1:07 "An Uzbekistan player won the last chess olympiad" The chess olympiad is a team sport! Four players from every country play against each other as a team, and it was the Uzbekistani team as a whole that won gold in the last olympiad.
You may find this interesting: the italian town of Roncadelle (my beautiful home town) has a population of less than 10000 people, but 3 of the 12 gold medals Italy won at the 2024 Olympic Games come from people that grew up here. I'm not a sports statistician but I am fairly sure this is some kind of record.
@@timheesterbeek4597yes, has it has already been pointed out, if it's a single person is a different kind of incredible achievement. Michael Phelps took home more gold from the olympics than some thieves in a robbery, and that's nothing short of an historical achievement. What I think is incredible in this case is that 3 different people won 3 gold medals in 3 different sports
Cultural impact is huge here. Australia, for example, is both a very sporting nation, and also happens to be a nation where learning to swim is something everyone does. It's why we're so competitive against the US in the pool despite having less than a 12th of their population.
I think the point you're missing about Australia is sport is LIFE there. The money is essential, yes, but also the massive role of sport in the culture plays a huge part.
To a point yes and no. I'm Australian and while sport and physical activity is ingrained in our culture, observing where our medals come from, you see that a large chunk of our medals come just from swimming. And also the government is wealthy enough to be able to support many of the smaller sports that win medals as well
Something to keep in mind about Olympics' performance is that the US universities and NCAA sports are "factories" for world class athletes. More than 840 Olympians who were trained in American universities competed for countries other than for Team USA. I know that my university provided multiple medals for countries other than the USA. Some like the Gold winning pole vaulter representing Sweden are even US born citizens with a parent from another country.
A large population gives a country a big pool of potential talent, but there's a limit as to how many athletes can be sent. Some events only allow a max. of 2 per country. Every country had under 600 athletes.
I feel like Australia has a mix in terms of "trained" medals vs raw ability medals. We are one of the strongest swimming nations in the world. Having most of you population live next to a beach definitely helps that mind you. But about a third of our medals were from swimming alone
Yep, our swimming medals really bumps up our medal count. Other than swimming, we aren't particularly good at much else and have the occasional medals from small sports that our government is wealthy enough to support athletes from those sports
Northern Ireland, although we don’t have a team, won I believe 3 individual golds and a bronze, and athletes won an additional gold, silver and bronze as part of teams. Incredible return for a nation of less than 2 million. Northern Irish athletes do compete for team GB, or Ireland if they so wish.
Hong Kong is not a country, its chief executive is appointed by the Chinese president, the army is stationed in mainland China, and the Chinese flag and the Hong Kong regional flag are hung in front of the government building. If you are educated, check Wikipedia instead of reading fake propaganda. Taiwan's identity as a country is not recognized by the United Nations, although it is not controlled by China.
The 3 Chinese entities are entirely different countries. Chinese Taipei (AKA Taiwan) was forced to adopt that name because China threw it’s massive weight around and won’t let them compete as their real name. HongKong got a guarantee to be independent for another 20-odd years, but as we all know from recent events that “guarantee” is worth less than Neville Chamberlain’s piece of signed paper from Hitler. Neither the Taiwanese nor HongKongers see themselves as Chinese by nationality, only by ethnicity. HongKongers have no choice on the matter, but maybe Taiwan may get to keep their de facto independence.
Why do my family and friends and everyone I meet think they are Chinese when I live in Hong Kong? Are they propaganda clips from BBC or CNN or Taiwanese imposters?
And where the dutch can only win in Ice skating events because the rest is mountain based sports and we don't have mountains, but we're founded on lakes😂
North Korea was a big one for me. They really made a comeback at this Olympics. I found watching their athletes was super enjoyable. Their divers were absolutely insane! Jo Jin-mi and Kim Mi-rae got a silver in synchronised diving (behind the best diving team at the Olympics: China) and Kim Mi-rae got another Bronze coming behind two Chinesw divers in singles diving. North Korea also came second with a silver medal in mixed doubles Table Tennis too which was an amazing game versus China. They got two bronzes in Wrestling as well. Overall North Korea really did a great job this year and it just goes to further show how amazing East Asia are at sports compared to the rest of the world.
