Saturday, August 11, 2012

Core Western Europe Won The Olympic Games 2012 In London


If you add up the gold medals of the four countries making up the core of Western Europe, i.e. France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy, then you come up with 57 gold medals as compared to 44 for the USA (As of Saturday evening 8/11/12). Adding up the population of core Western Europe gives you 269 million or fewer than that of US or of China.

Table: Medal Count (As of Sat. evening 8/11/12)
Rank
Country
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
Population
1
Core Western Europe (DE, FR, IT, UK)
57
52
53
162
269
2
USA
44
29
29
102
312
3
China
38
27
22
87
1,347
Notes: Population in millions.

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