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Map of the world showing the achievements of each country during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. Gold for countries achieving at least one gold medal. Silver for countries achieving at least one silver medal.
24 Αυγ 2008 · Aside from chronicling the winning countries in this post, I have chosen to analyse the results according to population. There are many striking facts to these results — the best of which I will attempt to highlight.
Olympics. In fact, almost half of the approximately 200 countries on Earth in 2008 were represented. The population of the 87 countries participating in the 2008 Olympics ranged from just under 300,000 for Iceland to 1.3 billion people for China. The average population was 61.5 million. The Bahamas won more medals relative to the size of its ...
Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
An unprecedented 87 countries won at least one medal during the 2008 Games. Host nation China won the most gold medals (48), and became the seventh different team to top the Summer Olympics medal standings, winning a total of 100 medals overall.
To examine whether sport really plays an enabling role, the medals ranking of countries on the basis of medals obtained (per million population) in Summer Olympics during the five Olympics...
To some people this does not seem fair, and a more reasonable way of ranking the performance of countries at the Olympics is to compare the results to the population size of the country. Below we use the 2008 medal table as an example to compare the rankings per population.
