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Olympic Winners, 2012

Since there is some debate about the best way to measure who won the Olympics (correct answer: “We all did”), I thought I would prepare the results using several different methods so that various countries could claim to be the winners.

Usually the debate centers around do only golds count or do all medals count. The seemingly official method is to count by golds, but there are some other ways.

Since there are too much data to put into one post, I’ll summarize the results in this post and also point to another page that contains the unsummarized data.

Summary: Grenada won the 2012 Olympic games

Country Medals / Trillion $ Rank
Grenada 681.20 1
Jamaica 478.66 2
Czech Republic 416.15 3

Country People / Gold Medals Rank
Grenada 109,011 1
Bahamas 316,182 2
New Zealand 721,324 3

Country Sq. Mile / Point Rank
Grenada 27 1
Jamaica 118 2
Singapore 135 3

The only category which Grenada did not win was normalization by athlete count. In other words, Grenada was very efficient as a country but not so efficient as an Olympic delegation.

For the complete data, please view the charts on the 2012 Olympics Results page.

Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.

Luke 14:32