• @lugal@sopuli.xyz
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    Iirc judo always gives two bronze medals but I’m not sure if this is the case in the Olympics as well. Maybe other disciplines do the same. And according to the metric, it might be possible to have the same points and therefore share one medal.

    Gold having 1 more is weird because you would expect no silver if two have gold and therefore a difference of 2. Maybe in one weight class there only qualified one person and got the medal by default?

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      3 months ago

      Gold having 1 more is weird because you would expect no silver if two have gold and therefore a difference of 2.

      Vinesh Phogat was disqualified for being overweight during the weigh-in of the 50kg women’s wrestling final. Her opponent got gold, and both losing semifinalists got bronze.

      It became a big controversy in India because she had been <50kg for every match until then, and she had previously protested against the wrestling federation - which chose her dietician and other staff - for covering up sexual assault cases.

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      3 months ago

      Contest #1: 2 Gold - 0 Silver - 1 Bronze

      Contest #2: 1 Gold - 2 Silver - 0 Bronze

      Having one gold more makes perfect sense if you look at multiple contests.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      83 months ago

      Iirc judo always gives two bronze medals but I’m not sure if this is the case in the Olympics as well.

      It is (I watched an Olympics judo event).