Vancouver Olympic medal calculations per capita, updated
Posted by turdslinger on February 27th, 2010 at 11:24 am
Given Canada’s gold resurgence, and the wishful argument that gold is really the medal that matters, I’ve added columns based on gold medals only.
For display I’ve broken it into three charts. The first based on total medals. The second based on gold medals. The third just showing the average quick ranking of the two.
I also fixed a mistake in the “Medals/10,000,000 People” formula, those numbers were wrong before (for some reason it was assuming everybody had exactly 24 medals).
As before, clicking will open the full image if it’s looking compressed in the main post.
Canada’s by far the biggest country near the top of that list, so maybe that’s an accomplishment? I guess the marketing was just off. Instead of “Own the podium” it should have been “Own the podium so far as mid-sized high income countries go when favouring gold medals in determining rank.” Yes!
Otherwise, Norway’s still kicking ass.
