One last thought on medal count, from the Los Angeles Times:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/
Medals Per Capita minutiae after Saturday:
-- Gasping and straining to the wire, Australia finally corralled enough medals, 46, to overtake feisty neighbor New Zealand, surely saving itself from hearing a slew of guff from chesty Kiwi Medals Per Capita enthusiasts. New Zealand’s nine medals from a measured population of 4,173,453 had kept it ahead of Australia for day upon day upon day, even as the latter hiked its medals total from 35 to 36 to 38 to 42 to 46 just panting away for favorable long division. Finally, it came.
-- With MPC aptitude amok in the former Soviet republics, from Armenia (No. 7) to Belarus (No. 10) to Estonia (No. 11) to Lithuania (No. 12) to Georgia (No. 15) to Azerbaijan (No. 21), and even to more populous brethren Kazakhstan (No. 24) and the Ukraine (No. 31), say hello to Latvia. That sturdy nation of 2,245,423, No. 7 in Athens 2004, has surged from nowhere to No. 14 with three late medals, including Maris Strombergs’ gold in the BMX, pleasing an MPC board of directors -- sorry, board of director -- who feels deprived from having had a childhood that totally lacked Olympic BMX.
-- As mentioned on previous days, Norway tends to rule the Winter Olympics MPC, a feat perhaps more Herculean than the Summer Olympic MPC given that often during the Winter Games, people who go outside would generally be considered insane. Well, during the weekend Norway has demonstrated its extreme versatility and uncommon studliness with a women’s heavyweight taekwondo silver medal from Nina Solheim, a men’s javelin gold from Andreas Thorkildsen and a women’s team handball gold. That brings it to 10 medals, to sixth place and to undeniable status as a two-season, multi-discipline mastodon.
The top 10 (pending Iceland’s Sunday medal):
1. Bahamas (2) - 153,725
2. Jamaica (11) - 254,939
3. Slovenia (5) - 401,542
4. Australia (46) - 447,844
5. New Zealand (9) - 463,717
6. Norway (10) - 464,445
7. Armenia (6) - 494,764
8. Cuba (22) - 519,270
9. Trinidad & Tobago (2) - 523,683
10. Belarus (18) - 538,097
Selected others (from 86 countries with medals):
11. Estonia (2) - 653,802
14. Latvia (3) - 748,474
25. Great Britain (47) - 1,296,678
29. South Korea (31) - 1,588,156
30. France (38) - 1,685,730
31. Ukraine (27) - 1,701,640
35. Germany (41) - 2,009,013
36. Russia (69) - 2,039,160
39. Spain (16) - 2,528,193
44. United States (107) - 2,839,482
67. China (96) - 13,854,630
81. Sudan (1) - 40,218,455
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