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2012 Summer Olympics medal table
Rank NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA)‡ 46 28 29
2 China (CHN)‡ 38 29 21 88
3 Great Britain (GBR)* 29 17 19 65
4 Russia (RUS)‡ 20 18 31 69
5 South Korea (KOR)‡ 13 9 8 30
2016 Summer Olympics Medal Table
Rank NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States (USA) 46 37 38 121
2 Great Britain (GBR) 27 23 17 67
3 China (CHN) 26 18 26 70
4 Russia (RUS) 19 17 19 55
5 Germany (GER) 17 10 15 42
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Speaking for Olympics, here is per capita medals ratio
http://www.medalspercapita.com/
Croatia 6th in the world, 2nd in Europe
Slovenia 7th, 3rd in Europe
Hungary 10th, 4th in Europe
Great Britain 19th, 8th in Europe
Gold medals per capita:
Croatia 3rd in world, 1st in Europe
Hungary 6th, 2nd in Europe
Slovenia 10th, 4th in Europe
Great Britain 13th, 6th in Europe
Olympics is individual sports centered. And I gave example of three smaller countries in my neighbourhood (including my own) that are more sucessful than UK. And UK is ranked very high, but not as the best in Europe.
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In rugby union, England have not always been the best side in Europe. During the 70's Wales were, during the 80's France were, and at other times England could be pretty mediocre too. The difference is, however, that even when relatively poor, due to their unrivalled strength-in-depth England could still maintain a certain level of standards and dignity - not losing to Italy or the Pacific Islands etc., whereas when the other Five (now Six) Nations are bad, they are really really bad. Here is a list of the Five and Six Nations champions for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Na...2.80.931999.29
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Olympic Games suck. Most of its sports are not practiced nor by the 0,000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 000000000000000000000001% of the population of the world.
Disciplines such as rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming, archery, canoe/kayak, BMX freestyle, diving, trampoline, badminton, fencing, pentathlon, etc etc etc etc, are a joke and if you take pride of having 7 millions of medals in these fields you are a joke too.
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