I wonder how medal tally per capita would work out. Surely Australia would be up there. 🤔
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Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 month ago
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.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 month ago
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
Nath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
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.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 month ago
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.
palitu@aussie.zone 1 month ago
And India?
Nath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
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.
palitu@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hahaha, There is that.