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| Topic | 2020 Summer Olympics - Results and Discussion |
| Fiop 07/24/21 8:37:03 PM #101: | Yesmar_ posted... We actually *under*perform when taking all that into account. At the last Olympics the US won 3x the medals of Germany and France, despite having ~4x the population of Germany, and ~5x the population of France. Look at any other similar Western country and the US almost always underperforms in the medal comparisons relative to population.I mean this is kinda true but think about if the US was split into, say, 5 different countries. Would you expect those five countries to get more individual medals or fewer? I think youd get more just by virtue of being able to potentially send more people overall to compete. Medals involving team sports could take a hit in that case, theoretically, since talented players might be split up. --- "Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images" - Romans 1:22-23 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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