Medal Count Rankings

[LLJ]

U.S. and Russia should make up significant ground next week. Canada might be starting to dry up. Any more X games left? I don't like their gold chances in figure skating at all from here on out, despite some "favorites". Chan is always a risk to fall down spectacularly, Osmond is too green, and Virtue and Moir look rattled by the rumours of judge fixing and Davis and White's consistency.

[Point forward]

Watch the Swiss rocket up in the medal rankings. They now have 5 Gold and 1 Bronze and boast a .833 Gold ratio. But of course, on ESPN, the Swiss are still only ranked #8, but I guess they don't mind too much

[Point forward]

Speaking of medals, host Russia "just" has 2 Gold (+5S +5B though), and both in events where they were favored (figure skating). This may explain the polite, but not exactly fanatical fan support.

[Point forward]

New "efficient" country: Poland. Four medals, four Gold.

Also, Russia is now the new total medal count leader, 4G+6S+5B=15. New fact I learned about Russia: they have Korean immigrants who short track pretty well!

[samwana]

Lol we dutch have the most medals at the moment! And are second overall, who would have thought that?

[Point forward]

If Germany and Netherlands were one nation, "we" would have 14 Gold, 9 Silver and 10 Bronze medals.

[Dr Positivity]

19 speed skating medals for Netherlands, lol

[Point forward]

Finally Norway has managed to knock us off from #1 in the "Gold>Silver>Bronze" medal rankings. Hard to remain on top if your bob sledders bomb like Anthony Bennett and your cross country skiiers dive like Manu Ginobili!

[Whiteman]

21 out of a possible 30 medals at speed skating. We are greedy people.