I’m having trouble finding a breakdown of total metals won by a country compared to how many opportunities they had to win a metal. For example, if a country put up a competitor in every single event and won X metals. Compared to if a country only put competitors in a few events and won X metals.

Mostly trying to do this to further compare U.S.A. and China. Because I didn’t see China in many of the track and field events and I know America won a lot of metals in those events and yet we are still tied for gold, so that is impressive on China I think. But there might be other events where China enters a lot of athletes and U.S.A. doesn’t.

Or does every country have an athlete compete in every event and every discipline but only the best make the initial cut?

Just curious if anyone has any further insight on this.