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Stick stricktly to IOC official data at the moment

In the pages of the national committees at the IOC website it is indicated the number of medals OFFICIALLY recognised to every IOC at the moment. So, if we go to the page of the NOC of Ukraine we see that in the games of LONON-2012 the following medals are recognised by the OIC for this country: 6 gold, 4 silver, 9 bronze. https://www.olympic.org/ukraine (Roll a bit down the page) However, some people here, which probably consider having more authority and knowledge than the IOC have input 6 gold, 4 silver, 8 bronze for Ukraine. The same holds for other countries, including Russian Federation. https://www.olympic.org/russian-federation: 22 - 24 - 32, recognised by IOC at this moment, and not 22 - 23 - 32, input by "somebody" here. PLEASE WAIT TILL ANY CHANGE IS OFFICIALLY DONE BY THE IOC AND STICK STRICTLY TO THE OFFICIAL IOC PUBLICATIONS. I would like to correct such disrespectful information in this Wikipedia article, but it is really impossible to talk in a decent way with such "ultra wise and full of authority" redactors. Please, BE DONE TO EARTH!

Five London 2012 events to have medals, diplomas reallocated

12 Nov 2021 Five London 2012 events to have medals, diplomas reallocated

1. Olympic Games London 2012 – Athletics – Men’s High Jump ATHLETICS HIGH JUMP MEN RESULTS
2. Olympic Games London 2012 – Athletics – Women’s High Jump ATHLETICS HIGH JUMP WOMEN RESULTS
3. Olympic Games London 2012 – Athletics – Women’s Long Jump ATHLETICS LONG JUMP WOMEN RESULTS
4. Olympic Games London 2012 – Canoe – Men’s Canoe Sprint (C-1) 200m CANOE SPRINT C-1 200M (CANOE SINGLE) MEN RESULTS
5. Olympic Games London 2012 - Wrestling – Men’s Freestyle 120kg WRESTLING FREESTYLE 120KG MEN RESULTS

Nitobus (talk) 08:22, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Original Rank versus Now

So many changes.

I’d like to see the original tally… at 13 August 2012.

I suppose I can get it from this article’s "View History", but I’d much rather see columns (in one table) with "original" and "now". That means an extra 3 columns (4 with Total, 5 with original rank).

Perhaps make it a "see also", or a stub?

MBG02 (talk) 06:42, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

History at [1] 12 August 2012.

MBG02 (talk) 07:03, 28 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

5 extra columns (gold, silver, bronze, total, rank), and (I would argue) an extra row (header's for original table, and "adjusted". This isn't necessarily a problem. My oppoisition to this proposal comes from it being WP:UNDUE. The changes come because athletes get disqualified. How many sources continue to hold the disqualifed medal winners in equal regard? I don't know, but my guess would be hardly any, and therefore it would be WP:UNDUE (or WP:OR if none do it) for us to do so [hold the disqualifed medal winners in equal regard]. SSSB (talk) 12:23, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I like the argument that it (appears to) give undue regard… but I see it as highlighting the disregard they (or the nation) should get.

And the amazing effect: Uzbekistan down 29 spots, Bahrain up 29 spots, Chinese Taipei up 15…. Russia didn’t move.

I first posted (here) before I saw the last table. Now (I'm changing my request) I reckon just the former and current ranks is good (added at left, to this table). I was pondering adding it (and seeing if it survived), but although it looks easy (according to Help:Table and Google) I know it's not…. for me. Re HM sources: I play TriviaCrack (a lot). They claim that Australia came 10th.

Also...

Although London is a much longer list than others List of stripped Olympic medals, I suppose it'd be dumb to just do London.

I got my answer by copying wiki into Google sheets.

MBG02 (talk) 22:54, 30 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Kim Myong Hyok medal

On the IOC website tehre is no bronze medal on results page: [2], but it should be reallocated accoring this decision [3]. What happened whith that medal? Anatoliy (Talk) 21:52, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Here are further discrepancies at the IOC website:

Myong Hyok KIM - olympics.com: Bronze medal in the Athletes Profile
DPR Korea - Profile - olympics.com: without the bronze medal for Myong Hyok KIM

I assume the database has not been updated. Miria~01 (talk) 11:43, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

1500m

@Jonas kam the latest change was basically correct [4] Pelmeen10 (talk) 22:51, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, but no source was cited in the article so the edit was reverted. Could you do it the right way? Thanks, Jonas kam (talk) 23:29, 4 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]