@@fuzzypenguin-gop4457yeh it's designed like that by the state because doing well at sports can distract them from their terrible lives and help them feel a sense of nationality they otherwise wouldn't have. It's on purpose
South and Southeast Asia has to be historically one of the worst performing regions in the Olympics. All that population and not too many medals to show for it. I'd love for Muay Thai to get added to give SEA countries more of an opportunity to show off in sports they specialize in
@@RockiesCanadaWell that's the thing. Sports such as Muay Thai and sepak takraw, which are native sports here in Southeast Asia, are not added in Olympics but present in Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games). If these sports were added in the Olympics, anyone of us here could've gotten medals for those events. The absence of such native sports may explain why Vietnam dominates SEA Games but goes home empty-handed at the Olympics. LA28 unfortunately will look more like a bleaker Olympics than Paris 2024. Boxing will be removed (the Philippines and Thailand have a lot of medals in boxing) and they plan to add sports that favor the UK and Australia (cricket, squash).
Vietnam is the best performing country at SEA games, in Olympics sadly 0 since 2020. Closest shot for them was 4th in shooting. At least they have a gold medal already, Malaysia still has 0
Across Europe, the Netherlands has the #9 largest population (or #12 if you count russia turkey and kazakhstan like wikipedia does for some reason). And the #7 biggest economy in europe, including the above-mentioned border cases.
@@RedmondBarryII At some point economy is more important than population. So if we take 7th biggest economy, than the Netherlands still did outperform as they finished 2nd of the European countries (in gold medals).
The olympics lost all of its credibility and position as a neutral way of countries and cultures to get together. Russia and Israel gets mentioned more than enough.
5:30 no its because the Peoples republic of China is one country, Hong Kong is technically an independent state and "Chinese Taipei" is Taiwan (The Republic of China) which is a fully independent nation that has never been under the rule of the communists. so they are three different teams because the are three different countries.
Indeed, referring to “Chinese Taipei” as “China” is a rather dangerous statement. Taiwan, or the RoChina is distancing itself from China, despite having it in its official name. A growing number of Taiwanese people are considering complete independence from anything that can be considered China, even relinquishing all claims to the Chinese mainland.
Did you know that the top leaders of Hong Kong are appointed by China? The flags of China and Hong Kong are placed at the gate of the Hong Kong government. Hong Kong has a certain degree of autonomy, but it is limited to the financial, cultural and sports fields. Hong Kong has no army, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army has troops stationed in Hong Kong.
If you really watched the Olympics, you would have noticed that when Hong Kong won the gold medal, the national anthem played was not the Chinese national anthem.
I calculated a cumulative binomial distribution table (for gold medals only) and the Netherlands topped it by miles. Australia came second and my own New Zealand came third. USA was fourth.
@@korakysAustralia sure is crazy impressive in summergames, Norway even more amazing with only about 5mio people raking in medals like mad at the wintergames. I do think we Dutchies punch well above our weight being able to do well with such a small nation scoring top 10 in both winter and summergames. Not many nations perform well in both
@@erikrotjeknor I agree; I see Australia, Netherlands and Samoa as countries that bat well (to use a cricket analogy); perhaps a couple more countries belong in this group.
I find it interesting that you say Australia is one of the most prosperous countries on an individual level, because I actually agree that it feels like we've somehow managed to avoid many of the terrible things you hear about coming out of other Western nations (particularly the US/UK) over the last while. Would be fascinated if you did a whole video on Australia at some point, maybe closer to our Federal elections next year! Would be super interested to see what an outsider thinks, given most outsiders _don't_ think about Australia much beyond "oh yeah, koalas are cute" 😛
There is a discussion in Germany right now about what can be done about the bad performance of German athletes. Being 10th place is way lower than usual.
* United States participate in 29 Summer Olympic since 1896 get 3,904 medals * Great Britain participate in 29 Summer Olympic since 1896 and get 994 medals * France participate in 29 Summer Olympic since 1896 and get 939 medals * Soviet Union participated in 9 Summer Olympic since 1952 got 1,204 medals * China participate in 12 Summer Olympic since 1952 get 804 medals * Russia participated in 6 Summer Olympic since 1996 got 544 medals Even ROC did better at Tokyo than France in their home ground
Fun for you to choose Kenya as an example of cycling when Chris Froome is literally from Kenya (but later chose to represent UK). I get your point but you probably couldn't have picked a more unfortunate example (maybe except Eritrea).
5:16 China is NOT having three teams. Chinese taipei = taiwan (ROC). “Chinese taipei” is governed by the taiwanese government and completely sovereign from national olympic committee of PRC. It would make more sense if you argue that China is having two teams (since hong kong is an SAR governed by PRC). Just like the “northern ireland” (actually ireland) that you mentioned, which is completely independent from the UK committee (because UK and ireland are two separate countries)
The medal table is weird by itself, as the amount of medals is skewed by so many factors (population, gdp, gdp/capita, sport variants,...) it's impossible to compare it fairly as if every country has a similar chance. In the end, I feel like it's best to just follow the sports / athletes you want to cheer for without caring for some "overall results" as if they told us anything
Yes, rugby is played by millions of people in the US; it's just that there isn't much money in it, so people pursue other sports instead. They are scheduled to host the Rugby World Cup in 2031, after Australia in 2027.
