The Official Olympics Rio 2016 thread - USA Get Most Golds, 2nd GB, 3rd China

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MoHasanie said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Looks correct to me. Teams are ordered by gold medals first, then silver, then bronze. As Olympic medal tables always have been.

Actually some countries rank the teams by total medals. I guess it just depends on what makes your country look better. 

America loves to do this, but there is only 1 way to rank it and that's by gold medals. If its a tie it goes to silver. That's how the winner is decided in most if not all major sporting events.