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Olympic Spin: Jamaica on top, China in 45th

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Even if, like me, you have studiously avoided watching any of the Olympic coverage, you will probably have seen the odd medals table on a news program or something. They all show the glorious People's Republic beating the evil Empire and its Poodle into second and third place respectively. But hang on, the host nation is the largest nation on earth by population and, whether or not there has been any cheating, such as using babies in the gymnastics or whatever, the simple fact is that their human resources are vast. So, as a completely meaningless bit of fun, I have compared the medals table (at least those nations who have won golds) with their respective populations.

Looking at it this way, we find Jamaica in first place with tiny Bahrain in second. Georgia beats Russia by a mile. Team GB are down in 15th place, but that is well ahead of Russia (25), the United States (29) and the Glorious People's Fatherland is way down at 45th out of 53 countries who won any gold medals at all.

Eat your pants, China! If they had won just one gold, Taiwan would have beaten you by a country mile!

Here's the full list:

Country Rank (Golds) Rank (all medals)
Jamaica 1 1
Bahrain 2 14
Estonia 3 10
New Zealand 4 4
Georgia 5 13
Australia 6 6
Slovakia 7 16
Slovenia 8 3
Latvia 9 18
Netherlands 10 17
Belarus 11 7
Mongolia 12 23
Denmark 13 15
Panama 14 44
Great Britain 15 24
Czech Republic 16 29
Switzerland 17 26
Korea 18 28
Norway 19 12
Finland 20 30
Romania 21 40
Cuba 22 8
Germany 23 36
Bulgaria 24 27
Russian Fed. 25 38
Azerbaijan 26 20
Italy 27 37
Ukraine 28 34
United States 29 42
Hungary 30 21
Tunisia 31 63
Portugal 32 56
Canada 33 33
Spain 34 48
DPR Korea 35 49
Poland 36 53
France 37 32
Zimbabwe 38 43
Japan 39 55
Kazakhstan 40 25
Cameroon 41 71
Kenya 42 52
Ethiopia 43 68
Uzbekistan 44 50
China 45 66
Argentina 46 62
Thailand 47 77
Iran 48 78
Turkey 49 60
Brazil 50 67
Mexico 51 81
Indonesia 52 79
India 53 85

Now, after all the spin, I wonder how many of the Chinese gold medalists are going to have bits amputated by the Glorious Central Committee of the People's Games so that they might also win in the Paralympics?

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