I stumbled across a sports article from a US publication and thought it interesting that it showed the USA leading the medals table.
Instead of the regular table that gives weight to Gold, silver and bronze, they just see total medals.
I sorta like it. Celebrating all medal winners equally is nice. It feels a little like fudging the numbers, though.
That’s cause Americans are much like ruasians. They think they’re the best and unstoppable.
China should always be at the forefront of medal totals. They have such a huge population to pick from their best should be up there.
And India?
They only have two sports in India. Cricket and not-cricket. Of the two, cricket gets most of the money and almost all of the attention.
Hahaha, There is that.
I wonder how medal tally per capita would work out. Surely Australia would be up there. 🤔
That would be a really interesting metric.
America get one medal per every 9,008,108people
Australia gets one medal per 1,444,444 people
China is one medal per 58,833,333 people
So Australia is doing pretty well. I can’t be bothered doing it for any more countries right now though
I played with something like “medals per capita” once during the London Olympics. When you put them into that metric, Australia definitely punches above its weight, but I think New Zealand did even better.
So that’s objectively a worse measure then. We need a measure where were the best. Not NZ, not UK and not China or USA.
How about medals divided by average population density inversed, lol.