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From NBC. We were looking for one to put in our sidebar, but this will do for now. Find any other good ones out there?
UPDATE: For those of you who prefer the country with the most gold medals (or the European Union) on top:
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Is there a good one for Apples Dashboard? Thx!
yeah, i've been looking for one for a while, too. The NBC one is just so horribly shaped, and big and ugly and red. I can't bare to put it on my site.
a quick google
http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/olympics-medals
You should try those provided by chinese-tools :
http://www.chinese-tools.com/beijing2008/medals.html
(with a European twist...)
And aren't you supposed to rank countries by their number of gold medals not total number of medals?
Says who? I have seen both ways. This is "Medal Count" not "Gold Medal Count."
Just saw this:
http://www.shangzilla.com/article/michael-phelps-to-be-considered-separate-country
HAHAHAHAH well done Shangzilla!
Counting a bronze medal equally as a gold medal seems kind of silly. What's the point in even fighting for first place then, if third place also gives you a +1 medal?
This year is the first time ever i have seen these kind of tallies on the US internet. Go figure..
Just heard a really eerie thing. The final count for China's medals shows the time and date of the Sichuan Earthquake.
51 21 28
May 12, 1:28pm
Oops, sorry got that wrong. It missed the time by an hour.
May 12, 2:28pm