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Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Thursday, 11 March 2010
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Olympic medals per capita
Everyone counts Olympic medals by country, but I think it should be done per capita (that is, we should take into account the population of the country, by dividing the number of medals won by the total population). Here's the most-medaled 20 countries expressed on the basis of medals per million people.
By this measure, Canada did better than China, the United States, or the Russian Federation (the top three countries by number of medals)....but Jamaica comes out far and away the best.
An even better measure might be medal winners per capita: that is, we shouldn't count multiple medal winners more than once. However, that would be a pain to calculate. It is also not clear how to deal appropriately with team sports, where you get a lot of medalists but only one medal counted.
Medal count came from here. Populations came from here.
Update: It has been pointed out to me that the Bahamas actually has a higher per capita medal count than Jamaica, which I missed because they actually had very few medals. They got 2 medals, but got them from a population of just 331,000, for a medal per million score of 6.04.
A commentator pointed out this nice website that graphs medals per million citizens, among other relations.
By this measure, Canada did better than China, the United States, or the Russian Federation (the top three countries by number of medals)....but Jamaica comes out far and away the best.An even better measure might be medal winners per capita: that is, we shouldn't count multiple medal winners more than once. However, that would be a pain to calculate. It is also not clear how to deal appropriately with team sports, where you get a lot of medalists but only one medal counted.
Medal count came from here. Populations came from here.
Update: It has been pointed out to me that the Bahamas actually has a higher per capita medal count than Jamaica, which I missed because they actually had very few medals. They got 2 medals, but got them from a population of just 331,000, for a medal per million score of 6.04.
A commentator pointed out this nice website that graphs medals per million citizens, among other relations.
Saturday, 23 August 2008
Olympics Design
Think the olympics was easy on China because it lasts only 2 weeks? Think again. A nice series of videos have been made to say so: The Bird's Nest, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The World's Biggest Airport: 1, 2, 3 and 4 5? And also, the start of the Biggest Dam Part 1 of 9, A huge Railway and the Beijing Final Countdown refer to the Related Videos for the other parts. All in China. Photo is of the Beijing Airport here.
Sunday, 10 August 2008
Olympics
If you want to learn about the 2008 olympics there are many links to do so, Overall Medal Standings, Beijing 2008, Olympics.org to learn more about olympic sports go here, the Official Mascots and on Wikipedia.org (most information). Photo here.
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