therawfeed.com — Yahoo! Sports says the United States is "winning" the overall medal count and that China is winning the gold-medal count. But simply counting medals is like comparing national math ability among students in different countries not by averaging test scores, but adding them up. When you "normalize" for population and medal "quality," Australia wins.
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mikelganAug 17, 2008Submitter
India puts all its sports enthusiasm into a single sport -- cricket -- which inexplicably isn't an Olympic event. Plus, of the five major factors that lead to Olympic greatness: 1. Population2. Per-capita income3. State control of Olympic training4. Cultural tradition of sport5. Gender equalityIndia is advantaged by only Population.
Closed AccountAug 17, 2008
but in this case, only the Number of medals count.
herbiehancock00Aug 17, 2008
Cuz Stephanie Rice is hot.
shogiAug 18, 2008
I've got absolutely nothing against Australia, but this is absurd. A silly system (that doesn't even account for his own "important" variables) applied to an already cut and dry evaluation. I understand the reasoning, (if country A was as big as country B, what would the count be) but it is incomplete and does not equate to "domination", it's more of a medaling percentage of the poulation. All this really does is handicap the larger countries just because they have more people. Dominating the olympics is about one thing and one thing only: having the most medals. If some tiny country with a population in the low thousands wins even 2 or 3 medals, they come out with some ridiculously high score.If you wanted a more useful analysis, take the number of medals and divide by the number of athletes. Closest to 1 wins for most successful athletic delegation.
luweezAug 18, 2008
You don't win by using the wrong "you're" either :PFor future reference, here's a helpful link: <a class="user" href="http://www.wikihow.com/Use-You%27re-and-Your">http://www.wikihow.com/Use-You%27re-and-Your</a>
gforemanAug 13, 2009
Awesome!Good ol' Aussies. Some decent names in the top 10 of all time too:<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/other_sports/Australia_s_top_10_sportspeople_of_all_time_PerthNow" rel="nofollow">http://digg.com/other_sports/Australia_s_top_10_sp ...</a>