Who has the best Olympic medal count per capita? (Vancouver trivia break)

by Brian Mann on February 19th, 2010

But we’ve only won one Olympic medal for every 17.8 million people in America.

Norway, meanwhile, has won a medal for every .5 million people.

Yup, by this calculus they’re doing 35 times better than we are…

Put another way, if we were matching the Norwegians’ per capita medal output, we’d have won 595 medals so far.

Which would be AMAZING, given that only around 100 medals have been handed out so far.

On our global news program The World last night, someone pointed out grudgingly that the Norwegians only have fish and winter sports.

But I think the person who said that was from Sweden…

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