Sentence examples for medals compared to from inspiring English sources

West Germany hosted the 1972 Munich Olympics, but won 40 medals compared to 66 for East Germany.

China sent its largest ever group of athletes to the Rio Games - a total of 416 - and had hoped to claim up to 36 gold medals, compared to 16 in 1996.

He thinks that the US will somehow overcome China's challenge and become dominant again, with 37 gold medals compared to 34 for China.

In gymnastics, for example, China 'only' won five gold medals compared to 11 in Beijing, while there were shocks in some disciplines China had been expected to wrap up with ease.

Africa was the clear leader in the athletics, winning 73 medals as compared to Asia's 47, even though the maximum number of nation-wise medals were garnered by Asian nations (China and India).

Similarly, ratings are routinely higher for the Summer Olympics, where the Americans usually win the medal count, compared to the winter games in which we are constantly bested by other countries.

Jon-Allan Jon-Allan Butterworthycling world champion, said too many Paralympic athletes "just have a laugh" and claimed that if athletics, world delivered just two gold medals in Beijing champion to 17 for cycling, had itsaidnding scrapped toon his sport would win twice as many.

This method proved the most accurate for Beijing 2008, forecasting 46 gold medals for China compared to the actual total of 51 the hosts went on to record. "Our model takes a 'whole system' approach rather than sport-by-sport," Shibli told BBC Sport.

He added that when an American sprinter wins a gold medal at the Olympics, "compared to when Marlon Shirley wins the gold medal in the Paralympics, commercially, it's a hell of a lot greater".

(There has, still, been a stinginess with Medals of Honor lately, compared to our other wars — Giunta will be the first living soldier since Vietnam to get one).

Having concluded it was probably a bit de trop to mention yet again how many medals we have got compared to the pitiful Aussie haul, Hazel Irvine adopted the even more patronising approach of comparing the Aussies to the Kiwis.