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> Olympics has 339 events, each with a gold, silver, and bronze medal. Many events are team-based too, where every team member gets a medal.
by gitgud 5y ago
> Olympics has 339 events, each with a gold, silver, and bronze medal.
Many events are team-based too, where every team member gets a medal.
- Frost1x 5y agoVery good point. I don't really watch sports and 339 was the best representitive number I could find for total medals awarded. I imagine if you knew how many medals were team based, the fixed sizes of teams that get medals, and so on you could work this out more accurately then.
- kleer001 5y agoI bet you're within an order of magnitude. Good calculations.
- Wiles_7 5y agoSome sports also give out multiple bronze medals.
- pinko 5y agoInteresting -- I had no idea! From wikipedia: 'Some combat sports (such as boxing, judo, taekwondo and wrestling) award two bronze medals per competition, resulting in, overall, more bronze medals being awarded than the other colours."
- mikepurvis 5y agoThe occasional tie could also push it the other way— an additional gold at the expense of a silver or likewise with two silvers instead of a silver + bronze. A handy dandy list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ties_for_medals_at_the_Olympics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ties_for_medals_at_the...