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Winter map

Can someone please correct the Winter Olympics map as Nigeria, Eritrea and Kosovo competed in 2018 and Saudia Arabia in 2022 and they aren't updated as states which have taken part. Chiemgau05 (talk) 18:51, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Information redundancy

I find this article too long for what it is. While reading this, I felt like I was seeing the same things several times in different places. And to be honest, I really think the first big table is enough. We can retrieve all the information given by the other tables by applying the right filters to this table. So maybe we can just keep this table and delete everything else. It might be a little brutal but at least it will be cleaner. Virkin (talk) 12:52, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree. The first table is quite enough. Nitobus (talk) 17:06, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree that the other information can only be filtered from the main table.

Several sources and different media (even different by country) sometimes include the achievements of predecessor states to successor states in their all-time medal tables and are inconsistent in doing so, as they arbitrarily include the predecessors for individual successor states, but at the same time ignore them for other nations.

The other sections serve to inform the reader how the discrepancies in other sources come about and show how the records could be attributed to the individual countries depending on the interpretation. Miria~01 (talk) 12:57, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While I'm not sure about including everything in a single table, I strongly agree that this entire article is a mess. It would be way more useful for readers if things were organised better. Footy2000♡; 18:12, 25 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This entire article is excellent and very organized, has all the data a reader would want, is long-term stable and reflects the combined efforts of an army of editors. Keep as-is. Jeff in CA (talk) 04:23, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I say keep it as it is. You don't have to scroll past the first table if you're not interested. Bkatcher (talk) 05:12, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

German Medal Count

It makes absolutely no sense of splitting up Germany‘s medals into Germany (post Unification); West Germany and East Germany. There should be one Germany with all medals. After all do we split up say France into Third Republic, Forth Republic, Fifth Republic ? Makes no sense. Or did you split up Ethiopia into a new country after Eritrea left ? 146.0.191.120 (talk) 06:04, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a thorny problem, but I support the way things stand. If Ethiopia had become a new country as well, I'd agree (much like Czechoslovakia became Czechia and Slovakia), but East and West Germany were entirely separate nations. Bkatcher (talk) 13:00, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

“Only… Switzerland”

There’s a statement about 100% participation rate, but when I opened boycotts, Switzerland boycotted Melbourne? Can this statement be clarified? 175.36.219.135 (talk) 14:03, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

From the Switzerland at the 1956 Summer Olympics article: Switzerland boycotted the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia because of the Soviet Union's invasion of Hungary. However, the equestrian events were held in Stockholm, Sweden earlier in the year because of the Australian quarantine laws. The Swiss team competed in Stockholm, winning a bronze medal. Bkatcher (talk) 14:34, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Art gold medal from 1924 Paris Olympics.

I am curious, why isn't ths gold medal won by Konstantinos Dimitriadis counted? I think it should be counted as it was a competition and part of the Olympics. Chronograph 1985 (talk) 15:39, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The IOC no longer counts the art awards as Olympic medals.Bkatcher (talk) 16:22, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greece Profile - olympics.com

That's not true. The IOC does count the Artistic competitions (as well as the alpinism and the aeronautics) medals in the profiles of all NOCs. But that doesn't mean that the medals from the Art competitions necessarily have to be inserted in the table. Miria~01 (talk) 16:55, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

St Lucia

They won their first ever medal last night, should be removed from the list of medal-less NOCs 2001:8003:17A5:7500:B5D6:2A85:A13C:9A21 (talk) 05:22, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dominica too 2001:8003:17A5:7500:B5D6:2A85:A13C:9A21 (talk) 05:23, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]