There's TH-cam channels that does a breakdown of whondows well when compensating for wealth, population size and all sort of things Some countries definitely stand out. Norway still performs *way* out there in winter sports. But in summer it's other countries. And then there's some that does well in both. Sweden, Germany but also some poor countries does really well actually. At least they did if you go back some time.
Yes, rugby is popular in the US, not at a professional level but in college and amateur play. Why would the US have more rugby medals than the UK, which invented it? We have 4x the population of UK. So our x million amateur players make up a good Olympic team.
interestingly US is the reigning olympic champion in the proper full 15 player team format. they should bring it back to the olympics and not just the shortened 7 on 7 format. if basketball gets full proper format and the 3x basketball, rugby should too i reckon.
Also the UK has to participate as Team GB at the olympics. But they always participate s thr home countries in all other circumstances. Its just not something they care about often
This video is an example of someone who's interested more about statistical abnormalities than actual sports. You ask why does GB have a gold medal in MTB? Because the winner is one of the best in the world. Funny that a Brit doesn't know that.
I think you should just stick to Minecraft because you clearly know nothing about the Olympics and each country’s historical history with their sports 🤣
NZ was in the top three for Medals per Capita. Although it helps that we had Lisa Carrington who was entered into three Kayaking events and got gold in each one. Most sports only have one event not three or more (e.g. only one high jump event so only one medal available). So it matters what sports people enter into - some enter into several swimming, kayaking, gymnastic or running events etc but usually only in one track event.
The chess olympiad is a team tournament and the uzbek team won. The best chess players are american/chinese/indian generally and the best is Magnus Carlson who is Norwegian. The reason they are less represented is because it's not the pinnacle of chess, unlike the olympics being the greatest accomplishment of the top athletes
You missed the fact that many athletes change nationalities as those countries pay them to represent them. Qatar pays Kenyan runners 1000 dollars a month and wayyyy more when they win in international competitions.
Do you really have a clue... When you mention Northern Ireland you really mess up... You click on the Irish Team as if it was just Northern Ireland - and question why it is not part of the UK team.. Well maybe a little understanding of history would help - and maybe a little understanding of what that flag on the back of your chair really means to most of my country..
Belarus and Russia have sent like 17 and 15 people and some of them got medals and they don't even appear on the the medals list, its the AIN independent athletes. If you want to see were they got medals, you will have to go to the schedule and choose AIN
Brisbane is a great choice for the Olympics. The state of Queensland where Brisbane is the capital produces twice as many Gold Medal athletes as the next Australian state.
Toycat you missed to do an analysis of the gold medal tally per capita which is what counts for this video. The Australian media did this to muck around. Australia was leading for a bit then we got taken over by the Netherlands as in last two days we stopped the gold medals while the Dutch had a late gold surge. Then, shock horror 😱😱New Zealand overtook us too 😄😄. Doing it this way means that you can crown the true world beaters of these games St Lucia and Domenica! 🏆🏆
USA is refusing to recognize chess as a sport and chess players as athletes. Each time something debuts, it can only become permanent at least 8 years later. LA or Australia can include karate that debuted in Japan. Australia is first that can include breakdancing again etc.
What? Plenty of sports are introduced and remain in place. Like Rugby and Golf, or surfing and climbing. The real reason why chess isnt at the olympics is that the governing body hasnt applied to be an olympic sport. The IOC accept applications, it doesnt force sports to participate And no, Karate cant be included at either Brisbane or LA because the governing body didnt apply. Also LA has already confirmed its sports
you need to know more about the geography of the olympics. Chinese Taipei is the olympic name for taiwan or the republic of china they are a seperate country
Chess used to be in the Olympics agss ago. I guess its just not as sporty as breaking or climbing a fake rock wall really fast. There is the World Mind Games, which opperates kind of like an Olympic event but for more intellectual events. Chess, Shogi, Go, etc.
Toycat you need to go to Fiji now to apologize for not honouring them and their silver medal. They are very good at Rugby 7s even if they missed out on the gold medal this year.
Taiwan is not a part of the Peoples Republic of China, and is forced by China and the IOC to compete under the name Chinese Taipei or be banned from the games.
Strange to say the person or country who took most medals are the best. Gold is always weighted better. Nr #1 medalist didn’t take a single gold. Yes, Olympic athlete and well done. But without medals you’re not the best
Australia has a tiny population, they are pulling well above their weight. I thought france would push for third place. It's what the UK did the last couple of olympics, i guess they didn't put enough money into it, over the last couple of years.
