does the country with the most medals win the olympics, or are the gold, silver, bronze worth point values?
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There is no overall winner of the Olympics, but when compiling medal tables, the usual convention is:\n\nSort by the number of golds, if more than one country has the same number of golds then sort by silvers and if more than one country has the same number of silvers then sort by bronze. If more than one country has the same number of bronzes, then sort by alphabetical order of country where list is compiled.
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there are soccer being contested in the Olympics, currently 16 teams will be played in the Olympics.\n\nqualification will be similar to the World Cup where respective confederations will be allocated their berth, host nation will get the automatic berth.\n\nthe Olympic soccer event is only restricted to under 23-squad but 3 player over 23 can be included in the squad.\n\nARGENTINA won the last summer Olympics soccer final in 2004 beating PARAGUAY in the final. Ironically, this is ARGENTINA's 1st first gold medal & PARAGUAY's first silver medal in the competition.\n\nBRAZIL may have won the World Cup 5 times but they have yet to win the elusive gold medal in Olympics soccer event. they have only won silver medal in 1988 losing to Soviet Union.
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In terms of a football competition, the FIFA World Cup.\n\n      However, as an overall athletic event, the Olympics, due to their history, and the amount of countries and people they bring together, is by far the better one.
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If you assume that the nation with the most medals to have "won" the unofficial champions would be:\n\n(Number of Gold medals take precedence over total medals)\n\n1996\n\n1. USA -------- 101 (44 Gold)\n2. Russia -----  63 (26 Gold)\n3. Germany ----  65 (20 Gold)\n\n2000\n\n1. USA --------  97 (40 Gold)\n2. Russia -----  88 (32 Gold)\n3. China ------  59 (28 Gold)\n\n2004\n\n1. USA -------- 103 (35 Gold)\n2. China ------  63 (32 Gold)\n3. Russia -----  92 (27 Gold)\n\nLookout for China in '08. It looks as if they'll dominate
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France won gold in 1900\nAustralia won gold in 1908\nUSA won gold in 1920 and 1924
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The best site is Sportline. you can have the medal by date, by sport, by country. You have a list with multiple medal winner (which is top by Cindy Klassen) plus a review of each winner of each olympics since 1924. So you can know that Johan Gröttumsbraaten from Norway has won a bronze medal in 1924.
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I don't know about the actual medal's worth, but the USOC pays athletes $25,000 for winning an inidividual gold.  There are prizes for silver, bronze and team medals, too.
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Dude.........\n(according to Host Nation) Germany\n(according to Spainiards) Spain\n(according to Leonardo Da Vinci) Italy\n(according to Asians) Australia\n(according to Americans) U.S.A\n(according to me) Brazil, which is the best team.
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The Olympic Games offer no prize money for winning any medals.\n\nThat being said, several countries have traditionally offered cash prizes to members of their teams that medal, not to mention the cash benefits of sponsorship offers many athletes who win gold will receive.
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Mark Spitz won 9 Golds, A Silver & A Bronze for a total of 11 Medals:\n\nGolds:\n1968 - 4x100m FREE & 4x200m FREE\n1972 - 100m FREE, 200m FREE, 100m FLY, 200m FLY, 4x100m FREE, 4x100m MEDLEY & 4x200m FREE\n\nSilver:\n1968 - 100m FLY\n\nBronze:\n1968 - 100m FREE\n\nCarl Lewis won 9 Golds & 1 Silver for a total of 10 Medals\n\nGolds:\n1984 - 100m, 200m, Long Jump & 4x100m \n1988 - 100m & Long Jump\n1992 - Long Jump & 4x100m\n1996 - Long Jump \n\nSilver:\n1988 - 200m\n\n\nSpitz won a single medal more than Lewis did in their respective Olympic careers
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by the results of their athletes in international competitions
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Japan is currently ranked 17th according to FIFA.  Take that as you may.  The Czech Republic is 2nd but there are plenty of teams better than they are.
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In 1896, winners' medals were in fact silver. The custom of gold-silver-bronze for the first three places dates from the 1904 games and has been copied for many other sporting events\n\nHowever, the 1904 Olympics also awarded silver trophies for first place, which makes Athens 1906 the first games that awarded the three medals only
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I go with Australia. We showed with a successful 2000 Olympics we are extremely capable of hosting world class sporting events and the venues left from the Olympics could be easily upgraded to the standard of world class stadiums. We are friendly people on the whole and would welcome everyone. That would be fantasic for us fans as being so far away from the rest of the world we don't get to see the best of the best play live. Australian's would love the opportunity to learn and grow from an experience like that.
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During the Torino Olympics Cindy Klassen (Speed Skating)from Canada won 5 medals. 1 Gold, 2 Silver and 2 Bronze. That's made her the biggest winner in Torino.\n\nIn 1980, in Lake PLacid, Eric Heiden from USA won 5 gold medals. That I think is the best in one olympics.\n\nBut, Ole Einar Bjoerndalen (Biathlon) is the most decorated athlete. He had 6 medals before the Torino games and add three other medals. So he has now 9 winter olympic medals (5-3-1).
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the Olympics WAS a competition for AMATEURS ; Many countries support and train their athletes  some starting as children sent to boarding schools(training camps).\nEconomically there is no gain as to how many medals a country wins...the ONLY economic gain is the profits gained when a country is selected as the host.
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Australia won the gold medal by beating  Russia on September 23, 2006 - 14:00 at the score of 91–74, in the the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women which took place in Brazil from September 12 to September 23, 2006.\n\nIt was Australias first win in the said championship with  player Penny Taylor-Gil awarded as Most valuable player.\n\nFinal standing on the said tournament as follows:\n# Team \n1  Australia \n2  Russia  \n3  United States  \n4  Brazil  \n5  France \n6  Lithuania  \n7  Czech Republic\n8  Spain \n9  Argentina  \n10  Canada  \n11  Cuba  \n12  China  \n13  South Korea  \n14  Chinese Taipei  \n15  Senegal  \n16  Nigeria