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Gotta love some stats...

 

And the winner is ...

 

So now we get to the real numbers. Our statistician Brian Dawes has formulated the only true and just statistical representation of Olympic medal performance.

 

Dawes calls it the MAP methodology. “Based on a crafty combination of medals won, athletes in your team, and your country's population, I am please to advise that the real winner of the London Olympics is Australia!"

 

Using the formula, medals won multiplied by athletes in your team divided by home count population (MAP), here are the top four:

 

Australia 632

Great Britain 565

Hungary 268

Russia 250

 

Team USA scored a measly 175, and China only 23.

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that statistical model leaves out a number of critical variables.

 

For starters - GDP per capita, yearly budget allocation for sporting institutes, climate, topography (we don't expect Nepal to have too many marathon champions, do we?)

 

Based on that stat Australia would still be pretty high up the ladder but depending on the weighting you give to govt resources allocated to sports somewhere like Jamaica would probably get it.

 

It would certainly drop the US and China even further down the scale as well.

 

 

 

 

Serious business is serious.

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