LastProphet
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Rio Olympics "Total Medals per Capita" table - the Grenada paradox
"Total Medals per Capita" is also deception, since now most Olympic medals are meaningless:
- from fake sports, not measurable, decided with notes given by judges
- to fake events, such as almost all swimming medals.
There are only 3 real events, mazimum speed, sustained speed and endurance, each time in whatever style each one wants, which at the top level is obvioulsy always freestyle.
The rest is repetition or negation of one of the basic principles of sports: citius.
Yet pardoxically by having Grenade as #, tthe table reflects the most striking evidence for the real athletic fitness of each state now:
in the 400 m race, the only Olympics event that ALONE reflects a limit for Human Physical Performance, there were TWO runners from Grenada and and only one US american.
Notes
We all know that the U.S. is doing extremely well in the Olympics. With 69 medals under its belt already – 26 of which are gold – the country has almost double the trophies of second-best team Great Britain.
But considering that the U.S. has a population of 318.9 million compared to G.B.’s 65 million, is it fair to rank all participating countries by medals achieved alone? The website Olympic Medals per Capita has revised the Rio rankings, ordering the countries in the Games by comparing their population size with the number of awards they have received.
According to the site, the Caribbean island of Grenada should be in number one position. With one medal (Kirani James won silver in the Men’s 400 meter sprint) and a population of merely 106,825, Grenada is races ahead of the rest of the world when considering medals per capita alone. New Zealand, Slovenia and Hungary are in second, third and fourth place respectively.
Correspondingly the U.S. is a lowly number 35 in the rankings, with a far less impressive one medal per 4,658,243 people. G.B. is faring slightly better, in 16th place, with one medal per 1,714,164 people. Third-place China are doing particularly badly in these rankings, coming in at 60th with their enormous population of 1.3 billion.
Here’s Who Leads the Rio Olympics Table in Medals Per Capita
Total Medals per Capita
Olympic Medals per Capita
BASICS
For the difference between Bolt and Van Niekerk or between 100/200 and 400 m:
End of Age: Usain Bolt maximum speed Human Physical Limits in Universe World Book
"Total Medals per Capita" is also deception, since now most Olympic medals are meaningless:
- from fake sports, not measurable, decided with notes given by judges
- to fake events, such as almost all swimming medals.
There are only 3 real events, mazimum speed, sustained speed and endurance, each time in whatever style each one wants, which at the top level is obvioulsy always freestyle.
The rest is repetition or negation of one of the basic principles of sports: citius.
Yet pardoxically by having Grenade as #, tthe table reflects the most striking evidence for the real athletic fitness of each state now:
in the 400 m race, the only Olympics event that ALONE reflects a limit for Human Physical Performance, there were TWO runners from Grenada and and only one US american.
Notes
We all know that the U.S. is doing extremely well in the Olympics. With 69 medals under its belt already – 26 of which are gold – the country has almost double the trophies of second-best team Great Britain.
But considering that the U.S. has a population of 318.9 million compared to G.B.’s 65 million, is it fair to rank all participating countries by medals achieved alone? The website Olympic Medals per Capita has revised the Rio rankings, ordering the countries in the Games by comparing their population size with the number of awards they have received.
According to the site, the Caribbean island of Grenada should be in number one position. With one medal (Kirani James won silver in the Men’s 400 meter sprint) and a population of merely 106,825, Grenada is races ahead of the rest of the world when considering medals per capita alone. New Zealand, Slovenia and Hungary are in second, third and fourth place respectively.
Correspondingly the U.S. is a lowly number 35 in the rankings, with a far less impressive one medal per 4,658,243 people. G.B. is faring slightly better, in 16th place, with one medal per 1,714,164 people. Third-place China are doing particularly badly in these rankings, coming in at 60th with their enormous population of 1.3 billion.
Here’s Who Leads the Rio Olympics Table in Medals Per Capita
Total Medals per Capita
Olympic Medals per Capita
BASICS
For the difference between Bolt and Van Niekerk or between 100/200 and 400 m:
End of Age: Usain Bolt maximum speed Human Physical Limits in Universe World Book