Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Other ways to measure Olympic success

The BBC noted that China liked to count how many gold medals were won (which put it first) and the Americans liked to count total medals won (which put them first) but there are other ways to look at medal success, and by several of them Jamaica lands right near the top.:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7576446.stm

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