It's not all about how wealthy you are, there's also how much money you're willing to spend. Switzerland performed much poorer than similarly sized, but significantly poorer Sweden. I presume that the Swiss government and sponsors just aren't as generous as the Swedish ones.
The United States can never live down the embarrassment of losing in the first Olympic skateboarding games, and not winning gold in any of them while being the inventors of the sport. The rest of the medals are trash
My friend... just because they invented the sport... doesn't mean they are the best at it. The biggest example is the United Kingdom ...they invented football (soccer), cricket and rugby ... and the best countries in these sports are... Brazil, India and New Zealand.
Northern Ireland is a part of the GB team. The full name is Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but for whatever reason they are usually just called Great Britain, probably because it is less of a mouthful for commentators.
A person who competes in archery is an archer
No, it's definitely archerist now
@@jayaltairi am pretty sure it's the antichrist (it's literally my name)
wow, I didn't know that little bro
Hmmm make sense 😮
I think it's archeryistian. Or is it archer? I can't decide
Finland didn't get any medals in this Olympics, first time in their history 😢
good
Womp womp
Yes. So they are no longer with Sweden to have taken medals in each summer and Winter Olympics since 1908. Sweden is alone on that feat. now.
🏅Here you are my finnish friend.
@@alfaseeds13 stay annoying
1:07 "An Uzbekistan player won the last chess olympiad"
The chess olympiad is a team sport! Four players from every country play against each other as a team, and it was the Uzbekistani team as a whole that won gold in the last olympiad.
Five. Having one reserve has measurable impact on final results.
the Uzbek* team not Uzbekistani
Seeing Lithuania above India was surprising knowing the difference in population.
Knowing India’s lack of interest in every sport that isn’t cricket didn’t surprise me.
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 If india doesnt have interest Why they sent 117 athletes. Pakistan only sent 7 athlets and won Gold
The fact that a country like St. Lucia being higher ranked than India, is just a complete humiliation!:(
I mean, ex soviet countries are just built different bro 👺
You may find this interesting: the italian town of Roncadelle (my beautiful home town) has a population of less than 10000 people, but 3 of the 12 gold medals Italy won at the 2024 Olympic Games come from people that grew up here. I'm not a sports statistician but I am fairly sure this is some kind of record.
@@paolovalzelli Harry Lavreysen won 3 gold medals and is from Luyksgestel with 3700 people
@@timheesterbeek4597 yeah but that's one person
@@timheesterbeek4597yes, has it has already been pointed out, if it's a single person is a different kind of incredible achievement. Michael Phelps took home more gold from the olympics than some thieves in a robbery, and that's nothing short of an historical achievement. What I think is incredible in this case is that 3 different people won 3 gold medals in 3 different sports
Its very interresting that Austria as a landloked country won their 2 gold medals in sailing.
I read your comment as Australia at first and I was so confused
Cultural impact is huge here. Australia, for example, is both a very sporting nation, and also happens to be a nation where learning to swim is something everyone does. It's why we're so competitive against the US in the pool despite having less than a 12th of their population.
Yeah Australia’s placement is the most impressive by far
I think the point you're missing about Australia is sport is LIFE there. The money is essential, yes, but also the massive role of sport in the culture plays a huge part.
Is sport plural outside the USA?
We say “sports” are crucial, not “sport” is crucial
Idk, just an interesting think (I’m not judging btw)
I'd say those two are connected. The wealthier you are, the more time you have to concern yourself with sports and leisure.
@@hidaven2006I’m judging
To a point yes and no. I'm Australian and while sport and physical activity is ingrained in our culture, observing where our medals come from, you see that a large chunk of our medals come just from swimming. And also the government is wealthy enough to be able to support many of the smaller sports that win medals as well
@@hidaven2006 yes, sport is singular or plural in australia depending on context
Something to keep in mind about Olympics' performance is that the US universities and NCAA sports are "factories" for world class athletes. More than 840 Olympians who were trained in American universities competed for countries other than for Team USA. I know that my university provided multiple medals for countries other than the USA. Some like the Gold winning pole vaulter representing Sweden are even US born citizens with a parent from another country.
Damn that’s awesome. The US has by far the best college’s and universities in the world for sports and academics. MIT is ranked #1 in the world
11:07 he said, with two Union flags hanging behind him
A large population gives a country a big pool of potential talent, but there's a limit as to how many athletes can be sent. Some events only allow a max. of 2 per country. Every country had under 600 athletes.
