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Australia: punching way above its weight class.
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It’s the Vegemite, I’m sure of it.
Yeah, there’s a few in here I’d like to see as per capita.
🇭🇺Hungary 🇧🇬 number o-- BAHAMAS??
Oh God IT’S THE BAHAMAS WITH A CHAIR!
The fauna in Australia culls the weak so the only people who grow old enough to compete are stronger than the worldwide average.
Having to hold on for dear life all the time gives upper arms strength.
I mean, Australia only has 11 more medals than East Germany. A country that hasn’t existed for 34 years. And which had only two thirds of the population of Australia. That’s punching about your weight class. And all it takes is systemic abuse of athletes.
Australia is doing almost as well as Hungary, which has about 1/3 Australia’s population
I dunno I feel like Australian culture is pretty positive towards fitness in general no?
Is the USSR count all medals of the Soviet States minus Russia? Or is Russia in this graph just the Russian Federation?
The U.S. almost has 4x the nearest country that still exists. Just absolutely insane.
Is there a correlation between a country’s Navy and Gold medals? I think the USN fleet is larger than like the next 12 largest navies, and that’s not counting the USCG.
I think the 2nd and 3rd largest are the RFN and HMNS, just like this list of #2 USSR, #3 UK.
I think there is a correlation, but basically no causation. One of the biggest factors is going to be total wealthy population (wealthy enough focus on athletics education at least). This would also be a decent cause for military spending, so a large navy wouldn’t be surprising even before the States’ military fanaticism.
Another factor is that the States hosted many Olympics before it was easy to travel globally, giving hosting countries massive overrepresentation in competitors.
The U.S. is also one of the oldest participants, having weathered both world wars relatively untouched and never having their people significantly affected by any other conflict (except 9/11 to a small extent).
