JV wrote:

Does anyone else remember how they used to weight the medal counts (Gold = 3, Silver = 2, Bronze = 1) when publishing the "standings"? Wonder why they stopped that.

I don't remember that, but the U.S. is apparently the only country in the world that uses total medal count rather than just gold medals as the primary measurement.

forsberg_us wrote:

JV wrote:

Does anyone else remember how they used to weight the medal counts (Gold = 3, Silver = 2, Bronze = 1) when publishing the "standings"? Wonder why they stopped that.

 
I have a vague recollection of that. Thought it was Gold=5, Silver=3, Bronze=1.

You may be right. The particulars escape me as easily as Finnish shots escaped the USA defense.