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| Olympic Medals Per Capita Posted by busbeepbeep A lot of my cousins in Trinidad posted this on Facebook, and you can see why these small countries celebrate the hell out of each medal.  on 8/14 at 10:32 amLINK Rank Country Medals Population Population per medal 1..... Grenada 1..... 110,821 .....110,821 2..... Jamaica 12..... 2,705,827 .....225,485 3..... Trinidad and Tobago 4..... 1,317,714 .....329,428 4..... New Zealand 13..... 4,432,620 .....340,970 5..... Bahamas 1..... 353,658 .....353,658 . 49..... United States 104..... 313,382,000 .....3,013,288 . 74..... China 88..... 1,347,350,000 .....15,310,795 . 85..... India 6..... 1,241,491,960 .....206,915,326 This post was edited on 8/14 at 10:33 am Reply • Back to Top |
Posted by Zamoro10 on 8/14 at 10:36 am to busbeepbeep India needs to save face and frankly stop showing up at the Olympics. They can claim religious reasons or say everyone is too busy at American Universities becoming engineers and winning spelling bees or some shite. But damn, that is embarrassing India. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: What about the athletes that want to go and compete? Reply • Back to Top |
| So Trinidad is better then us? Reply • Back to Top |
Bangladesh... 152 million people and zero medals. Ever.  Reply • Back to Top |
quote:better than everyone at throwing a javelin, and 3rd best at sprinting behind Jamaica and USA. Reply • Back to Top |
| Grenada wins with a total of 1 medal Reply • Back to Top |
| I dislike the percapita argument. Countries can send athletes in any event where they meet the standard. What if it was based on times/scores alone, and no limit on how many each country could have in an event. The US and China would have 1000 athletes apiece there. What is the medal count per athletes entered? Reply • Back to Top |
| I agree. The pool, track, gymnastics, basketball etc would be loaded with our athletes. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Grenada is about the size of Lafayette. That's pretty impressive. Reply • Back to Top |
| Beat China. All that matters Reply • Back to Top |
quote: An athlete has won 6 (or more) medals in a single Olympics 33 times. Not to pile on, but India has 26 Olympic medals, while Michael Phelps has 22. Reply • Back to Top |
Where the frick is Souljah in this thread  Reply • Back to Top |
| He's too fricked up from drinking Red Stripe to notice Reply • Back to Top |
quote: Ok. its their first ever though. West Allis Wisconsin residents wins two or three ice skating medals every winter Olympics. Some of the East SF bay suburbs have two or three swimmers medal every summer Olympics. Eugene Oregon has one or two runners medal every Olympics. Did you see Eugene's Galen Rupp win his Silver in the 10,000? only the 2nd American to ever medal in the 10,000. great finishing kick. When I lived in Marin, there would always be a feature on SF Bay area Olympians in the local paper. There are usually a dozen at least. many medal. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: I don't think that is correct. I think the last time, prior to Eaton this year, anyone training out of Eugene medalled was 1984 or thereabouts. You do realize that Rupp and Farah neither live nor train in Eugene, right? Reply • Back to Top |
| I thought Britain would have been higher up on the list. I'm sure they are up there for per capita gold medals but I'm not doing the math. Reply • Back to Top |
quote: the link does that for you Gold Medals Per Capita GB is #11 This post was edited on 8/18 at 10:32 pm Reply • Back to Top • Refresh |
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