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As the Olympic schedule comes to a close, it has been noticed by many Australians that we have descended down the technical medal tally – eventually being knocked off our first place from the 1st week.
However, while that descent has only been to 4th, the tiny slip down the medal tally has seen the nation reminding the world that there are only 26 million of us.
In what has become familiar tale to anyone that has ever watched the olympics, the first half of the games has sent the nation into a patriotic state of euphoria as we stack up gold and hold our own against the biggest nations in the world.
But what comes up must go down and Australia’s might in the water is usually levelled out by a bunch of other events that we don’t dominate in.
With many Australians first taking aim at America’s system of counting Olympic success by ignoring the gold medal tally, it seems our new strategy of keeping cocky Americans at bay is to count medals per capita.
“I mean there’s like 400 million of them! imagine if we had that many people!” Said Luke Braceway (33), an Australian in Paris that takes extreme pride in Australia punching above its weight.
Despite being out done on the track by countries with a smaller population than Newcastle, such as St Lucia, many Aussies now believe achievement in sport is a numbers game and that we should be factoring in population a lot more when we look at Olympic success.
“I believe the Olympic medal tally should factor in population, it’s only fair.”
“Apart from when it comes to the Kiwis obviously.”
“And St Lucia. Like they just had one gun athlete.”
“So it should be for the countries that get over like 10 medals I reckon.”
“Sorry New Zealand.”
“You can be the top of the 2nd tier per capita medal tally if you want.”
