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Since the Olympic Games are finally over, it is time to see the results. Here are the 15 first countries of the Athens games. For fun, I calculated the actual number of medals/millions inhabitants ratio for the last 3 summer olympic games. The countries with the highest population (China, USA) don't look as good as with the raw medal count. European countries seems to establish themselves between 0.5 and 0.6 medals per milllion people. Australia and Cuba win the games easily, weird.
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I have a hypothesis about Cuba - perhaps they use the Olympics as a promotional tool, the way that the Soviet bloc did during the Cold War (and, to be honest, the way that the U.S. did during the Cold War).
I can't explain Australia, although it sounds like they have interesting fashion shows.
Posted by: Ontario Emperor at September 4, 2004 01:38 AMI think the secret is smoking cigars, it makes them healty;-)
Posted by: Sébastien at September 5, 2004 08:19 AM