Our US friends see the Olympic Medal table differently (aussie.zone)

submitted 3 months ago by Nath@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone

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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.

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[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

I wonder how medal tally per capita would work out. Surely Australia would be up there. 🤔

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months 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 5 points 3 months 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 2 points 3 months 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.

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