The way that the olympics place countries is in the amount of gold medals your country wins. Another way you can order the top 10 countries is by alphabetical order. (I never said it would be fair). Another way is the total amount of medals your country wins.
The way it would affect the scores on the table is that the countries that have a first letter in the alphabet that is far down in the alphabet would be low in the ranking. It would take the fun of the olympics for those countries because they have no chance of winning. Then my second reason is that we should place the countries by how many medals they win altogether not how many gold medals they win. This is because a country may be able to easily get heaps of bronze and silver medals but still loose because they have very few gold medals. If they order countries according to how many medals they have altogether it would give other countries a chance of winning.