Talk:China at the 2024 Summer Olympics
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Breaking/Round-robin/Round of 16/Qualifier
editBreaking featured round-robin tournaments (4 groups of 4) for qualifiers, so I put qualification and round of 16 under "Round-robin" - technically, two athletes did compete in an Olympics qualifier (instead of qualifying during a competition or something like that). However, given that there's only two I thought having it be different just for the two athletes would be better than having way more blank squares for all the others. I'm not sure whether this is a good idea (and obviously this sport may change tournament styles) and would love input. I also calculated rank based on points (i.e. whoever ended up in QF but did not advance, the lower the vote count the lower the rank). Naycre (talk) 22:25, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Gold medal tie?
editI believe China and USA tied in the gold totals with 40 each and it is the first time in Summer Olympic history that there's a gold medal tie at top of charts. Numerous media outlets have been making that claim and why I think it should be included, given historic significance.[1] But at least one other editor is claiming that there is no tie and that USA had exceeded China on gold medal count. I don't understand such reasoning. But I added in info to the article stating that this is the first time in the summer Olympics that this has ever occurred as many media sources are saying that and believe them to be reliable. Evibeforpoli (talk) 20:41, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
China did in fact tie with US on golds
editAgain, this is becoming a waste of time but the fact is China tied with US on gold medals. They both topped the gold medal count and so constantly changing the article to claim they came second on gold medals, despite having same number of gold medals, is what's blatant misinfo. It seems certain editors including Pziegg are constantly pushing a pov that isn't supported by major media who all agree that China and USA have both tied in gold medal count. There is no tiebreaker on who wins the most golds. Constantly using verbal gymnastics to conflate gold medal count falsely as being the same as overall medal tally, is wrong and tiresome. Evibeforpoli (talk) 20:37, 27 August 2024 (UTC)