A Conversation for The Olympics: A Slightly Different View

Yet another way of doing it...

Post 1

Whisky

I've seen another medals table somewhere where they've taken the number of medals won by a country against the country's GDP, which makes interesting reading... Completely inverses a lot of the list, with many of the african nations appearing right at the top.


Yet another way of doing it...

Post 2

Rod

Yes indeed, gives a whole different perspective. But then, you can rearrange things by counting all medals together or by scoring 3-2-1 for Gold-Silver-Bronze-tinfoil- or whatever.
By population:
http://www.medalspercapita.com/
By GDP and pop:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/sport/olympics/medal-tally-gdp-population/

Grenada is impressive, though.



What would it look like by number of Lawyers?


Yet another way of doing it...

Post 3

Elektragheorgheni -Please read 'The Post'

Do you mean lawyers as atheletes, Rod? Sorry I just missed the connection there.


Yet another way of doing it...

Post 4

Rod

smiley - erm no connection, just me sillying


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