{"id":678,"date":"2019-02-21T12:01:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T12:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.internetintelligence.se\/blogg\/?p=678"},"modified":"2019-02-21T18:28:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T18:28:35","slug":"the-greatest-sports-nation-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.internetintelligence.se\/blogg\/the-greatest-sports-nation-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The greatest sports nation of all time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which is the greatest sports nation of all time?<\/p>\n

To answer the question, let\u2019s start out with some assumptions:<\/p>\n

– Number of olympic medals is a relevant measure of success in sports.<\/p>\n

– A gold medal is twice as valuable as a silver medal and a silver is twice as valuable as a bronze medal (weight: 4, 2, 1).<\/p>\n

– The sheer number of Chinese, Americans et al. can’t automatically make them the greatest sports nations, so we need to calculate per capita.<\/p>\n

– A few superstars in a tiny nation = skewed results: The Wentzel-family has brought 7 medals to Liechtenstein (population 38 000). But one athletic family can’t make a great sports nation, so we need a lower cut-off; let’s say a population of 1 million.<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s calculate: Weighted number of medals per Olympic Game (in which the country participated) divided by population in millions. And then, a bit crude, we exclude all countries with a population less than 1,000,000.<\/p>\n

And the greatest sports nation of all time turns out to be: Norway!<\/p>\n

Then of course you ask yourself; shouldn\u2019t variety matter? Can you just ski your way to the top like that? To be debated and continued… (Countries that are no longer with us are excluded, which is a practical way to remove GDR from the equation).<\/p>\n

\"Norway<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Greatest<\/a><\/p>\n

Click to enlarge pictures or see the graph and table on Tableau Public:<\/p>\n

Mobile version<\/a><\/p>\n

Desktop version<\/a><\/p>\n

Data from (Swedish) wikipedia (summer of 2018): https:\/\/sv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lista_%C3%B6ver_olympiska_spelens_medaljf%C3%B6rdelning https:\/\/sv.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lista_%C3%B6ver_l%C3%A4nder_efter_folkm%C3%A4ngd<\/span><\/p>\n

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