I feel like Australia has a mix in terms of "trained" medals vs raw ability medals. We are one of the strongest swimming nations in the world. Having most of you population live next to a beach definitely helps that mind you. But about a third of our medals were from swimming alone
Yep, our swimming medals really bumps up our medal count. Other than swimming, we aren't particularly good at much else and have the occasional medals from small sports that our government is wealthy enough to support athletes from those sports
Northern Ireland, although we don’t have a team, won I believe 3 individual golds and a bronze, and athletes won an additional gold, silver and bronze as part of teams. Incredible return for a nation of less than 2 million.
Northern Irish athletes do compete for team GB, or Ireland if they so wish.
2 golds and a bronze
wales also got three golds, three silvers and seven bronze. us small nations of britain are doing well for ourselves
Also Centra rocks
The swimmer who got golds for Ireland? I'm guessing from his accent he was born and brought up Scouse!
Taiwan and Hong Kong are DIFFERENT countries!!
Lmao no they're not
Hong Kong is not a country, its chief executive is appointed by the Chinese president, the army is stationed in mainland China, and the Chinese flag and the Hong Kong regional flag are hung in front of the government building. If you are educated, check Wikipedia instead of reading fake propaganda. Taiwan's identity as a country is not recognized by the United Nations, although it is not controlled by China.
The 3 Chinese entities are entirely different countries. Chinese Taipei (AKA Taiwan) was forced to adopt that name because China threw it’s massive weight around and won’t let them compete as their real name. HongKong got a guarantee to be independent for another 20-odd years, but as we all know from recent events that “guarantee” is worth less than Neville Chamberlain’s piece of signed paper from Hitler.
Neither the Taiwanese nor HongKongers see themselves as Chinese by nationality, only by ethnicity.
HongKongers have no choice on the matter, but maybe Taiwan may get to keep their de facto independence.
In your wet dream😆
Why do my family and friends and everyone I meet think they are Chinese when I live in Hong Kong? Are they propaganda clips from BBC or CNN or Taiwanese imposters?
The results are far more skewed in the Winter Olympics, where small countries like Switzerland win medals way out of proportion with their size.
And where the dutch can only win in Ice skating events because the rest is mountain based sports and we don't have mountains, but we're founded on lakes😂
New Zealand and uzbekistan performed so well
North Korea was a big one for me. They really made a comeback at this Olympics. I found watching their athletes was super enjoyable. Their divers were absolutely insane! Jo Jin-mi and Kim Mi-rae got a silver in synchronised diving (behind the best diving team at the Olympics: China) and Kim Mi-rae got another Bronze coming behind two Chinesw divers in singles diving. North Korea also came second with a silver medal in mixed doubles Table Tennis too which was an amazing game versus China. They got two bronzes in Wrestling as well. Overall North Korea really did a great job this year and it just goes to further show how amazing East Asia are at sports compared to the rest of the world.
Notice how most of the medals they win are from events China is good at. I suspect China has been helping them
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I really loved watching them in table tennis, their nation is so messed up so it is nice that they have some reason to be happy.
This comment is suspicious honestly.
@@fuzzypenguin-gop4457yeh it's designed like that by the state because doing well at sports can distract them from their terrible lives and help them feel a sense of nationality they otherwise wouldn't have. It's on purpose
The Philippines just had the best Olympic performance in all of Southeast Asia. Shocking that Vietnam didn't win any medal at all this year.
South and Southeast Asia has to be historically one of the worst performing regions in the Olympics. All that population and not too many medals to show for it. I'd love for Muay Thai to get added to give SEA countries more of an opportunity to show off in sports they specialize in
@@RockiesCanadaWell that's the thing. Sports such as Muay Thai and sepak takraw, which are native sports here in Southeast Asia, are not added in Olympics but present in Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games). If these sports were added in the Olympics, anyone of us here could've gotten medals for those events. The absence of such native sports may explain why Vietnam dominates SEA Games but goes home empty-handed at the Olympics.
LA28 unfortunately will look more like a bleaker Olympics than Paris 2024. Boxing will be removed (the Philippines and Thailand have a lot of medals in boxing) and they plan to add sports that favor the UK and Australia (cricket, squash).
Vietnam is the best performing country at SEA games, in Olympics sadly 0 since 2020. Closest shot for them was 4th in shooting. At least they have a gold medal already, Malaysia still has 0
I am kind of surprised you skipped over the Netherlands. Do you know how little our country is and how many people we have?
Across Europe, the Netherlands has the #9 largest population (or #12 if you count russia turkey and kazakhstan like wikipedia does for some reason).
And the #7 biggest economy in europe, including the above-mentioned border cases.
You are small in size but big on a political/economic scale
Yeah but they're weirdly obsessed with bikes and sent a child rapist to represent them
@@shqip_sumejja political scale doesn't really matter in this case. Just population and economie.
