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Medals Per Million

Posted on August 26, 2008

Olympics achievement on a per capita basis. by Eric de PlaceForget the showdown between the United States and China, the real battle was between the Bahamas and Iceland.Certainly nobody reported the Olympics that way, but isn't there something unfair about tallying medals without regard to population? China's athletes, drawn from a pool of 1.3 billion people, match up against American athletes from a pool about one-quarter as big. Though of course we Americans love to lionize our athletic prowess -- measured in total medals won -- against nations only a fraction of our size.I mean, is it...

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