China News Service, August 5th. On August 5th, the Tokyo Olympic Games came to the 13th competition day.
As of 21 o'clock on the 5th, the Chinese team ranked first with 34 gold medals, while the US team ranked second with 29 gold, and the Japanese team ranked third with 22 gold.
Image source: Screenshot of NBC website
However, the way many American media rank the Olympic medal list has been complained by foreign media and foreign netizens.
In order to make the United States appear first on the list, a number of American media are ranked according to the total number of medals won by each country.
According to a report by the BBC on August 4, many influential media in the United States, even including the United States National Olympic Committee (USOPC), have used a controversial way of ranking medals.
In this medal list, the United States ranks ahead of China.
The reason is that US media medals are based on the total number of medals as the priority calculation basis, rather than calculating the gold medals first.
According to the report, media including the "New York Times", "The Washington Post" and the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), a television station that broadcasts the Olympics, all use a prioritized arrangement for calculating the total number of medals.
The New York Times used a medal table based on the total count before the start of the match day on August 3.
However, a few hours later, the newspaper published a ranking on the social media Twitter (Twitter) with the gold medal as the priority basis.
What's more confusing is that both versions of the medal list can be found on the newspaper's official website.
It is intriguing that the sorting method based on the total number of medals was not adopted in the 2016 Rio Olympics.
At that time, the United States ranked first in the number of Olympic gold medals and the total number of medals.
According to the report, this kind of "god operation" by the American media has been widely criticized, even including some American sports fans.
In addition, News.Australia pointed out with the title "The United States is manipulating the medal list in a strange way" that, as usual, the ranking of countries on the medal list depends on how many gold medals a country has.
The logic of the United States is the total number of medals.
The report pointed out that, obviously, this is incorrect, because according to the official website of Japan, the host of the Olympic Games, the medal list is sorted based on the number of gold medals.
Some foreign netizens commented on this: "The United States has always claimed that it is the largest, best, and number one, and has invented everything. The United States does not decide how to tabulate "Victory". It just puts his name on the table. The top of the list. In this way, those of us who are half-knowledgeable can see "how far ahead" they are, and don't understand that this is just a reporting stunt."