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Armenia winning per capita medals race

by julianw | August 13, 2008 at 09:27 am

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With two medals so far and a population of 1,483,293, Armenia is winning the medals per capita portion of the Olympics. The U.S. and China are in 30th and 40th place, respectively, and Canada, with no medals yet, is the undefined error you get on a calculator when you try to divide a whole number by zero.

Chuck Culpepper of the Los Angeles Times has been tracking this and as of his latest posting yesterday, the Beijing Olympics "MPC" leaders are — you guessed it — Armenia. Australia is No. 2. USA? 30th. China? 40th. (We have a feeling the Aussies might climb back to No. 1 after their efforts in the pool this morning.) Australia is not the two-time defending MPC champs, however. That honor goes to the Bahamas, which has the population of a Shanghai city block. They were tops in Sydney and in Athens.

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rpshen

at 09:34 on August 13th, 2008

Lol at "undefined error".

Sanjay Jha

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at 00:05 on August 14th, 2008

Julianw, I like this story. It's good stuff. India would stand at last. With over a billion population India has first time won a gold in this Olympics.

Janjik (not verified)

at 21:17 on August 14th, 2008

Hi,

As an Canadian of armenian descent, I just wanted to let you know that the population of Armenia is actually 2,968,586. That number that you got (1.4 million was the number of medals per capita since at the time of your article, armenia had 2 medals, therefore 1 per 1.4 million people). But now with 4 medals, they are 1 per 740,000 people...it's sad that I can't say the same about us canadians.