There’s been a lot of talk about which is the most accurate way to count Olympic medals. The IOC has always used gold medals to determine rankings, with everything else being secondary. Meanwhile there’s an alternate school of thought that all medals are worthy of being counted, so it’s about the total a country earns that’s important.
We count medals to determine the greatest sporting country in the world. What if instead of weighting golds, or evaluating total medals, we determined standings based on how many medals a country wins per-capita? This would mean that we could determine how many medals a nation wins per number of citizens, and
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