Scooped the Wall Street Journal

UPDATE 28 AUG 08: NEW POST WITH UPDATED FINAL STANDINGS

Last Wednesday, in an entry called Armenia Leads Olympic Medal Count, I wrote about ranking Olympic countries by the ratio of their medals to population or per capita GDP instead of by the number of gold medals or their total medal count.

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal (Weekend Edition) made the same points in an article titled The Glory of Just Showing Up.

So I'm thrilled that the level of creativity and journalism at the Wall Street Journal is sufficient to meet the standards of this blog. =)

Today The New York Times Olympic Blog also published a response, in which they rank the countries using a weighted system (4 points for gold, 2 points for silver, 1 point for bronze). By their system China is in the lead.

Yesterday The Raw Feed proposed first applying a weighting system and then determining the medal to population ratio. By their count Australia is winning.

For updated rankings of total medals or gold medals by population without weighting, Simon Forsyth is keeping tally.