Sentence examples for alternative medal from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA Updated at 8.38pm BST 8.32pm BST More alternative medal tables thoughts Thomas Hopkins emails: "How about T Jones's question in reverse (kind of)?

We worked with statisticians at imperial College to produce this alternative medal table, where countries are judged not simply on how many medals they won but how it compares to each country's GDP, or population, or team size.

Movingly and persuasively written by Tyler E. Boudreau, a former marine, it advocates for an alternative medal to the Purple Heart for those have suffered the hidden wounds of war trauma.

8.46am: Andrew Jolly's alternative medals table debate continues.

The olympics was a veritable feast for the Datablog allowing for projects such as the alternative medals table and a breakdown of medal winners by sport, education and sex.

So although there are honourable mentions for Grenada (who won a gold and a bronze thanks to Kirani James in the men's 400m and decathlete Kurt Felix)  and Pacific island nation Kiribati (giant weightlifter David Katoatau won gold before memorably busting some moves as if he was on the dancefloor) we're left with a familiar name as the winner of BBC Sport's alternative medals table - Nauru.

Using this analysis Russia became the winner of the alternative Olympic medal table and was followed in second place by the UK.

But to see it ranking above the Bronze Star (with) V?" Nick McDowell, a member of the Orders and Medals Society of American said that an alternative to adding a new medal could be adding a new ribbon device to an existing medal, and said that "The problem is that we're adding another non-valor personal decoration into a system that is already crowded with non-valor personal decorations".

If you can't, suggest an alternative to the yearly medal".

It's quite useful to have an alternative to "win a medal".

For those who cannot travel to the Salt Lake City Games, a trip to Whiteface and Lake Placid is a medal-winning alternative roughly five hours' drive from New York City.