Well, the Tokyo Olympics will end today (already Sunday Tokyo time ). The Final Ceremonies air at 7AM EDT ( 1AM Hawaii time tonight ) tomorrow. Left are the men's marathon in Sapporo and Japan vs USA in women's basketball. Sure we won in men's basketball, and women's golf and water polo, but we lost to Japan in both the softball and baseball championship games. Japan was strong, winning thirteen gold medals in judo and wrestling, the women especially, for they dominated in four of the six wrestling events. So who won the most medals? If it's only gold, then China. Total? USA. On the other hand, using medals per million people, the leaders are: #1 San Marino: 88.4 #2 Bermuda: 16 #3 Grenada: 8.9 What about medals/million for the larger countries? New Zealand: 3.9 Australia: 1.7 Great Britain: 0.9 USA: 0.3 China: 0.06 Wasn't that surprising? What was th...
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