Somehow I think another metric like GDP would be more relevant than population size…
Comparing medal counts across countries is silly as different sports are popular in different countries. Badminton is popular in southeast Asia. But there are only 2 medals available to badminton players: singles and doubles. Swimming has medals available in multiple singles events and in multiple team events.
Imagine how many medals Indonesia would have won if the Olympics awarded medals for all these events:
Right handed badminton singles
Left handed badminton singles
Right handed badminton doubles
Left handed badminton doubles
One legged badminton singles
One legged badminton doubles
Blindfolded badminton with audible shuttlecock
etc.
This is partly because of his dominance, but mostly because swimming has a TON of medals available and the skillset is largely the same.
I wonder what the comparison would be if instead of counting a single medal for winning in say soccer, we counted each member of the team as an individual medal.
Like Michael Phelps would still be the single athlete with the most medals, but I imagine the comparison to whole countries would immediately fall apart.
It’s always good to laugh at poverty. Good job guys.
What a random thing.
What’s next? Most good medals per capita of countries who have 85% bidets
For reference those are the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th 14th 15th, and 16th most populous on Earth. Overall Phelps is currently tied with Ethiopia (13th most populous) for 41st on the all time gold medal list, including 7 teams that no longer exist.
Phelps achievement is incredible, but swimming is bullshit. Steve Redgrave won five golds in five consecutive Olympics. Imagine how many he could have if he was allowed to enter eight events each time.
Why isn’t the Bangladesh flag centered?
I’d be genuinely interested to see the inverse of this.
Least populated countries with more medals than Phelps.
Is there any relation between Population and gold medal?! None at all.
Wow, a list. GREAT visualisation.
Now let’s reverse and see how many players have more FIFA World Cup’s than USA.
And he takes huge bong rips!
This isn’t a data visualization. It’s a list. There’s no element of the data which has been visualized. Perhaps you want r/tablesarebeautiful or something?
Ok time to leave this sub, enough of the olympics nonsense
Visual seems weird to me. Why choose the countries with largest population? Most of them are extremely poor nations and I would guess lack of resources and proper nutrition would limit “world class” potential.
Olympics are a rich country sports event. For many countries, Olympics don’t mean crap
Well… so? I won every game of S.K.A.T.E. as a kid because I could ollie very high. I definitely wasn’t the best freestyle skater, though.
Apart from Phelps, this shows the Olympics are the playground of the rich countries.
TIL Olympics medals are correlated with GPD and thus by the virtue of it, all these posts are just reposting international classism. Huh
India has 1 gold medal I think by Ahbinav Bindra. This post is a r/titlegore
I mean dude is just a beast. His training consists of minimum 50 miles swimming a week, 12000 kcal a day + he smokes weed off season.
It’s shocking the Nigerians only have 3. Have you ever seen a Nigerian?
Jeez I’d be embarrassed af if I was from one of these countries during the Olympics
![Michael Phelps (USA) is the athlete with the most gold medals in the history of the Olympics. [OC]](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1jfkyv936pfd1-1920x1024.png)
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Somehow I think another metric like GDP would be more relevant than population size…
Comparing medal counts across countries is silly as different sports are popular in different countries. Badminton is popular in southeast Asia. But there are only 2 medals available to badminton players: singles and doubles. Swimming has medals available in multiple singles events and in multiple team events.
Imagine how many medals Indonesia would have won if the Olympics awarded medals for all these events:
Right handed badminton singles
Left handed badminton singles
Right handed badminton doubles
Left handed badminton doubles
One legged badminton singles
One legged badminton doubles
Blindfolded badminton with audible shuttlecock
etc.
This is partly because of his dominance, but mostly because swimming has a TON of medals available and the skillset is largely the same.
I wonder what the comparison would be if instead of counting a single medal for winning in say soccer, we counted each member of the team as an individual medal.
Like Michael Phelps would still be the single athlete with the most medals, but I imagine the comparison to whole countries would immediately fall apart.
It’s always good to laugh at poverty. Good job guys.
What a random thing.
What’s next? Most good medals per capita of countries who have 85% bidets
For reference those are the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th 14th 15th, and 16th most populous on Earth. Overall Phelps is currently tied with Ethiopia (13th most populous) for 41st on the all time gold medal list, including 7 teams that no longer exist.
Phelps achievement is incredible, but swimming is bullshit. Steve Redgrave won five golds in five consecutive Olympics. Imagine how many he could have if he was allowed to enter eight events each time.
Why isn’t the Bangladesh flag centered?
I’d be genuinely interested to see the inverse of this.
Least populated countries with more medals than Phelps.
Is there any relation between Population and gold medal?! None at all.
Wow, a list. GREAT visualisation.
Now let’s reverse and see how many players have more FIFA World Cup’s than USA.
And he takes huge bong rips!
This isn’t a data visualization. It’s a list. There’s no element of the data which has been visualized. Perhaps you want r/tablesarebeautiful or something?
Ok time to leave this sub, enough of the olympics nonsense
Visual seems weird to me. Why choose the countries with largest population? Most of them are extremely poor nations and I would guess lack of resources and proper nutrition would limit “world class” potential.
Olympics are a rich country sports event. For many countries, Olympics don’t mean crap
Well… so? I won every game of S.K.A.T.E. as a kid because I could ollie very high. I definitely wasn’t the best freestyle skater, though.
Apart from Phelps, this shows the Olympics are the playground of the rich countries.
TIL Olympics medals are correlated with GPD and thus by the virtue of it, all these posts are just reposting international classism. Huh
India has 1 gold medal I think by Ahbinav Bindra. This post is a r/titlegore
I mean dude is just a beast.
His training consists of minimum 50 miles swimming a week, 12000 kcal a day + he smokes weed off season.
It’s shocking the Nigerians only have 3. Have you ever seen a Nigerian?
Jeez I’d be embarrassed af if I was from one of these countries during the Olympics