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We crown the per capita Olympic champion

By Mike Philbrick
Page 2

Sunday, August 24, 2008

We all saw the medal trackers that said the United States and China were dominating the Olympics. Great for them, but consider this -- the U.S. has a population of 303,824,646 (according to July 2008 estimates on the CIA World Factbook Web site), and China is home to 1,330,044,605 people. That's a pretty big pool of athletes to pick from. What about Bahrain? It has only 718,306 potential Olympians. So Page 2 has decided to award a prize to the country that won the most medals per people in ...

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