Posted on 08/08/2021 5:10:15 PM PDT by Jim W N
Scores for first ten teams are below in Comment #1, based on Value of Each Medal Category (Gold=5 points, Silver=3 points, and Bronze = 1 point) x Number of Medals in Each Medal Category.
But first a word about the Olympics. The Olympics is one of the few chances for nations to come together peacefully and, actually joyfully, to compete. National pride and sovereignty as well as individual skill and prowess is on display.
The Olympics is for people like me who like sports, watching skill in action, the human drama of individuals striving for and reaching life-long goals, and fun in general.
If that doesn’t do it for you, then just remember, the Olympics cerebrates national sovereignty, distinction, and identity which are major factors in the existence of individual freedom in the world - obviously in some nations more than others.
The Do-gooder and Delusional Left doesn’t like national pride and distinction because that gets in the way of their dream of Worldwide Totalitarian Government, which is why they don’t like the U.S and want to blur the competitive edge between nations in the Olympics.
If you have zero interest in any of those things, then go find something in which you are interested.
Exactly.
One of Alec Baldwin's best performances!
I mean, one of Arec Bardwin's best performances!
Bruce’s kid almost blew it for the USA. She is the reason the US team finished with the Silver instead of the Gold, that could have cost the US the title for Gold Medals.
In your filthy, commie faces CCP!
The television network that tried to make money off the Olympics are the enemies of America...
Again, Impy, by the right measurement - each medal value x each medal count - the U.S has been ahead for a few days and I think for most of the Games. I don’t buy the media’s new way of just counting medals.
There were Olympics?
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I do not know, never saw any!
China’s total is a lot less impressive per capita of course, since they have at least four times the population of the U.S. ... that lets in the comparison of each other nation’s medal total on a per capita basis. On that basis, countries like Australia and Canada probably finished either close to or above the U.S., then how about Jamaica, with a population about 1 per cent of the USA, winning quite a few track medals.
These total medals per country are always presented as being meaningful but without some sort of scaling factor they are meaningless, one would expect Brazil to do better than Uruguay for example. France is going to come out higher than Denmark. It doesn’t mean those are “better” sporting countries. In fact it probably doesn’t mean anything at all.
Congrats to the individuals who won Olympic medals wherever they call home. I watch it more from the point of view of a chance to see top athletic competition, the country stuff is a bit of a bore frankly. The fact that Canada now has the Olympic 200 meter champion does not mean that most of us can run 200 meters faster than you can. I don’t know if we can or not, nor do I care really.
Ahead on Golds I meant. ;-d
Didn’t watch one minute. Based upon ratings I was not alone
I simply feel meh. The left ate it.
The U.S. has long been the richest of the big countries and the biggest of the rich countries. That’s why we have dominated the Olympics in the modern era. But that is about to change. China has four times as many people and is now affluent enough to invest in competitive sports programs, which in the broad scheme of things are frivolous luxury goods. In terms of athletic potential, China is to the U.S. as the U.S. is to Germany. China is going to dominate future Olympics simply because their talent pool is so large. India could match China but India seems not to have much of an athletic culture.
But look at the events China medals in, most are events nobody even cares about. In the main Olympic events they are a non-factor.
I am so glad we did so well in the Academy Awards.
Me either.
I didn’t watch one second of it. Didn’t follow it. Don’t care about it.
Years ago I watched the olympics a lot.
Easy Team Handball 🤾 is not popular here, but it is a great game...
Was a lot of fun. They should all be very proud( except the PC clowns).
Gotta say I thought the closing ceremonies couldn’t have been more blah and anticlimactic.
I looked it up, the actual winner on a per capita basis was San Marino (3 medals, one per 11,310 population).
If you only look at “real” countries with significant populations, then it’s New Zealand and Jamaica doing the best.
The USA was 59th on this list.
I’m not entirely sure this would be the best framework but it’s hard to say how to balance the population factor, I mean let’s compare Canada (36th) and the USA, these are probably close to being equal so that the square root of population would come closer to being a good test.
Also if you’ve finished ahead of all countries with larger populations, that establishes a sort of chain of superior Olympic countries. That chain looks like this as all these countries finished higher per capita than any nation with larger populations:
1. San Marino
2. Bermuda
3. Grenada
4. Bahamas
5. New Zealand
5. Netherlands (9th)
6. Australia (14th)
7. Great Britain (26th)
8. France (40th)
9. Russia (41st)
10. USA (59th)
11. China (78th)
So these were the only nations who beat all larger than themselves, China of course has to be in the list. The only way for the USA to avoid the list is to finish below China and India as the fourth highest population goes to Indonesia which finished 91st of 93 (India 93rd, Nigeria 92nd).
How many of those athletes from other countries actually live and train in the US full-time?
You can pretty much pick the country you compete for now, even if you never lived there.
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