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[quote=APAULT,312027]Actually Australia and S Korea are at the top of the medal table.  It's no good just counting the raw number of medals won, you must divide by the population.  Surely it is no great effort for the USA to beat Australia, it has more than 10  times the population!  And China has 60 times more people than Australia.  So of course it should win more medals as it has more to choose from!!

But lets also ask why Australia is so successful.  It is because it has depth of sports involvement.  In most sports which Australia wins medals there  are many people involved in the sport at all levels. (and 5 of our top 6 sports are not even included the Olympics!!).  This is not true in China which has spent vast sums on an elite few.  I have often argued that China (especially as it is a "people's" country should have spent the money on developing grass root sports around the country for the health and wellbeing of the whole population, rather than the showcase event for elite professional athletes.[/quote]

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