Researchers who study rankings say such discrepancies are inevitable with something as arbitrary as an Olympics medal table.
WSJ: 2012 London Olympics: Do Gold Medals Matter More Than Total Medals?
That would propel Russia slightly ahead of Great Britain in the medal table.
WSJ: 2012 London Olympics: Do Gold Medals Matter More Than Total Medals?
Canada now top the medal table with 13 golds, seven silvers and five bronzes for a total of 25.
Ironically, Canada top the medal table in every country which ranks golds won above total medals won - which theirs doesn't!
Norway topped the gold medal table in 2002 with 13, and it wasn't simply because kids there grow up on cross-country skis.
We are amazed when we look at the medal table and see Team GB in third place behind China and the USA. Can that be right?
Each time we look at the medal table, we are encouraged to believe that we still have the capacity to punch above our weight in the world.
India - 55th in the London medal table - simply is not that interested in playing this arena, despite having so many other traits of emerging greatness.
Former cricket umpire Dickie Bird, from Barnsley, said the realisation that Yorkshire was doing so well in the medal table was a tribute to the region's "absolutely brilliant" athletes.
Whereas the Olympic-medal table tends to reflect the global pecking order with the United States invariably at the top in football the Americans are amiable also-rans, last time beaten by Iran.
The BOA has previously come under fire for setting what its critics consider an overly-optimistic a target of fourth place in the overall medal table at the London Olympics.
Meanwhile, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson predicted British Paralympians had a strong chance of coming second in the Games' medal table, although she added that China would be dificult to beat.
As Great Britain continues to climb the actual medal table, it also tops a more dubious medal count one not measured in gold, silver and bronze, but in lead, tin and zinc.
Her triumph has been met with acclaim across Britain, which is third in the medal table with 22 golds -- three more than at Beijing 2008, with four days to go.
"Jamaica is now ranked number one in the medal table and that's not bad for a country with a population around the same size as that of the west Midlands, " said the BBC's Nick Davis in Kingston, Jamaica.
In this day and age, when Britain sometimes struggles to justify its status as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council or as a "major player on the world stage", the medal table may prove to be a more accurate measure of international standing than the size, for example, of the GDP or the armed forces.
Shiffrin's victory is the U.S.'s fourth of the championships -- adding to Ted Ligety's wins in the Super-G, the Giant Slalom and the Super Combined -- and consolidates their place at the top of the medal's table with a total of four gold and one bronze.
Few now challenge the validity Geng's transfer of loyalties, or that of another table tennis medal contender Johnny Huang, who made the same transcontinental cross-cultural upheaval.
China beat South Korea to take the gold medal in the men's team table tennis final, and the bronze went to Germany.
It won every gold medal available in low-vote sports like table tennis and badminton but couldn't win a single "big state" sport.
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