Talk:United States at the Olympics

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Move

Article United States at the Olympics should be moved to United States at the Summer Olympics, as per {{NOCattheSummerOlympics}}. Mariano(t/c) 14:48, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, this is a portal to any U.S. Olympics articles and should not be renamed to be specific to certain games. See the Summer and Winter medals? As it was recently created, the new sections are about the forthcoming summer games. (SEWilco 07:23, 16 December 2005 (UTC))[reply]

Due to the lack of consensus to move this article, I'm removing it from Wikipedia:Requested moves. Should this change in the future, feel free to re-add it. —Cleared as filed. 02:34, 28 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cleanup Needed

There are a few instances of errors such as the incomplete sentence referring to the Turin Olympics.--PhattyFatt 02:13, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge?

How about combining this with United States at the Summer Olympics and United States at the Winter Olympics? Most countries either have a combined entry, or Summer and Winter entries, but not both... Paulbrock 16:27, 18 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ranks

Im going to delete the ranks on the right because of WP:OLY.Toutvientapoint (talk) 16:43, 10 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1896 Athens	11	7	2	20	1
1900 Paris	19	14	14	47	2
1904 St. Louis (host nation)	78	82	72	239	1
1908 London	23	12	12	47	2
1912 Stockholm	25	19	19	63	1
1920 Antwerp	41	27	27	95	1
1924 Paris	45	27	27	99	1
1928 Amsterdam	22	18	16	56	1
1932 Los Angeles (host nation)	41	32	30	103	1
1936 Berlin	24	20	12	56	2
1948 London	38	27	19	84	1
1952 Helsinki	40	19	17	76	1
1956 Melbourne/Stockholm	32	25	17	74	2
1960 Rome	34	21	16	71	2
1964 Tokyo	36	26	28	90	1
1968 Mexico City	45	28	34	107	1
1972 Munich	33	31	30	94	2
1976 Montreal	34	35	25	94	3
1980 Moscow	did not participate				-
1984 Los Angeles (host nation)	83	61	30	174	1
1988 Seoul	36	31	27	94	3
1992 Barcelona	37	34	37	108	2
1996 Atlanta (host nation)	44	32	25	101	1
2000 Sydney	36	24	31	91	1
2004 Athens	36	39	27	102	1
2008 Beijing	36	38	36	110	2
Total*	929	729	637	2295	1

Medals by Winter Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1924 Chamonix	1	2	1	4	5
1928 St. Moritz	2	2	2	6	2
1932 Lake Placid (host nation)	6	4	2	12	1
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	1	0	3	4	8
1948 St. Moritz	3	4	2	9	4
1952 Oslo	4	6	1	11	2
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	2	3	2	7	6
1960 Squaw Valley (host nation)	3	4	3	10	3
1964 Innsbruck	1	2	3	6	8
1968 Grenoble	1	5	1	7	9
1972 Sapporo	3	2	3	8	5
1976 Innsbruck	3	3	4	10	3
1980 Lake Placid (host nation)	6	4	2	12	3
1984 Sarajevo	4	4	0	8	3
1988 Calgary	2	1	3	6	9
1992 Albertville	5	4	2	11	5
1994 Lillehammer	6	5	2	13	5
1998 Nagano	6	3	4	13	5
2002 Salt Lake City (host nation)	10	13	11	34	3
2006 Turin	9	9	7	25	2
Total*	78	80	58	216	2

Whos the real first olympian winner

Please see the question the 1896 games medal table, here.
– HonorTheKing (talk) 21:47, 10 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Number of silver medals in the 1984 olympics in LA

In the Medals by Summer Games, it should be 61 silver medals, not 60 in the 1984 olympics? //212.56.134.28 (talk) 15:49, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And for the 2000 games in Sydney there are one too many bronze medals in the Medals by Summer Games table?//Inteloutside2 (talk) 16:00, 15 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:United States at the Olympics/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

To whom it may concern:

Hello.

According to http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=1&OLGY=1904, at the III Olympic Games (St Louis 1904), the United States of America got 239 medals: 78 (gold), 82 (silver), and 79 (bronze). The "All-time Olympic Games medal table" and the "United States at the Olympics" wikipedia pages need to be checked.

