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Post by Panda on May 14, 2020 15:18:53 GMT 1
I've added another column to the above list. It features each team's ranking in terms of number of athletes competing at the Games. GB is an interesting one on that front: did we punch above our weight? Or does it back up what I said about the ruthlessness of the funding and excluding anyone who isn't considered to have a chance of winning a medal.
The host nation gets a lot of automatic places so Brazil's number is a bit misleading. Some teams might feature in several team sports where a large group of athletes are sent to try and win one medal.
I'll let you draw your own conclusions on the likes of North Korea and Azerbaijan, who sent comparatively small teams but still scored well on the events in which they took part.
One last thing to do for Rio 2016 is the table of tables, where the ranking for each sport is awarded points 8-1 and then goes toward a table that adds them all together, treating each sport equally. I genuinely don't know who's going to come out on top of that one.
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Post by Panda on May 14, 2020 17:30:46 GMT 1
So finally for 2016, this is the "equalised" points table. Points are awarded 8-1 for the rankings in each sport and the points totals added for the 31 sports. If points are level for a particular sport, the medal table for that sport is used as a tie-breaker. (position in the "every event" points table in brackets) 1(1) United States 116 2(2) Great Britain 103 3(3) China 78 4(4) Russia 76 5(6) France 73 6(5) Germany 69 7(7) Australia 53 8(14) South Korea 46 9(9) Italy 43 10(8) Japan 42 11(11) Brazil 34 12(12) Netherlands 30 12(12) Spain 30 14(15) New Zealand 28 15(10) Canada 22 16(17) Hungary 18 17(22) Azerbaijan 15 17(23) Sweden 15 19(31) Mexico 14 19(38) Serbia 14 19(16) Ukraine 14 22(19) Kazakhstan 13 23(20) Denmark 12 24(32) Croatia 9 24(20) Cuba 9 24(27) Czech Republic 9 24(18) Poland 9 28(28) South Africa 8 28(25) Uzbekistan 8 30(41) Argentina 7 30(30) Belgium 7 30(82) Fiji 7 30(52) Malaysia 7 30(37) North Korea 7 35(26) Colombia 6 35(36) Iran 6 35(34) Kenya 6 35(29) Switzerland 6 35(35) Turkey 6 40(51) Chinese Taipei 5 40(33) Jamaica 5 40(68) Nigeria 5 40(54) Norway 5 40(42) Thailand 5 45(45) Egypt 4 45(47) Portugal 4 45(71) Singapore 4 45(44) Slovakia 4 49(24) Belarus 3 49(39) Georgia 3 49(99) Honduras 3 49(60) Indonesia 3 49(43) Romania 3 54(82) Chile 2 54(76) Hong Kong 2 54(49) India 2 57(63) Ivory Coast 1 57(99) Montenegro 1 Great Britain actually led the table after 27 sports but with nothing to come in the last 4, they were overhauled by the US. France had an even worse finish, with no points in the last 6 sports, dropping them from 3rd to 5th. 4 teams that didn't win a medal appear on this list: Honduras, Chile, Hong Kong and Montenegro. Top 5 from the "every event" points list that don't appear on this one: 1. Greece 2. Ethiopia 3. Slovenia 4. Venezuela 5. Ireland
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Post by paulgilb on May 14, 2020 22:39:52 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on May 15, 2020 2:28:50 GMT 1
Thank you Shireblogger and paulgilb. I've decided I will be doing the 2018 Winter Olympics next because it actually won't take very long to do so I figured I might as well. It had 102 events across 15 (by my own definition) sports, so I should be able to get it done in a couple of days.
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Post by Tom on May 22, 2020 18:22:27 GMT 1
I'd like to echo others and say that was an interesting read.
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