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Originally posted by -Jrabbit
Medals per capita or medals per athlete.
Jamaica FTW!
For Athens 2004, I did a comparison of all the medal winning countries, ranked by medals won per capita, and posted it here. I awarded 3 points for Gold, 2 for Silver and 1 for Bronze. I used the latest CIA Factbook figures for population.
I checked the archives but the thread is not there.
I'd be willing to do a similar comparison for these games, once they're over.
It's quite interesting. I recall New Zealand, Australia, Norway and Jamaica being at or near the top of the 2004 table. India was dead last.
Strictly speaking, medals per athlete is a poor metric, as it penalizes countries for having athletes that meet the minimum criteria. As many sports have minimum criteria (ie, track/field, and I believe swimming) to go to the olympics (even if you're the #1 female runner in the Vatican, you still have to do 10k in less than 31 minutes (or whatever) to go to the olympics); and other sports have qualifying matches pre-olympics to get in (football does, I believe?).
Medals per capita could be interesting, but I think at the end of the day, medal totals - however calculated - are more reasonable. I definitely think silver/bronze should count for something, but I'm not sure what.
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seeing as some of these sports require ample capital contributions in order to become competitive
or
Au%GDP Gold Medal Count per % of total Medal Count won by the country per GDP
sort of normalizing towards how successful you are at converting your investment into successful medals; efficiency
or, even better,
Au%PERCAPGDP = Au%GDP/population
This way you can gauge the potential talent pool of the country in relationship to it's ability to field gold medalist.
I find it interesting that Jamaica is not really a contender in rowing or swimming, but is great at running. While Serbia and other countries not noted for great beaches or water do well in these events.
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Counting in Winter Olympics medals, Liechtenstein is surely the winner. A country of thirty-something thousand people has so far secured nine Olympic medals.
NBC's coverage of the Olympics is hugely US biased. It is to the point where it actually bothers me, but I will give them this, their overall coverage seems a lot better this year than 4 ago.
China is owning these games, the US is still clinging to the fact that it is #1.
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As alluded to above, the US is doing about the same as 4 years ago. China's taking the medals from the likes of Russia.
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I enjoy watching the Olympics (that being the actual events). The medal count stuff is just a waste of time, and it's rather sad that people care about it at all.
Originally posted by Aeson
I enjoy watching the Olympics (that being the actual events). The medal count stuff is just a waste of time, and it's rather sad that people care about it at all.
QFT ... (though my event-watching enjoyment varies by my boredom level)
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