Best wishes.--Alpinu (talk) 21:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 21:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 09:37, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Orphaned references in United States at the Olympics

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of United States at the Olympics's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "sportsillustrated.cnn.com":

From Miracle on Ice: "USA holds off Russia 3–2 to advance to gold medal game". CNN. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
From Soccer in the United States: SI.com, Lots of questions about Fox's surprising World Cup coup, October 21, 2011, http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/grant_wahl/10/21/fox.world.cups/index.html#ixzz2LICEAHaC
From Lopez Lomong: Olympian Lopez Lomong Still Dreaming Big Si.com, January 6, 2009

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 16:18, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Medal Totals

There is something wrong with the gold medal totals. At the top right hand side of the article, there is a graphic with gold, silver and bronze colored boxes containing the numbers of each type of medal the USA has won from the beginning of the games to present time. The gold medal total listed there is 1125. However, in the medal tables section of the article, the totals listed for summmer and winter games respectively are 1022 and 105, for a total of 1127. I'm not sure which is right, but something is in error. I did verify that 1022 and 105 are the correct sums for the year-by-year totals listed in the tables. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.0.204 (talk) 15:59, 18 February 2020 (UTC) There is an inconsistency in the totals of all the medals in the "Medals By Summer Games" The totals of the medals of Gold, Silver, Bronze, Total, of all the summer olympics held so far should be 1061, 836, 752, 2636 whereas the the totals are shown as 1075, 846, 749, 2673. So if the totals are correct than medals of some the individual olympics are incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.195.79.238 (talk) 04:32, 22 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I want to say the same thing as well, like the medal count for gold, silver and bronze, and in turn total medals at the Summer Olympics aren't updated and added up accordingly. We would like to see this inconsistency fixed ASAP. It's been almost a week now since the Paris Games ended, so the medal count should have been updated right then (with the accurate medal count of course). Please, someone with authority should look into this. Ryumikhail (talk) 23:08, 15 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Tone down the patriotism

In many places, this article does not read as a neutral encyclopedia entry. Wikipedia articles are neither disappointed or impressed by any country. The US is by far the most populous developed nation, with 2.5 times the population of Japan. It has more medals as a consequence of its population and wealth. Wealth is important, because high-level sportspeople require ample free time, facilities and sponsorship. Its consistently high tally position is therefore unsurprising. The US performance should not be personified. Words like "stellar", "redemption", "leading force", "dismal", "staggering", "completely obliterated" are appropriate for US sports news, but is not NPOV. There is off-topic commentary such as "zealous resistance from the Japanese".

The Cold War history reads as heroes vs villains propaganda, for example: "Soviet machine". The line "Americans did their best to challenge the Soviets, but the playing field wasn't level" is subjective analysis. Wikipedia cannot arbitrate. US doping is not mentioned, as per Doping_in_the_United_States#United_States_Olympic_Committee_cover-up. Many countries had ways of getting around the professional ban, for example the US use of Athletic scholarships is not mentioned. More crucially, it is poorly sourced and in many cases not sourced. Many details here are not in the article Soviet Union at the Olympics. There are claims linked to Sports Reference, that don't exist there. Poorly sourced and biased writing impacts on credibility. Well done to all the athletes, but no medals for this article. Travelmite (talk) 15:42, 9 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I very much agree with the previous comment. It’s time for the article to be revised to remove the personification, heroes vs. villains tone, POV language, subjective analysis, and the unseemly and wholly unnecessary year-by-year medals comparisons with Russia, which by its very inclusion reflects an animus. Jeff in CA (talk) 22:02, 25 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Section Russia–United States rivalry must be removed from this article. I urge the author (User:Gumswick55) to create a separate article for this section and move this section there. Nitobus (talk) 10:23, 26 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Section removed this day.Jeff in CA (talk) 20:06, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Summer sport medal table specification

In the medal table by summer sports, some entries are really too specific and are only written like that for the United States. Here, for some unknown reason, each sub-division of cycling and canoeing are divided. But I really find it strange to describe these medals like that only for one country. So, to be uniform with the other pages, I propose to delete these rows in the table and create only 2 new rows: Cycling and Canoeing. What do you think ? Virkin29 (talk) 13:05, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree with that opinion. I think you're welcome to bold edit (WP:BRD) and refer to the discussion here, if there are any objections. Miria~01 (talk) 18:42, 21 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]