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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The US reserve athletes are by definition worse than the ones than the ones that qualified, so this only makes a difference in team events and a few cases where the US took gold and silver but didn’t have enough athletes to take bronze too. Nowhere near as big as you think.