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As it stands, it is possible for the UK, Spain and Germany to all have athletes or teams on the podium at the same time for any event.

But they can't get several Gold medals.
In most sports, it's possible for the US as well, as we will cetainly see it in Athletics.
What you say is true only for team sports that account for very few of the awarded medals.

Since you are proposing to count all medals, even silver and bronze

In this ranking method, silver and bronze only count in case of a tie on gold. Not likely to happen with groups of such a size as the US, EU and China. It never happened before.
In Athens, if there were only a 3 gold medals gap between the US and China, the gap between the US and the EU was of almost 50 gold medals...

How about we make your stupid poll fair

It IS completely fair.
All wheres and abouts are known.
The result will be clear on the Olympics last day (For obvious timing reasons, we will not wait the necessary couple of years for the doped US athletes to be stripped of their medals like Marion Jones)

You know the rules, this prediction if about the medal tally of athletes from China (PRC), USA, and from the EU nations, as for the official medal table on the last day of those olympics on en.beijing2008.cn .

During the Olympics, any time the PeeU wins more than one medal in an event, you only get to count 1 of those medals towards the total? So if 2 or 3 PeeU teams medal in gymnastics, you only get to count 1.

And I would do the same for the US and China, then?
I guess you would allow me to retain the best medal for either one?
Then I can assure you that it would not change the ranking in any way.

If there's a tie in Gold medals, I will reconsider your objection and remove the duplicate EU medals in team sports, ok? :D

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