If I speak why that happens, I’m in big trouble
First rank them by medals per capita then multiply the ranks by the amount of medals won divided by the total number of athletes each country sent to compete for those medals.
Damn USA is fucking amazing.
Kind of puts Australias argument to sleep, quiet on that per capita bs
Our argument? Why is it our argument?
Bangladesh has 0 medals, but when I saw this, it came to my mind that the 2016 Olympic champion in rhythmic gymnastics Margarita Mamun is half-Bangladeshi, and if she competed for that country (instead of Russia), they could have one gold medal.
Goes to show how much public infrastructure is necessary to develop athletes. That and money.
Bangladesh has some other shit going on, and has for decades tbh.
U. S. A.!!!
Here come folk who insist population has nothing to do with it.
But it does. It’s just one variable. The other variables are funding, culture, women’s rights etc. To deny population as a key contributor is naive as fuck.
did you record all the medals of the USSR in Russia? Is this a joke? These are joint medals of 14 republics. Russia has existed since 1991 and I don’t remember it winning 600 gold medals in 33 years.
I never truly understood the population gap between China and the US until right now
Bangladesh get your act together please.
We got bigger problems right now.
Zero medals in history… sounds like you’ve always had bigger problems.
That would not be an inaccurate statement.
Plus culturally sports is seen as something for children and parents think it’s a distraction from your education. Wish there was a change in culture to seeing it as a part of your education but i doubt that happens anytime soon.
Given the mess that they’re in right now, it would be a long time before they got their act together.
Dang, Russia has dropped off. They used to be 4th not long ago.
They never fully recovered from ww2, insane population loss of young, healthy men and women
They were 4th in the early 2000’s and at one point had a population larger than the USA when they were the USSR.
Not to mention the Cold War and they very much recovered from WWII.
I think the Russian Empire/USSR always had a larger population than the US.
Russia’s birth rate is below replacement level and that number probably still counts the 500,000+ dead buried (or not) in Ukraine.
In a generation this list will be full of sub Saharan African states too.
Just realized it was all time. I was wondering why I didn’t hear of Indonesia’s 10 gold in Paris lol
This graphic tells volumes about the world, its population, its problems and the fairness of distributed wealth.
Even if it seems to only talk about sports.