the medal table back to what should be used as set out in the template. MSalmon (talk) 10:54, 10 February 2018 (UTC)

Default ranking

The introduction to this table says it's a list of countries ranked by number of medals won. But the default list ranks by the number of gold medals. It should be a rank list of total medals, as indicated. Yoho2001 (talk) 14:06, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

I have twice reordered the table to reflect what the text says this list is: a table ranked by total number of medals. Twice, now, my work has been reversed so that it's a ranking of gold medals. I agree with the article that it should rank the total number of medals. The table is sortable for medals of individual colors, if users wish to find that information. Toreau Yoho2001 (talk) 14:07, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Yoho2001: I have added text to the article to clarify the reason for the ordering, consistent with what we have done in past games. See, for instance, 2014 Winter Olympics medal table or 2016 Summer Olympics medal table. Hopefully this should clear up any confusion. Feel free to tweak the language a bit, but keep the sorting as is. Smartyllama (talk) 18:32, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

@Smartyllama: I can appreciate being consistent across medal tables for all Olympics Games, but tend toward counting all medals, versus only golds. Why should a country which wins a single gold be ranked ahead of another which wins 8 silvers and 4 bronzes, for example? The latter country has a huge lead in top three finishes, and arguably is stronger, overall, compared with a single win in one event. Both NBC Sports, which covers the Games for the USA, and CBC Sports (for Canada) rank nations using total medals, and I concur. Yoho2001 (talk) 12:56, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@Yoho2001: THis has been discussed before, many times, with the same result, but if you really want to, go ahead and start an RfC. Smartyllama (talk) 14:51, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@Smartyllama: Thank you. If you can point me to that discussion, I'll see what was said. Yoho2001 (talk) 18:03, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

@Yoho2001: The discussion has happened for every Olympics a few times in a row, and the currently-used gold-first ranking has prevailed every time. This might be due to the fact that it is the most widely-used in the world (essentially everywhere but North America), and also the one used by the IOC. Here is an example of long discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:2008_Summer_Olympics_medal_table&oldid=237031918#Gold-centric Ratfox (talk) 17:26, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

@Yoho2001: Just my two cents on this point - I think it can be argued the other way too. Is a country that wins 5 bronze medals stronger than a country just wins 4 gold? I would think most people would say no. And cutting off at bronze is still a little arbitrary. What about a country that has 10 4th place finishes against 1 bronze medal? They didn't make it to the podium but could be considered stronger. Separating by medal at least removes the arbitrary cut-off to a large extent. Finally - and this is actually quite an important point for the Summer Olympics - a number of sports award two bronze medals (both semi-final losers receive bronze). It could be argued that this makes the medals "values" more unequal. Again, ranking by each type of medal helps remove this. Richjhart (talk) 19:17, 26 February 2018 (UTC)

Missing Medals

How can there be different numbers (77, 75, 78) of Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals? How can Bronze be the largest number? If there were a tie, there would be an excess in the "Better" medal, not the worst.

In any event, if there were ties or disqualifications, they should be noted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.196.144.188 (talk) 20:21, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Ties are noted. There have been 76 medal events completed so far. There were two golds (and no silver) awarded in a bobsleigh event due to a tie, and a tie for bronze in another event resulting in two bronzes being awarded. Additionally, the bronze medal has been awarded in women's ice hockey but gold and silver have not yet. The numbers are correct. Smartyllama (talk) 20:23, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Glitch?

In the default ranking (golds first, then silver, then bronze), the US is ranked 4th with 6 gold, 5 silver, 6 bronze (total 17), while the Netherlands is ranked 5th with 6 gold, 6 silver, and 4 bronze (total 16). I tried refreshing and emptying cache and it comes up with the same result. Am I missing something? - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 03:16, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Solved now. - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 03:37, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Same thing with the OAR positioning? With the gold, should be 15th. - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 05:03, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

Solved now. (Surely this kind of ranking is not done manually? But why else that odd delay between updated numbers and updated ranking?) - Tenebris 66.11.171.90 (talk) 09:31, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

First medal since...

While we usually list countries that have won their first Winter Olympic medal or first gold medal, should we be listing the countries that have overcome long medal droughts? (Spain, New Zealand, and Lichtenstein). I'm not certain we need that.

If it's a really long drought, sure, but 1980 isn't long enough to qualify IMO. As best I can tell, the longest Winter Olympic medal drought (excluding countries which have never won), is Romania, who last won a medal in 1968. Even that is too short, I think. If we were talking 1924 or something, that would be different. Smartyllama (talk) 16:27, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

No team have a drought since 1924... anyway, I think we should set a limit of either a number of games or a time. I think a time limit of 10 or 15 games is reasonable (so 9-14 "misses", meaning no winter olympic medals since 1980-1960 for these games). Note however that the Liechtenstein drought is twice as long as the others as it was an drought for -any- olympic game, not just the winter games.

Looking through it appears Romania does have the longest drought, since 1968, yes. Liechtenstein was second (1988), with Spain and New Zealand sharing 3rd with North Korea and Luxembourg (1992). So of the 6 countries with longest droughts, 3 had their drought streaks snapped these games. -- Lejman (talk) 11:23, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Medals map

All the other recent Olympic Games have a map showing countries with gold, silver, bronze medals . Are we going to add one ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alubini (talk • contribs) 23:59, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

Tonga

You need to add Tonga to the first map shown --116.240.236.234 (talk) 08:19, 6 August 2021 (UTC)