This is just sad; I don't even know what channel aired this (if it's America's or not) but I feel secondhand embarrassment just looking at this from how desperate this is.
The actual count
Correction: literally this one
Needs the ghost of Harold Holt patting them on the back but we can just say he's invisible
I'm pretty sure countries don't get to send an amount of athletes in a direct relation to their population?
Yeah, China only gets to send one Olympic team.
i mean if you chose the 5 best athletes in a middle-of-buttfuck-nowhere town to compete against the 5 best athletes in a city of a million people who do you think would win?
Its channel nine. An Australian network.
they've got the exclusive streaming rights in aus lol
I think Stan Sports also has it. That's a streaming platform so it's probably nine for broadcast and Stan for streaming
Nine owns Stan
I actually didn't know that. That explains it
You are like a little baby. Watch this: https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-sports-analytics/jsa240874
There is no Olympics Australia has not won.
change filipinos to us
By that metric, Saint Lucia has 8 gold per 1.44 million residents.
Wanna know something funny? Remember all the weird doping allegations the west is pushing on China with 0 evidence?
They caught a famous American athlete and they snitched on the entire operation, with multiple other high profile athletes involved. Previous Olympic events, etc.
You’ve gotta try harder than that, man. The propaganda is making a mockery out of itself.
Ah but did you consider that hypothetically, the bad country could be doing it? Checkmate Tankie :smuglord: !
is it time to ban the US from the olympics?
Israel should have been banned a LONG time ago
This is like how right after Oct. 7th Israeli officials tried to argue that it was like 50x worse than 9/11 because more people died per capita measured against the full population of both countries.
Measuring the ethics of genocide in megadeaths per capita
This some sense, but not that much sense - it doesn’t matter if your country has a hundred thousand people or a billion, there’s only so many events, and a maximum number of athletes per country per event that can be sent. Sure, a larger population increases the chances that a talent can be identified and trained, but peak human performance only has so much variance.
true, except
crackers never take into account "resources per capita" or "food/land per capita" because it would demolish their narrative
It's really silly, because it is impressive that Australia is 3rd after the USA and China. Just settle for that.
Since I'm a nerd who recently figured out you could just copy and paste Libeoffice tables into the comments, I'm going to post a table of all participating countries/regions sorted by gold medal per athlete when the Olympics are done.
This is an earlier table:
we cannot be doing this cringe after spending all of week 1 (as per usual) roasting the great satan for ordering by total medals instead of by gold priority
Anything they can do we can also do but slightly more pathetic
Ordering by total medals is at least a normal way of ordering things that is useful information. This isn't any of those things.
Sure, I mean, this is an interesting metric. And it's not like Australia's a tiny nation that got lucky with one athlete. It's definitely something to brag about along with countries that brag about total medals and total golds.
There's so many interesting metrics. The real cream of the crop metric is which country has the most WR and OR. You could get gold and still be mediocre with mediocre competition relative to the history of the sport, but world record is world record.
The US has a formidable amount of Olympic records even if you account for number of athletes send. And South Korea has an elite crop of athletes. Based on a table I've created from an earlier date, they have the best gold/athlete ratio, and from a quick scan, their number of OR is really impressive. They have half the OR of the US but only have a third of the number of athletes the US has.
Euro desparation for relevance as the former world hegemon and the current dog of the dying world hegemon.
I say let them have it. They don't have much else going on. It is actually quite impressive.
Now do it by purchasing power parity per capita!
now control for the fact that swimming has too many medals
If you didn’t want Australia to win the most medals per capita then you shouldn’t have made being racist an Olympic sport
Per capita is divided by total number of participating athletes right? 
People were literally making jokes about this concept on here like a week ago
There was something I came across years ago about how countries with a larger population were more likely to win the World Cup. There are a lot of things that go into this though.
Hindu nationalists reeling.
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