It's surprising how bad the USA is at Olympic sports given how big and rich it is, and surprising how bad China is given its size.
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The Olympic medal table if the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland and Portugal (total population about the same as USA, 25% of China) competed as one country.pic.twitter.com/x8BD9ope6D
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It's nothing to do with money - GDP per capita of these countries is about 2/3 that of the USA, and that's with Ireland inflating the statistics with its low corporate tax rate.
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Is there a finite number of spots per event from each country?
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Exactly
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San Marino has a population of 30k and won a gold medal. So they are technically the most efficient nation in existence. So to Even compete on there level your pretend Europe would need to win 10,000 gold medals.
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Good point! San Marino for next president of the EC, EU and ECB?
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Needs to be normalized by each country's CB M2 or balance sheet...
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It's like saying you have the best soccer team because you get to play with 25 people on the field
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It's ... nothing like that at all? You could send twenty competitors to compete against Usain Bolt in the 100m and he would still win.
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Count the # of athletes. USA - 613 Above together - 425+398+376+372+320+121+116+106+92 = 2326. Kind of a no-brainer they won more medals.
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If the USA could send more athletes, by definition they would be sending ones that are worse than they already sent, at best they might scoop a couple more bronzes in the events where they already won gold and silver.
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