WaPo & NYT mocked by Chinese language officers for placing US at prime of Olympics medal desk, regardless of China profitable extra gold

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Chinese language officers mocked The Washington Publish and The New York Instances for placing the US first or “tied” with China in its protection of the Tokyo Olympics, regardless of China receiving extra gold medals.

China at the moment has eight extra gold medals than the US, however each The New York Instances and The Washington Publish listing the US on the prime of the Tokyo Olympics leaderboard. The US shops are utilizing whole medals received as their methodology, although historically, the nation with essentially the most gold medals sits on the prime of the desk.

Nonetheless, even when China and the US had the identical whole variety of medals (68) on Tuesday, however China had 10 gold medals greater than the US, the Washington Publish opted to put the 2 nations in “tied” 1st place with “T1” written beside the nation names.

The official default Olympic Medal Depend, then again, lists China in first place resulting from it having the very best variety of gold medals, as does The Guardian newspaper – with the US showing in second place.

Zhang Heqing, China’s cultural counsellor at its embassy in Pakistan, mocked the Publish and Instances on Tuesday, posting screenshots of their leaderboards and commenting, “Freedom of Press within the West. Self satisfaction, is not it?”

Chen Weihua, the EU bureau chief for the state-backed China Day by day newspaper, known as the newspapers “the identical joke” and tweeted, “US media all the time have a strategy to put US on prime.”

Lin Jing, the Chinese language Consul Basic in Cape City, South Africa, questioned, “Is that this the way in which to attain ‘American first’?”

China has received 32 gold, 21 silver, and 16 bronze medals thus far within the Tokyo Olympics, giving it a complete of 69 medals, whereas the US has received 24 gold, 28 silver, and 21 bronze – a complete of 73 medals.

In an article final week, the Instances acknowledged that although most different nations rank the positions primarily based on the variety of gold medals, “utilizing silver and bronze solely to interrupt ties,” it and different US shops had determined to make use of one other system which put the nation in first place.

“Publications within the US, together with The New York Instances, usually take this strategy,” the newspaper defined, regardless of accusations on social media of “manipulating” the leaderboard and “counting it unsuitable.”

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