I stumbled across a sports article from a US publication and thought it interesting that it showed the USA leading the medals table.
Instead of the regular table that gives weight to Gold, silver and bronze, they just see total medals.
I sorta like it. Celebrating all medal winners equally is nice. It feels a little like fudging the numbers, though.
Aren’t tables typically sorted by the total column? Plus on the US one you can sort by any column, unlike the other one.
Not in competitions with medals; those are most commonly ordered by gold medals.