OT: The Real Olympic Medal Total (According To Me)
Ok, this was brought on by my wife who has never watched more than one or two events of the Olympics before. I watched it most nights so she was forced to. She was really bothered by the fact that the US had so many more Olympians than most countries. She kept saying "Of course we have the most medals, we have the most Olympians". I started thinking and decided to run the numbers of number of Olympians versus medals won. I completely expected some country with one Olympian to win a medal and blow this metric up, but it didn't happen.
Notes:
- I understand that some Olympians compete in more than one event, I didn't care. This is pure number of Olympians versus medals.
- Those Koreans sure can skate.
- Apparently two silver medals were handed out in some event and no bronze.
- This is my first time using live writer…it may take me a few tries to get the formatting correct.
- Let me know what you think.
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Edit: Normalized for Hockey. I Subtracted 22 for mens and 20 for womens and then added 1 for mens and 1 for womans.
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