The wonderful
2012 London Olympics have drawn to a close, a triumph of organisation,
dedication and creativity. Congratulations
to all involved in the organisation.
The
performance of our athletes has also been remarkable, obtaining a brilliant
third in the medals table.Now, far be it from me to inject a sour note into the
euphoria, nor yet cast a curmudgeonly veil over this achievement, but I would
humbly suggest this is not the case.
True, we received more gold medals than Russia, who were officially
placed forth, but this ignores all the silver and bronze medals. If we consider total medals, Russia had 82
and GB 65; third place Russia. But, I
hear you cry, that values a bronze medal as equivalent to a gold. So let us weight the value of the medals gold 3, silver 2, and bronze 1.
Total scores Russia 156, GB 140. Well, perhaps the differential of the
weighting should be increased, say, gold
5, silver 3 and bonze 1. Total scores Russia
230 GB 215. Russia still beat us.
Congratulations
therefore, to the GB team for
their brilliant performance in obtaining a superb and creditable fourth place in the overall medals
table and a little less mathematical spin please .
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