please empty your brain below |
How about a table against GDP and population........sport is all about money nowadays isn'it? |
Great idea - but I may leave that until 2008, if you don't mind. |
Fair enough :D |
Hoorah for Australia! (and maybe money poured into athlete training and development should be factored into the equation for 2008 too) |
Perhaps countries who develop and supply banned substances could have their own league table. |
A coversation at The Coven during the closing ceremony last night went like this: BW: Those medal tables are all very well, but it would be much fairer if they did it on medals against a corrected comparative population wouldn't it? Mr BW: There's only one person I know who could work that out... But, I think you should do it to include silvers and bronzes too. |
I did think about silvers and bronzes, but how many bronze medals are equivalent to a silver, or to a gold? All too subjective. But it would knock China even further down the table - however did they manage to win so many golds and relatively few silvers and bronzes? |
Meta-Roj has a GDP per medal table, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics have also produced a medals per population table. |
Sigh - there's no such thing as a new idea these days, is there? Still, at least the Australian Bureau of Statistics and I agree about the new top 10. |
Dangnammit, Australia still beat NZ. |
Your alternative medal table is MUCH better. |
It seemed as if GB came fourth more times than any other country... |
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