Chapter 322 The End of the Olympics and the Medal Table

On June 9, 1912, the fifth Summer Olympic Games, the Sydney Olympics, was officially held in Sydney, the capital of Australia.

More than 3,500 athletes from 31 countries around the world attended the opening ceremony of the Olympics on June 9.

According to statistics from the Australian government, more than 50,000 spectators watched the opening ceremony of the Games, and more than 100,000 Australians watched outside the stadium.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is a national event. Many governments and tens of millions of people around the world are also paying attention to this Olympics.

Arthur also came to the scene on this day and announced the official opening of the Olympics.

Arthur's arrival made the Australians at the scene very happy, and also let other foreign people see how popular Arthur is in Australia.

From the participants in the opening and closing ceremonies, it can be seen that the Australian government attaches great importance to this Olympics.

Arthur personally delivered the opening speech, and Prime Minister Kent will deliver the closing speech in the future.

More importantly, the first gold medal of the Olympics will be awarded by Arthur himself and recorded in the history of the Sydney Olympics.

You should know that according to the announcement of the International Olympic Committee, all medals won in this Olympics will be recorded in history and officially recognized by the Olympic Committee.

This also means that the first gold medal of this Olympics can also be understood as the first gold medal in the world that has been officially recorded, and its value and commemorative significance are naturally irreplaceable.

It is worth mentioning that even the Balkan countries facing war have sent a certain number of athletes to participate in this Olympics.

There are many countries participating in this Olympics for the first time, including Egypt, Luxembourg, Portugal, Syria, island countries, etc.

This also broke the record for the number of athletes participating in the Olympics. So far, the Sydney Olympics is the Olympics with the most participants and the most participating countries in the five Olympics.

The Olympics will last until the end of July. For Australasia, the two-month Olympics is one of the most important tasks of the government in recent times.

According to conservative estimates, this Olympics has attracted hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists to Australasia, greatly promoting the development of Sydney and nearby cities.

But at the same time, a large number of foreign tourists have also caused serious troubles to the public security of these cities.

Since May, Arthur has ordered the public security department to recruit more police from other cities to maintain the public security of Sydney and nearby cities.

Such a grand event that the world is paying attention to, if the public security problems of Australasia lead to national shame, that is absolutely unacceptable to Arthur.

After all, Arthur wants to use this Olympic Games to let all people around the world know about Australasia and the living standards of Australasia.

This is of great help to the government in attracting immigrants, but it must not be destroyed because of some small problems.

Compared with the historical Stockholm Olympics, the overall process of this Sydney Olympics is shorter and the progress is much faster than in history.

Under Arthur's personal witness, it took only more than a month for track and field, swimming, cycling, shooting, gymnastics, wrestling, equestrianism, fencing, modern pentathlon, rowing, sailing, football and tennis to finally decide the winners and losers, which also means that the Olympic Games have entered the end.

The good news for Australasia is that the number of spectators for each event in this Olympics is more than 30,000, setting a new record.

Australasia has made preliminary statistics based on the number of tickets sold and the expected number of spectators. During this Olympics, a total of 2,433,251 tickets were sold, and the total number of spectators reached more than 410,000. Both the total number of tickets sold and the number of spectators have set a historical record.

These more than 2.43 million tickets have generated nearly 6 million Australian dollars in revenue for Australasia. Coupled with the consumption of these athletes and foreign tourists in Sydney, the government was surprised to find that it seemed that the cost of hosting this Olympics was not much.

Although it cost a lot of money to build the National Stadium of Australasia, the construction of the stadium is necessary and is also a demand brought about by the development of sports.

Overall, hosting this Olympics is absolutely worth the money. The Australasia government and the royal family paid nearly 15 million Australian dollars for this Olympics.

At present, the ticket revenue alone has recovered 6 million Australian dollars. If you count the fame and influence that this Olympic Games has brought to Australasia, the money spent is not a loss at all.

Arthur is even planning to wait until the end of World War I to see if there is a chance to hold another Olympic Games.

Or organize some other sports events, anyway, you can still make money by selling tickets, and you can also find more entertainment facilities and activities for Australasia.

Thinking of this, Arthur has already had the idea of ​​organizing a national sports meeting across Australasia.

However, the Olympic Games have just ended, and there is no need for another national sports meeting to take the lead for the time being.

In this Olympic Games, the competition at the sports level is still quite fierce.

