The USA are speaking a giant sport and ESPN has been claiming they lead the medal desk even after they haven’t however they’re a good distance behind Australia and a few tiny Caribbean nations within the Per Capita Olympic Medal Desk.
After the Individuals pipped Australia on the ultimate evening of the swimming competitors to win their head-to-head battle 8-7, they’ve been beating their chest about reclaiming supremacy within the pool.
We’re simply over the midway level heading into the ultimate week of the Video games and USA’s whole of 20 golds nonetheless put them behind China on the medal tally by one.
When you consider US shops like ESPN who’ve intentionally been rating nations based mostly on their general medals, as an alternative of the normal means of rating them by the variety of golds, then silver and bronze medals, the Individuals have been by no means something however No.1.
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USA, USA, and all that malarkey.
However in the event you base the medal tally on a per capita foundation utilizing every nation’s inhabitants, then the US are ranked eighth among the many high 10 nations from the Paris Video games.
They’ve received a medal for each 4.7 million Individuals with solely Japan (1 per 4.7 million) and China (1 per 27 million) worse off.
Little previous Australia, not surprisingly with our inhabitants barely above 26 million, are considered one of solely six nations who’ve received gold which have extra medals than hundreds of thousands of individuals.
The Per Capita Olympics – How the highest 10 actually form up
| Golds | Medals | Medals Per Capita | |
| China | 21 | 53 | 1 per 26.9 million |
| USA | 20 | 78 | 1 per 4.36 million |
| Australia | 13 | 32 | 1 per 826,222 |
| France | 12 | 46 | 1 per 1.41 million |
| Nice Britain | 12 | 42 | 1 per 1.56 million |
| South Korea | 11 | 26 | 1 per 1.79 million |
| Japan | 9 | 26 | 1 per 4.74 million |
| Italy | 7 | 25 | 1 per 2.64 million |
| Netherlands | 6 | 17 | 1 per 1.04 million |
Main the best way are Caribbean islands Dominica and Saint Lucia with a gold medal every regardless of populations of 73,000 and 180,000 respectively.
Dominica celebrated its first ever medal when Thea LaFond received the ladies’s triple soar on the identical day that Julien Alfred did likewise for Saint Lucia with victory within the ladies’s 100m dash last.
Matt Ebden and John Friends rejoice their gold medal win within the Paris Olympics males’s doubles last. (Picture by Matthew Stockman/Getty Photos)
As they normally do, New Zealand are punching above their weight on the world stage to win 9 medals, together with two gold within the ladies’s rowing and rugby sevens, regardless of a inhabitants a little bit north of 5 million.
Eire, with three golds, and Georgia for his or her victory within the judo, are additionally on the checklist of over-achievers.
The Per Capita Olympics – The true winners
| Golds | Medals | Medals Per Capita | |
| Dominica | 1 | 1 | 1 per 73,000 |
| Saint Lucia | 1 | 1 | 1 per 180,000 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 9 | 1 per 580,900 |
| Cabo Verde | 0 | 1 | 1 per 599,000 |
| Australia | 12 | 31 | 1 per 826,222 |
| Eire | 3 | 6 | 1 per 842,822 |
| Georgia | 1 | 4 | 1 per 932,000 |
On the different finish of the size, India have collected a paltry three bronze medals.
That from a rustic with a inhabitants of 1.4 billion.
No surprise they need cricket within the Olympics.