@@RedmondBarryII At some point economy is more important than population. So if we take 7th biggest economy, than the Netherlands still did outperform as they finished 2nd of the European countries (in gold medals).
The olympics lost all of its credibility and position as a neutral way of countries and cultures to get together. Russia and Israel gets mentioned more than enough.
The olympics have banned plenty of countries for political stances of leaders in the past tho lol
@@Me-ui1zy which ones?
@@AlexxonielAxis countries were banned back then
Did you watch any of the Olympics? You seem so clueless about the sports. Canoe slalom and rugby sevens is huge in australia
5:30 no its because the Peoples republic of China is one country, Hong Kong is technically an independent state and "Chinese Taipei" is Taiwan (The Republic of China) which is a fully independent nation that has never been under the rule of the communists. so they are three different teams because the are three different countries.
Indeed, referring to “Chinese Taipei” as “China” is a rather dangerous statement. Taiwan, or the RoChina is distancing itself from China, despite having it in its official name. A growing number of Taiwanese people are considering complete independence from anything that can be considered China, even relinquishing all claims to the Chinese mainland.
Did you know that the top leaders of Hong Kong are appointed by China? The flags of China and Hong Kong are placed at the gate of the Hong Kong government. Hong Kong has a certain degree of autonomy, but it is limited to the financial, cultural and sports fields. Hong Kong has no army, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army has troops stationed in Hong Kong.
If you really watched the Olympics, you would have noticed that when Hong Kong won the gold medal, the national anthem played was not the Chinese national anthem.
@@langhuang9795 yeah in direct violation of the treaty when the british left hong kong.
what is that under your nose
Nether boogers
it looks like a charlie chaplin moustache
Herpes
@@cornheadahh more like two
i think this guy might have adhd
Why
Why are you ignoring the Netherlands? :(
Exactly he even says that Australia can get more golds with a small population even though we got more golds per capita than Australia
It’s because he is British and pissed we beat them
I calculated a cumulative binomial distribution table (for gold medals only) and the Netherlands topped it by miles. Australia came second and my own New Zealand came third. USA was fourth.
@@korakysAustralia sure is crazy impressive in summergames, Norway even more amazing with only about 5mio people raking in medals like mad at the wintergames. I do think we Dutchies punch well above our weight being able to do well with such a small nation scoring top 10 in both winter and summergames. Not many nations perform well in both
@@erikrotjeknor I agree; I see Australia, Netherlands and Samoa as countries that bat well (to use a cricket analogy); perhaps a couple more countries belong in this group.
You are like my inner monologue when I hyperfixate on Google Maps or Wikipedia
I find it interesting that you say Australia is one of the most prosperous countries on an individual level, because I actually agree that it feels like we've somehow managed to avoid many of the terrible things you hear about coming out of other Western nations (particularly the US/UK) over the last while. Would be fascinated if you did a whole video on Australia at some point, maybe closer to our Federal elections next year! Would be super interested to see what an outsider thinks, given most outsiders _don't_ think about Australia much beyond "oh yeah, koalas are cute" 😛
knocking on wood rn we are not far off
‘Don’t look into Dr Congo unless you want to have a sad day’ is a phenomenal phrase. So true.
There is a discussion in Germany right now about what can be done about the bad performance of German athletes. Being 10th place is way lower than usual.
The Cold War and the two Germany's (Germanies?) created fierce competition. In a post-Cold War world, sport lost a lot of its status in Germany
I can imagine that being outdone by the Dutch in such a way might raise some questions.
I like the Moustache it's has a Nice Aesthetic
* United States participate in 29 Summer
Olympic since 1896 get 3,904 medals
* Great Britain participate in 29 Summer
Olympic since 1896 and get 994 medals
* France participate in 29 Summer Olympic
since 1896 and get 939 medals
* Soviet Union participated in 9 Summer Olympic
since 1952 got 1,204 medals
* China participate in 12 Summer Olympic since
1952 get 804 medals
* Russia participated in 6 Summer Olympic
since 1996 got 544 medals
Even ROC did better at Tokyo than France in their home ground
Doping.
5:20 UK brings 4 teams to football tournaments.
Olympics is the only place where they show up as one unified GBR team.
Fun for you to choose Kenya as an example of cycling when Chris Froome is literally from Kenya (but later chose to represent UK). I get your point but you probably couldn't have picked a more unfortunate example (maybe except Eritrea).
5:16 China is NOT having three teams. Chinese taipei = taiwan (ROC). “Chinese taipei” is governed by the taiwanese government and completely sovereign from national olympic committee of PRC. It would make more sense if you argue that China is having two teams (since hong kong is an SAR governed by PRC). Just like the “northern ireland” (actually ireland) that you mentioned, which is completely independent from the UK committee (because UK and ireland are two separate countries)
i want this man to present literally everything
The medal table is weird by itself, as the amount of medals is skewed by so many factors (population, gdp, gdp/capita, sport variants,...) it's impossible to compare it fairly as if every country has a similar chance.
