Round 4 ended tonight with a record of 11 Gold Medalists in two categories. The task was the number of out going links to other bloggers in a given post.

There were eleven gold medals awarded and no bronze medals this round. Forty four people participated in this round.

Congratulations to the following for their gold medal performance!

Thursday Thirteen
1) 81 - Whiskey Talking
2) 60 - Running2KS
3) 51 - Renee
4) 50 - Practigal
5) 34 - KDubs

Non Thursday Thirteen
1) 75 - Pure Mood
2) 32 - Green Tuna
3) 30 - Samantha
4) 27 - Jake
5) 26 - Novaks8
5) 26 - Shelli

There were 31 silver medalists.

Round 5, which deals in marketing has already drawn complaints about faulty equipment and will most certainly lead to formal complaints to the IOBC.

When questioned about the accuracy of the equipment and the skill level of the users, the IOBC issued this statement. "We understand that there are some problems and we are currently doing out best to resolve this issue. Please be patient with us as we do not have all the data we need to properly examine this problem.

In unrelated news: Carol of A Revision posted this interesting bit of trivia concerning Silver Medals. "Most people would assume the silver medal winners would be happier than the bronze medalists since they received a higher honor, but that wasn'’t the case. The bronze medalists, who came in third place, were found to be happier than the silver medalists, who finished in second place.

The former Olympians explained how they felt about their medals. The third-place winners were thrilled just to have won a medal. The silver medalists, on the other hand, felt like losers because they didn'’t come in first. (From the book "I Once Was Blind but Now I Squint." by Kent Crockett.)

The International Olympic Blogging Committee would like to commend all participating bloggers and states the sole purpose of these games are for entertainment and educational purposes.

Final Round of competition begins tomorrow evening at 10 P.M.