Here's a nifty realtime Olympic medal tracker that allows you to sort by rank, country, total, gold, silver, and bronze medals. Too obvious for you? There are plenty of alternatives: medals
per capita ; medals by
GDP per capita; number of athletes and billions of dollars GDP
per medal (2008); and a discussion of alternative rankings with a sortable rankings
table. There is also a booming business in predictions that take into account GDP per capita, population size, and other factors:
FT;
BBC.
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posted by googly
on Jul 31, 2012 -
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