The current sports politics are not small, which also means that in terms of sports competitions, athletes from various countries are under certain pressure, and even received instructions from their own governments before departure.

For these athletes, they have the expectations of their own people and the pressure from the government.

The best way is to win a gold medal or defeat athletes from their hostile countries in a certain sports competition, so that they can have a better explanation to the people and the government.

For this Games, Australasia issued a medal list, and the International Olympic Committee specifically announced that the number of medals won by each country in this Olympics will be recorded in history and recorded in the Olympic Games medal list.

This also means that those who have an advantage in medals in this Olympics will also have a certain advantage in the Olympic Games medal list.

As the host of this Olympics, Australasia naturally has an absolute advantage in the medal competition.

In the several sports competitions added by Australasia, the gold, silver and bronze medals are naturally all Australasia athletes.

At this time, there is no rule that a country cannot win three medals in one event, gold, silver and bronze. Australasia has the advantage of being the host country, so it can naturally train for the newly added events in advance, and it is natural that it can win all the medals.

In the medal list of the Sydney Olympics, which is also the total medal list of the Olympic Games, Australasia has an absolute advantage and won a total of 71 medals.

Among these 71 medals, there are 31 gold medals, 24 silver medals, and 16 bronze medals. The number of gold medals and silver medals ranked first in this Olympics, and the number of bronze medals ranked second in this Olympics.

The second place in the medal list is the United States across the ocean. The Americans won a total of 61 medals, with 23 gold medals, 19 silver medals and 19 bronze medals. The number of gold and silver medals of the Americans ranked second in the world, and the number of bronze medals ranked first in the world. It is the country with the most medals after Australasia.

The third place in the medal list is naturally the British Empire, the world's first power. It is impossible for the British Empire to fall out of the top three, which is also the confidence and strength of the British Empire as the world's first power.

The British Empire won a total of 41 medals, including 10 gold medals, 15 silver medals and 16 bronze medals, and the number of gold, silver and bronze medals ranked third in the world.

The fourth place in the medal list is Finland, which won 9 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 9 bronze medals, a total of 26 medals.

The fifth is France, with 7 gold medals, 4 silver medals and 3 bronze medals, a total of 14 medals.

The sixth is Germany, with 5 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 7 bronze medals, a total of 25 medals.

In this Olympic Games, a total of 18 countries won medals, accounting for nearly half of the countries participating in the Olympic Games.

It is worth mentioning that all the powerful countries won medals. On the one hand, they do have more population and economy, and can also develop sports at all costs.

Secondly, as a powerful country, unless they have become corrupt, they should also win a medal.

The ranking rules of the medal table are very simple. Priority is given to the number of gold medals. If the number of gold medals is the same, it is ranked according to the number of silver medals. If the number of silver medals is the same, it is ranked according to the number of bronze medals.

Overall, this Olympics is relatively fair. The referees of various events are basically provided by the International Olympic Committee and Australasia.

Australasia ranks first in the medal table and the total medal table, and other countries have basically no objection.

After all, this is also a recognized benefit of the host of the Olympic Games. As the host of the Olympic Games, it is free to choose to add several new sports.

Generally speaking, the host of the Olympic Games will choose the events that their country is good at, and even some events that only their country has. In this case, it is impossible not to win the first place in the medal table.

Many records were naturally created in the Olympic Games. After all, with the development of sports, the training of athletes has become more formalized.

The investment of various countries in sports events is getting higher and higher, which also leads to the improvement of the level of athletes. It is natural to break records in sports competitions.

Of course, the real reason why many records were broken in this Olympic Games is that all the results of this Olympic Games will be recorded in the history of the Olympic Games.

The previous record-breaking did not even make news, but the record-breaking in the Sydney Olympic Games will really be remembered in the history of the Olympic Games.

Unless the later ones break the record again, the record-breakers of this Olympic Games will always be the record holders, and along with the record itself, they will be remembered by humans for decades.

The athletes also recognized the results of this Olympic Games. After all, this Olympic Games used more advanced electronic timing and end-point camera equipment. For these equipment, Australasia spent a lot of money.

This also made the results of this Olympic Games, especially the results of track and field, more formal and accurate to 0.1 seconds.

This is also the real reason why the results of this Olympic Games will be officially recognized by the International Olympic Committee and recorded in history.

With the dual technical support of electronic timing and finish-line video, it can ensure that the results achieved by athletes are correct, and there will be basically no deviation caused by human factors.

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