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Why is Canada's medal count so high per capita?

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NaughtyusMaximus

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AFAIK, there is very little (if any) funding of Canadian athletes, and yet the ratio (compared to say, the Americans) of medals per capita is very high. Canada has ~ 1/2 as many medals as the USA, but the USA has ~10x the amount of people as Canada...

What is it that makes Canada that high on the medal count list?
 
Winter Olympics...have you seen the country of Canada? If we had olympics dedicated to lawn darts and steak grilling, we'd be tearing it up too! j/k of course
 
You haven't seen Norway have you?

Norway: Population 40 million, Medals: 236.
USA: Population 281 million, Medals: 157.
Canada: Population 30 million, Medals: 78.
 
I'm boggled by the seeming obsession (or at least preoccupation) with the "Medal Count". Leave the whole thing to the pure competition, I say.
 
Probably the same reason why Australia only had 2 medals (surprising ones at that).


Australia is a relatively warm country, and thus play mostly summer sports. This is reflected in their good showings at the summer games and low medal count at winter games. Canada plays a lot of winter sports, so our athletes are channeled into those sports more often, and are trained better in those sports.
 


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All those weired countires are former Soviet Union. So Russians should have the most medal counts.
 
umm.... Canada is located north of United States, and typically colder than the U.S. so it makes sense that winter sports are more popular in canada than U.S.
thats why hockey is a much more popular sport in canada than in U.S.
 
Norway, Finland and Sweden are all doing quite well, and all 3 tend to have long, cold winters.
Denmark is doing very bad, while situated between Germany (which does well) and the rest of Scandinavia (first 3 countries mentioned).
The Netherlands are doing far better while situated basically to the southwest of Denmark. The Dutch have a long history of iceskating, the Swedes/Norwegians/Fins/Austrians have a history of skiing, the Danes have a history of doing badly 😉
Belgium (just to the south of the Netherlands) is doing quite bad, as they don't have as many canals/rivers/lakes as the Netherlands, and so does the UK cause they have a sea climat.

It's all a matter of how the country is situated (climat), the layout (if there is not much open water there won't be many icescaters), and the culture (when half the country is ice in the winter you quickly adapt your ways of transportation and recreation).
 


<< Winter Olympics...have you seen the country of Canada? If we had olympics dedicated to lawn darts and steak grilling, we'd be tearing it up too! j/k of course >>

I have a lawn darts set from the 1960's. 😀

nik (bring it on crouton! 😛)
 
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