Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Olympic medal count

Athletes from the big medal-producing countries at the Olympic Games–China, USA, and Britain–certainly deserve congratulations. But, to find countries that did really well, you have to look at the medal count relative to population. Here’s a graph showing exactly that: Interestingly, over half of this Top Ten list are post-colonial nations, from either the Soviet or British Empiresolympic medal

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