In the end, I feel like it's best to just follow the sports / athletes you want to cheer for without caring for some "overall results" as if they told us anything
Not sure about the dictator moustache, Andrew 😝
1:08 I was in Chennai when the chess Olympiad happened, never expected so much hype from the host city of a chess Olympiad, but India did win overall
14:08 You evidently have not been on social media the last few weeks - everyone was watching the USA Women's Rugby Sevens 😂
Uzbekistan's placing was because of Genghis khans blood
Yes, rugby is played by millions of people in the US; it's just that there isn't much money in it, so people pursue other sports instead. They are scheduled to host the Rugby World Cup in 2031, after Australia in 2027.
There's TH-cam channels that does a breakdown of whondows well when compensating for wealth, population size and all sort of things
Some countries definitely stand out.
Norway still performs *way* out there in winter sports.
But in summer it's other countries.
And then there's some that does well in both.
Sweden, Germany but also some poor countries does really well actually.
At least they did if you go back some time.
What’s it called
Yes, rugby is popular in the US, not at a professional level but in college and amateur play. Why would the US have more rugby medals than the UK, which invented it? We have 4x the population of UK. So our x million amateur players make up a good Olympic team.
interestingly US is the reigning olympic champion in the proper full 15 player team format. they should bring it back to the olympics and not just the shortened 7 on 7 format. if basketball gets full proper format and the 3x basketball, rugby should too i reckon.
Also the UK has to participate as Team GB at the olympics. But they always participate s thr home countries in all other circumstances. Its just not something they care about often
Add the results from the Summer and Winter Olympics together
Youre just ignoring our historic 6th place? (Netherlands). Look at how small we are
It's ok, he didn't really mention us New Zealand either, we are tiny and poor.
UK is the 6th economy only coming 7th place must be devastating
This video is an example of someone who's interested more about statistical abnormalities than actual sports.
You ask why does GB have a gold medal in MTB? Because the winner is one of the best in the world. Funny that a Brit doesn't know that.
I think you should just stick to Minecraft because you clearly know nothing about the Olympics and each country’s historical history with their sports 🤣
Guys he said he didn’t watch the Olympics so of course he doesn’t know what these sports are
NZ was in the top three for Medals per Capita. Although it helps that we had Lisa Carrington who was entered into three Kayaking events and got gold in each one. Most sports only have one event not three or more (e.g. only one high jump event so only one medal available). So it matters what sports people enter into - some enter into several swimming, kayaking, gymnastic or running events etc but usually only in one track event.
What's that funny moustache?
Taiwan -- Can Xi go there? No -- It's not China
Hong Kong is an SAR until 2047.
The chess olympiad is a team tournament and the uzbek team won. The best chess players are american/chinese/indian generally and the best is Magnus Carlson who is Norwegian. The reason they are less represented is because it's not the pinnacle of chess, unlike the olympics being the greatest accomplishment of the top athletes
Russia has the most grandmasters by far.
You missed the fact that many athletes change nationalities as those countries pay them to represent them. Qatar pays Kenyan runners 1000 dollars a month and wayyyy more when they win in international competitions.
Brazil did very poorly, people here have been debating it here a lot. Everyone expected it to improve over Japan.
The US has a way higher GDP Per Capita than Australia. America ranks number 6 in GDP Per Capita. Slightly below Singapore
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Do you really have a clue... When you mention Northern Ireland you really mess up... You click on the Irish Team as if it was just Northern Ireland - and question why it is not part of the UK team.. Well maybe a little understanding of history would help - and maybe a little understanding of what that flag on the back of your chair really means to most of my country..
I am also Irish and was actually referring to the fact that Northern Irish athletes compete under your flag and not the one on my chair :)
@@ibx2catIreland done well in the Olympics we came 19th ahead of Brazil and other big countries
fiji came second in the rugby, it's the first time they've ever lost
Forgot to mention that chinese taipei doesn't exist and the olympics made it up to make ccp happy and still allow taiwan to compete
Russia.
wasn't welcome, understandably
they don't get to play, but Israel and Palestine do
Is trash
I love the Olympics and watching different sports
did he say curacao instead curaçao
The us actually has more Olympic medals in both rugby and football(soccer) than any other country
Belarus and Russia have sent like 17 and 15 people and some of them got medals and they don't even appear on the the medals list, its the AIN independent athletes. If you want to see were they got medals, you will have to go to the schedule and choose AIN
this dude asked why mainland china and taiwan arent one country bro should really research a little more next time
You should know on this channel that this is sarcasm haha
They are one country under the glorious KMT
Brisbane is a great choice for the Olympics. The state of Queensland where Brisbane is the capital produces twice as many Gold Medal athletes as the next Australian state.
