{"id":13966,"date":"2004-08-25T12:07:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/alternative-olympic-medal-counts\/"},"modified":"2004-08-25T12:07:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T12:07:00","slug":"alternative-olympic-medal-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/alternative-olympic-medal-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Olympic Medal Counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abs.gov.au\/Ausstats\/abs@.nsf\/57a31759b55dc970ca2568a1002477b6\/be9f47591541e29eca256ef40004f25a!OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Athens 2004 Olympics logo\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/2004olympicslogo_athens.gif\" \/><\/a>The Australian Bureau of Statistics has &ldquo;released an <a href=\"http:\/\/abs.gov.au\/Ausstats\/abs@.nsf\/57a31759b55dc970ca2568a1002477b6\/be9f47591541e29eca256ef40004f25a!OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">alternative view of the traditional Olympic medal tally<\/a> to take into account the populations of competing nations.&rdquo;  The resulting list ranks the medal count at Athens by Population Per Medal, rather than a <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/olympics\/2004\/medaltracker\/medalTrackerByTotal.html\" target=\"_blank\">raw numerical count<\/a>, and is updated daily; right now Bahamas is in the lead.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/users.skynet.be\/hermandw\/olymp\/reloly.html\" target=\"_blank\">Per Capita Olympic Table<\/a> similarly ranks nations&rsquo; olympic medals since 1948; Liechtenstein leads this list.  It&rsquo;s pretty cool to see smaller countries recognized in this way&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/35177\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109343615160053801?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Bureau of Statistics has &ldquo;released an alternative view of the traditional Olympic medal tally to take into account the populations of competing nations.&rdquo; The resulting list ranks the medal count at Athens by Population Per Medal, rather than a raw numerical count, and is updated daily; right now Bahamas is in the lead. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/08\/25\/alternative-olympic-medal-counts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alternative Olympic Medal Counts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}