Olympic Gold

The USA officially pulled into the lead in the medal count today with four golds and two silvers. But that's only because those silly Olympic committees don't count the total number of medals but the number of gold medals first, then silver, and then bronze, creating all sorts of confusion. For example, a country with one gold and no other medals is still ahead in the standings compared to a country with ten silvers and ten bronze but no gold. I look at that and see twenty athletes on the podiums compared to one.

In 2002, Norway was supposedly victorious with 13 golds (but only 25 medals overall), Germany had 12 golds (36 overall), and the US came in with 10 golds (34 overall). Looking at this, didn't Germany actually do best?

Personally, I would score the Olympics with a MTMS (Makes Too Much Sense) system: 3 points for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze. This would be fairly simple but then again so would a playoff system for college football.

Using my MTMS system, the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics actually looked like this:

Germany 76 points
USA 67 points
Norway 56 points
Canada 34 points
Russia 27 points

So let's put those snobby Norwegians in their place and count the medals properly!

But first let's fix college football.