How the International Olympic Committee saw the final Olympic rankings.
How the American broadcaster NBC saw the rankings
Still, at least they’re agreed on one thing: Great Britain came a magnificent fourth.
That’s above Australia.
Got that, Bruce?
(Hat-tip to John Lynch.)
It depends on whether you prefer quantity to quality. One step forward all you Americans, please.
I would have said that I preferred “Golds per head of population”, since that clearly puts us ahead of US, China and Russia. The down-side of that one is that we fall behind Australia, which simply won’t do.
Oooh me statistics.
I seem to remember a smallCaribbean island, many olympics ago. They sent one competitor (weightlifter?) from a population of about 1300 & he won a medal. That must be the highest success rate ever!