John Pickering • Aug 14, 2012 •
The Games are over, let the analysis begin. We’ve had some fun with ranking countries’ performance at the London Olympics according to medals per million (medals per capita) or medals per 100 billion of Gross Domestic Product (see my tables below). As I predicted a few posts back, the medals per capita will be one … Continue reading » … Read More
John Pickering • Aug 08, 2012 •
As expected, a country with a small population has grabbed the top medal position when Grenada (population, 104,000) grabbed a gold. WIth a medals per million score of 9.6 they are only likely to be beaten by a country with even smaller population. Meanwhile, Jamaica has moved into 5th position with 5 medals, all in … Continue reading » … Read More
John Pickering • Aug 06, 2012 •
The weekend success of a New Zealand rowing pair put them in gold medal position on the medals per capita table. They have now sneaked ahead of Slovenia. Denmark are in bronze medal position with Australia solid in fourth. The big mover over the weekend was Great britain moving from 17th at the end … Continue reading » … Read More
John Pickering • Aug 06, 2012 •
Do richer countries perform better than poorer? Is sporting prowess more important to a country’s leaders than feeding their population? Or does this table reflect real sporting prowess. You be the judge. North Korea (DPR Korea) leads the medals per US$100 Billion of Gross Domestic Product (2010 figures from the UN statistics), Moldova and Mongolia … Continue reading » … Read More
John Pickering • Aug 04, 2012 •
On the seventh day they did rest – I think not. Aotearoa a land of couch potatoes – absolutely; sitting down wins medals! Super cyclists and outrageous rowers took New Zealand’s medal tally to six on the seventh day of the London Olympics. All medals have been won sitting down (and two-thirds of them going … Continue reading » … Read More
John Pickering • Aug 03, 2012 •
Over at Statistics New Zealand the folks have done a great job in producing an alternative medals table for the London Olympics. They are showing the number of medals won per million population. They have kindly shared some of the data with me (thanks people) so that I can produce a few graphs and tables … Continue reading » … Read More