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[Olympic Fan Darcy]

http://www.courierma...f-1226452907358


The Courier-Mail crunched the numbers to take stock of our mighty Queensland Olympians among the top nations on the table.
Every state, province or county of birth for all athletes received a score according to how many medals were won by athletes from those regions.
This was then divided by the region's population to produce a micro-level view of the most powerful sporting nurseries in the world.
And, you'll never guess, Queensland was clearly the best, with NSW and Victoria also faring well.
The best-performing US state was California, placing ninth. Five other US states rated a mention but not Michael Phelps' home state of Maryland

I am unsure if this is definitely factually correct as it is done by a Queensland paper however i'll leave that up to you to decide.

[Sir Rols]

Hmmmmm.

Maybe this should've gone in the Team Australia thread.

I await the first rebuttal in terms of Australia's final medal count versus Yorkshire's.

[Olympic Fan Darcy]

oh sh#t sorry

[Hobart]

Maybe that why AOC wants the next Aussie bid to come from Brisbane.

[Olympic Fan Darcy]

doubt it

[Alexjc]

Are you just trying to 'bait' a certain someone? ::-):

Edited by Alexjc, 18 August 2012 - 01:42 PM.

[Hobart]

always a blacksheep in the family

[barrack]

Grenada

Score: 1
Pop. (in millions): 0.10489
Score per million: 9.53
I realize that they only considered "top performing nations," but that makes this "provincial" comparison totally worthless. They should be comparing all the provinces if they want to make the claim of top performing province in the world.

[Blacksheep]

Very good

What it doesn't mention is

a) how this score was arrived at

whether they counted all the individual medals won in team sport like water polo and women's hockey

[Blacksheep]

p.s. the only reason the Dutch provinces scored so highly because every member of the Dutch hockey team was counted i.e. the Dutch National Hockey team was counted as 20 medals