Olympics: USA medals > Everyone else
Seeing the medal counts, is the rest of the world even trying?
try again amerifat
>>67507282
Why is measuring medals per capita a thing? I'm pretty sure there isn't too much of a correlation between population and medal count
>>67507324
This desu.
Per capita medals would only matter if you could bring more people because you had a bigger population
>>67507324
The only correlation is funding really. All you need is funding because 95% of Olympic "sports" are niche as fuck so the talent level is shit compared to established sports that actually have a following.
>>67507282
Per capita is irrelevant because of limits applied to Olympic participation.
>>67507282
>yfw the US would need 20,000 olympic medals to be #1
>>67507324
It assumes that a country with more people can produce more athletes, which can in turn win more medals. Although being a good athlete isn't exactly a random variable, having good training facilities as well as genetics has some factor in how well an athlete turns out to be. GDP per medal would be a marginally better way to rank things, but even that doesn't cover all the factors that make an athlete.
>>67507452
or a civil war
>>67507476
>>67507529
>>67507112
We're trying really hard tbqh just America is BIG and STRONG and good at sports and stuff
>Satanic bronze medals
The olympics are literally (literally) a bunch of third tier athletes (at best) competing at sports no one cares about
>>67507529
this is overall last was for London 2012
>>67507586
>>67507529
>>67507545
Honestly even that isn't a good representation because GDP doesn't really say much about the standards of the typical citizen. Is there a table foe GDP per capita per medals?
>9 partecipations
>1010 medals
soviet union is clearly the goat
>>67507324
It's just a way for small countries to feel relevant.
We might as well measure World Cups per capita and declare Uruguay the GOAT football nation
>>67507575
Olympic athletes are definitely more athletic and technical compared to NFL players
>we don't care about global sports
>we do care
>>67507324
yes
>>67507627
kek
>ameriswims
>>67507611
i'm bored so there you go
>>67507612
The Soviet union as well as east Germany should be taken off all tables to be rather honest.
>>67507324
Because it's easier to find talent in a country with 300M of people than in a european village of 5K.
>>67508348
No, it's not. Talent is not something that appears at random. You'll find more talented sprinters in Jamaica (3m people) than in India and China combined (2.5b people).
>mfw american medals are primarily won by women aka joke athletes
>>67508348
>india
>>67507545
>Brasil right behind USA
nice
How 2 olympics:
1. find a niche sport with a lot of medals on offer that no other country is particularly good at
2. invest heavily into it
3. enjoy gold medals in that sport for the foreseeable future
>>67508307
No. All that accomplishment wasted because politics? No. I think it's better to move all medals from USSR to Russia and East Germany to Germany.
>>67508307
Medals should be split based on where that athlete was born. An athlete from Tallinn winning a medal shouldn't be credited to Russia.
>>67510462
Just like Norway.
>>67511051
what if is a team sport?
>Swimming and track and fields sports can earn you 10x times the amount of medals you could earn with almost any other sport
Yeah the Olympics are a meme
>>67511912
I'm sure Europeans can create some kind of retarded rule to account for that.
>>67511972
Why would we? The olympics are boring as fuck and literally just a passing time because all other sports are on break
>>67507421
It has a large correlation.
Look at it this way:
The USA could have a top tier football team, yet due to
>lack of interest in the sport
>terrible youth development
>early scouting/professionalisation is next to non existent
>funding/programs for those who have talent is mostly not available
>most even very talented players will quit or just play it for fun after middle school
resulting in:
>a small talent pool to pick from
you have a pretty shit tier team overall.
You have a possible talent pool of 300 million yet to pick your starting XI you look at such a limited pool that you can't come up with more than 4 players that are above mediocre (on the international level) and the rest might not even make the NT of Lichtenstein.
>>67512621
>you can't come up with more than 4 players
That's not the problem. No country can send more than X athletes for specific events.
>>67512702
Most countries can't find 1-2 that make the actual Olympic Limit or would be competitive in their sport.
As most sports are as meme tier as Football is in the US.
>>67513364
Well, if the US can send an unlimited number of athletes, then the US would have a higher medal count with a medal per capita close to many countries. In other words, the US is handicapped in the per capita argument because of this rule.
>>67512097
Euros this year lad. It's going to be ok
>>67512097
>>67513862
Just noticed your flag. O-Olympics are good to watch too sometimes
>>67512621
>claims population correlates with olympic medal count
>proceeds to lists some irrelevant shit that in no way shows a correlation between population and olympic results
>>67507112
I would trade away those medals to get rid of the nigers who won them.
Can't wait for this year's fecalympics
