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I have no idea, but at a guess, I suppose the number of people in the country _with easy access to the sports_ is the more important number than the raw populat
by IneffablePigeon 5y ago
I have no idea, but at a guess, I suppose the number of people in the country _with easy access to the sports_ is the more important number than the raw population. There's 300 million people in the US but how many of them have access to snowsports?
It might also just be a reflection of the distribution of medals available - Norway has dominated in the cross country skiing based events, but Germany dominates in the sliding events. Between biathlon,cross country skiing and nordic combined there are 26 disciplines, but luge + skeleton + bobsleigh have only 10 between them.
- mongol 5y agoComparing with Canada, which is crazy about ice hockey, there are only two medals to win there.
- dmurray 5y agoAn odd way to put it, since there will be 50-odd gold medalists and 50 physical gold medals handed out to ice hockey players. If Canada picks up some of those it will be a more accurate representation of the level of participation in winter sports in that country. The "two medals" is a quirk of one particular way of displaying medal tables.
- mongol 5y agoYes that is true but in medal tables such as this one it would only count as two https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/a...