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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
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Subject: Re: The real Olympic winner - the envelope please...
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Date: Tue, 28-Aug-84 15:32:06 EDT
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> 1) The U.S. is a big country
> 2) Powerful Eastern block countries were absent.
 
> So how can we come up with some objective way of evaluating the
> performance of the participating countries?  To balance out
> populations we can consider the Per Capita medal count.  On that
> basis the overall winner was Iceland, with Canada 4th (I think)
> and the U.S. a respectable 13th (Better luck next time!).
 
I saw a letter to the editor in the local newspaper from a man who had
divided the (10-5-4-3-2-1) point totals by the population (in millions
to get the 'real' score.

The 'winner' was New Zealand, with ~ 35.
Second was Finland, with ~ 24.

Canada was, I think, fourth, with ~ 14.
U.S. was way down the list, with ~ 7.5.

Tom Haapanen
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