Europe. Gold medals

[devonwoody]

108 gold medals were won by Europeans at the Rio Olmpics 2016.

Therefore in my opinion Europe are the most successful competitors.

Not the U.S.A

 

[Walney Col]

Only you class youself as a european. rather than as a member of the human race, who won every medal on offer.

 

[bugbear]

Only you class youself as a european. rather than as a member of the human race, who won every medal on offer.

Cool! Who were they competing against?

BugBear

 

[Mr_P]

Team America's results are quite poor if you go by population.

324 million for USA divisded by 119 medals in total = 2.7 million
64 million for UK / 66 medals = 0.96 million

or Golds 44 vs 27
USA = 7.3 million UK = 2.3 million

So we are about 3 times better than them, haha.

Similar article in the Independant but a few days old.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olym ... 96891.html

 

[clk230]

108 gold medals were won by Europeans at the Rio Olmpics 2016.

Therefore in my opinion Europe are the most successful competitors.

Not the U.S.A

But if you use that analogy the European competitors would far out way the USA so of course they would win more :lol:

 

[clk230]

Team America's results are quite poor if you go by population.

324 million for USA divisded by 119 medals in total = 2.7 million
64 million for UK / 66 medals = 0.96 million

or Golds 44 vs 27
USA = 7.3 million UK = 2.3 million

So we are about 3 times better than them, haha.

Similar article in the Independant but a few days old.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olym ... 96891.html

One word ' Funding '

 

[stuartpaul]

Personally I loved the Olympics and thought our performance rather spectacular.

I was half listening to something this morning that said each gold medal cost in the region of £4 million.

 

[DennisCA]

Oh is it that time of year again *yawn*

 

[Water-Mark]

Oh is it that time of year again *yawn*

If you didn't like it you wouldn't join a conversation about it.

I saw that figure about the 4 million but i think it's a bit misleading.

 

[RogerP]

Here are the facts ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...ost-uk-tax-olympics-medal-table-a7203321.html