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Australia is by far the smallest country (23M) to make-the-grade in recent times, and its almost entirely because of efforts in or on water.

• aaron695 10y ago
  ...And it puts in a disportionately huge amount of money into it (citation needed) Rather than other countries that spend money on stuff like science and things.
  • danieltillett 10y ago
    Yes I wish Australia put the effort into science that we do into sport.
  • lg 10y ago
    who are these countries that make big investments in science and not in sport? pretty sure politicians everywhere love funding big spectacles over backroom things like research
  • flukus 10y ago
    Funding elite sport is funding science to an extent.
    • yiyus 10y ago
      That is quite a stretch.
      • flukus 10y ago
        A stretch yes, but there is research going on at the AIS, try to eek out that half a percent performance boost.