But for some people who are idle and like to gossip, such as me, the explanation is that there must be something wrong with this well-known common sense Everything must be told by facts, so I checked the information about the international Olympic Games on English Wikipedia and the website of the International Olympic Committee. As a result, there have been many unexpected figures and examples, which prove a point that I have always adhered to: what people take for granted is often based on facts that are not so solid.
First of all, China is indeed the team with the largest total score and medals for the first time so far. Since 1985, the total score has been 17 times, and the number of gold medals in the team has been 1 1 time. (The gold medals are distributed according to the number of people, and the first 12 participants win the gold medals. )
However, this does not mean that China can remain unbeaten all the time. In recent years, China's total score was surpassed by Bulgaria in 2003 and Russia in 2007, while the United States won the gold medal for the second time with a score of 20 1 1, which was the same as that of China.
Secondly, there are some outstanding athletes and teams in the history of international Olympic mathematics, but I have turned it over for a long time, and there is no sign of China, at most, China.
The only time in the history of the international Olympic Games that the United States scored a perfect score was 1994. Originally, the Luxembourg team also set a record of 198 1, but that time the Luxembourg team had only one player.
When it comes to individual players, the deeds of these people can blind you.
Reed Barton of the United States was the first player to win four gold medals (1998, 1999, 2000, 200 1). He has also won four Putnam Science Awards, and he is the only person in history who has won both the International Olympics and the International Informatics Olympics. Moreover, the gold medal winner of informatics won twice, and the total score of 200 1 was the first (600 points and 580 points), 55 points more than the second. This man later joined the ACM competition team at MIT and won the second and fifth place.
The other two players who won four gold medals were German Christian Reier and Lisa Sauermann. The former won another silver medal and the latter a bronze medal. Ciprian Manolescu of Romania is the only person who got three full marks (1995, 1996, 1997) in the history of Olympic mathematics, and he also got three Putnam Fellow. Evgeniya Malinikova of the Soviet Union was the winner of the highest score for women, with two full marks (42 points) and one score of 4 1, which was the highest score before Manolescu. Tao Zhexuan, an Australian Chinese, is the youngest winner of bronze medal, silver medal and gold medal in IMO history. His age is 10,10 and 13 respectively. Noam Elkis is the youngest winner of full marks, only 198 1 year old.
I have discussed this problem with my classmates who are familiar with the situation in the university. There are problems in the selection methods and competition opportunities of China's Olympic teams, which are not open to all ages. After being selected, you can only have 1-2 years to participate in the competition. It is impossible for foreign countries to participate at a young age, with as many as 5 medals. In the history of IMO, only one person won more than three medals, and none of them came from Chinese mainland.
But I think, if you think that the competition system of the Olympic Games hinders your talent, there will always be opportunities for you to let go later in college (besides, how do you explain the fierce man who won the Olympic champion in informatics? )。 There are 40 winners of Fields Medal, Wolff Prize, Gartner Prize, Godel Prize and other major scientific awards in previous Olympic Games. Why is there still no China except Tao Zhexuan, an Australian Chinese? I don't think it's bad luck that I didn't win the Nobel Prize. Because these excellent students have no real scientific pursuit.
Moreover, among the 1, 5 1 China students who have participated in the Olympic Games, only seven are girls. Isn't it a bit sexist? Lisa Sauermann is a German player. She won five medals, including four gold medals, and got the only perfect score last year. She is also a sister.
Generally speaking, China's achievements in the Olympic Games are excellent, but some of them are exaggerated. Moreover, this outstanding achievement belongs to the state and the collective, not the result of individual's free pursuit, and the system does not allow overly outstanding individuals. Therefore, China's achievements in the Olympic Games are in fact consistent with the disappointing achievements of international scientific awards such as the Nobel Prize. Once the International Mathematical Olympiad awards prizes based on individual outstanding performance and creativity, rather than team achievements, just like the Nobel Prize,