Applying Tobias’ methodology and the standings published today in a German newspaper, whose web site really could be better organized, we get the following line for the medal count:
USSR - Gold 28 - Silver 35 - Bronze 41
Not quite the dominance of the bad old days, but enough for second behind the equally imaginary EU team, and a touch ahead of their noted rivals from the western shores of the Atlantic.
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August 27th, 2004 at 4:11 pm
The Australian Bureau of Stats also have their own version of all this - medals per capita:
http://abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/57a31759b55dc970ca2568a1002477b6/be9f47591541e29eca256ef40004f25a
And the winner is…… Bahamas.
August 30th, 2004 at 5:30 pm
Obviously the US only entered three comnpetitiors per event against up to 75 from the EU. So we still have some catching up to do!
August 30th, 2004 at 10:49 pm
Ah, now, since you let an EU team stand, shouldn’t the western Atlantic shores be allowed to form, say, a NAFTA team? Let’s count that:
NAFTA - 38 Gold - 86 Silver - 33 Bronze
Which would put it ahead of the USSR team albeit not in reach of the EU. Most of all, it would heal some Canada’s hurt pride. And the Mexicans shoud be happy too.