It is surprising how difficult to find the latest official updates of medal counts from the Beijing 2008 Olympic.
After a Google search and ignoring all the scammers who try to make AdSense income, I finally found a list at Yahoo Sports, but the one that is most up-to-date is the 2008 Olympic Medal Count on Wikipedia. This further proves that people-power on the Internet is much faster and better, and Crowdsourcing is a practical and achievable future for project development.
As of 15:30 (HKT GMT+08:00), China is currently leading the medal count.