Name: What Country REALLY Wins Most Olympic Medals? | Per Capita Olympic Medals by Country | 1896 - 2021 🥇
Uploaded: 2021-08-12T23:16:50+00:00
Duration: 3 min 26 s
Description: Olympic medal counts don’t really show you which country was the most successful since countries with large populations have a huge advantage. There’s a better way to measure a nation’s Olympic succes

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Olympic medal counts don’t really show you which country was the most successful since countries with large populations have a huge advantage. There’s a better way to measure a nation’s Olympic success: per capita (medals per one million people) Olympic Medal by country.

This data visualization and bar chart race ranks each country's per capita medal count by year from 1896 to 2016. The Gold, Silver and Bronze medals are added to get the total medals. This video only takes into account the Summer Olympics.

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Chapters:
00:00 Naked athletes in ancient Olympics
00:24 1500 year hiatus for Olympic games
00:42 Why do Olympians bite their medals?
01:00 What do Olympic rings stand for?
01:18 The first Olympic drug suspension
01:36 The Olympic Torch Relay is not an ancient tradition
01:58 The Olympic flame is always lit
02:16 Olympian who ran a marathon without shoes
02:34 Olympic tiebreak
02:53 Figure skating was initially part of the Summer Olympics
03:13 Lighting the Olympic Cauldron in Rio de Janeiro in 2016!