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The top 10 (pending Iceland’s Sunday medal):
1. Bahamas (2) - 153,725
2. Jamaica (11) - 254,939
3. Slovenia (5) - 401,542
4. Australia (46) - 447,844
5. New Zealand (9) - 463,717
6. Norway (10) - 464,445
7. Armenia (6) - 494,764
8. Cuba (22) - 519,270
9. Trinidad & Tobago (2) - 523,683
10. Belarus (18) - 538,097
Selected others (from 86 countries with medals):
11. Estonia (2) - 653,802
14. Latvia (3) - 748,474
25. Great Britain (47) - 1,296,678
29. South Korea (31) - 1,588,156
30. France (38) - 1,685,730
31. Ukraine (27) - 1,701,640
35. Germany (41) - 2,009,013
36. Russia (69) - 2,039,160
39. Spain (16) - 2,528,193
44. United States (107) - 2,839,482
67. China (96) - 13,854,630
81. Sudan (1) - 40,218,455
Olympic medals per GDP
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/medals_per_capita/index.html
http://www.stubbornmule.net/2008/08/olympic-update/
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
is there a gold medal breakdown?
go NZ!!
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I'm proud of Australia. Go Aussies!
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Vatican City State1872 Posts
this is a really worthless and pointless graph/whatever
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Really? I think it's a great graph! Go Australia + NZ. Basically it shows that despite a much lower population (21m for Australia), we get medals. Ergo: We have a much lower possibility of getting naturally better people, but we do well anyway.
Gogo Australia, slighty gogo NZ
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
this is probably one of the few times that aussie have placed higher than NZ iirc 
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
w/e noobs.
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On August 24 2008 20:27 Plexa wrote:this is probably one of the few times that aussie have placed higher than NZ iirc You're right, NZ has a much higher Sheep per capita than Australia!
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that was hilarious....Zzz
Australia wins a lot because it spends a lot
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it shows the regional specializations of sports. e.g. all of Jamaica's 11 medals came from track, 34 or Australia's 46 medals came from water related events
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Norway28781 Posts
i think this list is better than the unadjusted one! 
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Means nothing really, I bet you the poorest Countries spend more on their athletes than Canada does so the graph has 0 relevance. A lot of Countries take the Olympics very seriously, others such as Canada do not 
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Honestly, People make those graphs to feel good about themselves.
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So that's why Mugabe ran Zimbabwe into the ground.
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On August 24 2008 20:17 CrownRoyal wrote:
this is a really worthless and pointless graph/whatever
eh I don't know. I'm sad obviously that USA isn't placed higher,
+ Show Spoiler + USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
however in a way I guess it's pretty cool to see the medal count in this format, since obviously the countries with a much larger pool of talent will almost always dominate in most sports (and in turn have the highest medal count). Although I will admit that due to the incredible imbalance between populations this is still an inaccurate way of judging talent though since a country like China would probably need to win every Olympic medal to be in the top 10.
It was a good idea though.
Oh, and the medals per GDP is completely worthless imo...
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go norway, with only 4,5 million ppl, 10 medals
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On August 24 2008 22:56 Falcynn wrote:
Oh, and the medals per GDP is completely worthless imo...
I find it to be very interesting
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now i wonder how many of those athletes from these countries actually train in the USA
i know a bunch of the jamaican sprinters do
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