Some goon on Wikipedia proposed just that yesterday: "China 4X population of US, I can't do the mental math to adjust medal count per capita!!"
2020/2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics
- Thread starter Strangelove
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Medal count per capita only makes sense if numbers of athletes are also proportional to population.
coolieno99
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Because of the low IQ of the average Indians, if they did not put the position number in front of the country names, most of them will think that India is in first place in the medal counts.
US has like the third highest population in the world after China and India. They'll end with one of the lowest medal counts per capita.
China is doing great in last few days. Overall, I think it is performing good. Russia is doing okay, too. Japan is doing really well. USA is performing slight worse than I expected. I was expecting more gold from USA in swimming/gymnastics.
Overall Olympics are fun so far, I am enjoying it.
Overall Olympics are fun so far, I am enjoying it.
Actually, China is performing exactly as expected medals (+/-0), US is worse than expected medals (-15), Japan is much worse than expected (-17), while "Russian Moscow" is performing WAYY above expectation (+20).
Japan was predicted to be #3, looks like they might end up behind "Russian Moscow" and possibly UK.
India wins the Gold Medal for "Consistency Zero medals" discipline which make sense since Indian invented the concept of zero.
Source: Nate Silver's 538 Olympic projections.
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Following Nate Silver since US election. He is like 50/50 on his predictions.
IT'S RIGGED JUST LOOK AT BADMINTON, THE PEOPLE WHO SIT THERE JUST TO LOOK WHETHER THE SHUTTLE COCK FALL INSIDE OR OUTSIDE THE LINE , HAVE SO MANY SUCCESFULL CHALLENGE AND TALKING ABOUT THE EASIEST AND UNCOMPLICATED JOB IN THE WORLD THESE EPOPLE ARE SELECTED FOR THE JOB ?? CANT FIND ANOTEHR REASON OTEHR THAN IT'S RIGGED.
USA has fallen so much compare to 80s where they dominated basically all the athletics they use gold medal count as scoring , now as their gold medal no longer dominate they have no choice but to come up with new scoring system and also introduced the bulls Gen X sports to make them top of medal chart. USA is desperate.