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 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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There's a lot of cope from American in the comments, pointing out the combined European team has more athletes. If you think medals per athlete is a better comparison, by that measure China dominates the US with 0.09 vs 0.06 golds/athlete and 0.22 vs 0.18 total medals/athlete.
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You ignore multiple entries in one entry (team) sports, the luck advantage of having more competitors in multiple entry sports and Brexit.
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Sir I would never ignore Brexit.
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Maybe they’d do better if it was the World Series of Athletics.
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In the States, this is what we call “moving the goal posts”
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