Anyone else think that team sport medals should count as one medal for each player in the team? It's pretty ridiculous that a single person like Phelps or Bolt can rack up multiple medals in minor variations of their sport, while a dozen people going through rounds and rounds end up with only a single medal count.
I'd say team wins should be worth 3 medals on the table (doubles don't count as team). But most of all, I think they've butchered weightlifting. In weightlifting, there's the snatch, the clean and jerk, and the total score; those are worth 3 separate medals at the world's but only 1 at the Olympics! If they did this to swimming, then you'd have only 1 medal for the medley and none for the individual strokes! Then, there's no team score for weightlifting but there's 4 man rely for running and swimming, team for gymnastics, etc...! I'm an obvious fan of weightlifting, but to be fair, I think there should be 3 medals (snatch, clean and jerk, total) for each weight category (8 in men and 7 in women for 15 categories so 45 medals so far), then, men's team snatch, clean and jerk, total, (3 medals) and women's team snatch, clean and jerk, total (3 more) totaling 51 gold medals for weightlifting! Also, you can enter 3 runners or 3 swimmers into all the events but for some reason, each country can only enter 10 lifters among the 15 weight ranks in weightlifting! This rule affects no one except China and maybe Russia since no one else has close to 10 good medal contenders anyway! I say anyone who qualifies (lifts a certain weight at the world's) should be able to compete, or at least allow 1 spot for each category per country (so China doesn't have to be so cruel to its own athletes that someone good for solid silver gets eliminated in team selection). But they'll never do any of that cus then China will never worry about topping the medal tally again, winning about 25 gold just from weightlifting in a bad year! LOL Instead, they'll do swimming, 4 different strokes (invent some more if you need to), each 50m, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 4 man combo, 4 stroke combo, swimming with a black cap, swimming with a red cap, swimming with no hair, swimming with short hair, swimming with long hair, swimming with a ring on, swimming with 2 rings on, etc... LOL