Is that acne or did you get your face smashed in
Toycat you missed to do an analysis of the gold medal tally per capita which is what counts for this video. The Australian media did this to muck around. Australia was leading for a bit then we got taken over by the Netherlands as in last two days we stopped the gold medals while the Dutch had a late gold surge. Then, shock horror 😱😱New Zealand overtook us too 😄😄. Doing it this way means that you can crown the true world beaters of these games St Lucia and Domenica! 🏆🏆
Chinese Taipei is Taiwan, it is not a team from China.
USA is refusing to recognize chess as a sport and chess players as athletes.
Each time something debuts, it can only become permanent at least 8 years later. LA or Australia can include karate that debuted in Japan. Australia is first that can include breakdancing again etc.
What?
Plenty of sports are introduced and remain in place. Like Rugby and Golf, or surfing and climbing.
The real reason why chess isnt at the olympics is that the governing body hasnt applied to be an olympic sport. The IOC accept applications, it doesnt force sports to participate
And no, Karate cant be included at either Brisbane or LA because the governing body didnt apply. Also LA has already confirmed its sports
you need to know more about the geography of the olympics. Chinese Taipei is the olympic name for taiwan or the republic of china they are a seperate country
Chess used to be in the Olympics agss ago. I guess its just not as sporty as breaking or climbing a fake rock wall really fast.
There is the World Mind Games, which opperates kind of like an Olympic event but for more intellectual events. Chess, Shogi, Go, etc.
Why would Australia bid after the Commonwealth games?
Toycat you need to go to Fiji now to apologize for not honouring them and their silver medal. They are very good at Rugby 7s even if they missed out on the gold medal this year.
Comrade, the working class knows no countries. Workers of the world, unite!
Taiwan #1!
Pole dancing?
Taiwan is not a part of the Peoples Republic of China, and is forced by China and the IOC to compete under the name Chinese Taipei or be banned from the games.
2:26 It's not unlucky. France still has beef with GB after all these years lol.
The USA is splits its island & territorial citizens into separate categories like Puerto Rico
Next Olympics, Soviet Brittain will overtake Soviet Union by outcompeting because they're not existing any longer. Wait? How does that backtrack?
Your green screen made me think I had a crack in my screen :(
Kosovo also did really well, all our medals were in judo tho
Love my country Australia 🇦🇺 🇦🇺
Ubekistan Rocked is this olympics 🎉🎉🎉
Strange to say the person or country who took most medals are the best. Gold is always weighted better. Nr #1 medalist didn’t take a single gold. Yes, Olympic athlete and well done. But without medals you’re not the best
Canada slipped from 11th last time to 12th -- and as an American I love that so much.
Australia has a tiny population, they are pulling well above their weight. I thought france would push for third place. It's what the UK did the last couple of olympics, i guess they didn't put enough money into it, over the last couple of years.
It's still roughly 50% larger than the Netherlands in population.
It's not all about how wealthy you are, there's also how much money you're willing to spend. Switzerland performed much poorer than similarly sized, but significantly poorer Sweden. I presume that the Swiss government and sponsors just aren't as generous as the Swedish ones.
Weird comparison as Sweden is still a really wealthy country. You could have also compared it to Hungary
The United States can never live down the embarrassment of losing in the first Olympic skateboarding games, and not winning gold in any of them while being the inventors of the sport. The rest of the medals are trash
My friend... just because they invented the sport... doesn't mean they are the best at it.
The biggest example is the United Kingdom ...they invented football (soccer), cricket and rugby ... and the best countries in these sports are... Brazil, India and New Zealand.
Thumbnail: labeled Japan as red.
Though for such a small country, it is what they should be proud of.
122 milion people. Japan is densely populated rich country with high level of urban development and lack of rural areas.
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The EU is the country with the most medals, by far!
How is the EU a country?
@@timheesterbeek4597 Its internal states have to submit to its centrally designed laws. Also it has a common currency.
@@shsd4130 the European union is not a country it is a confederation of independent states for cooperation
@@charlemagne3969 like the US?
@@ItsZareh no the US is a federation, not a confederation.
Glory to the olympics
Wait, how did Andrew just pronounce Curaçao @ 9.34? Kure-ah-ko?
And does he really not know how to say the word "canoe"?
Probably a case of: 2nd channel, don’t care
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The UK did better than Tokyo
Only one medal more,but when it comes to gold medals it was way way less
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Northern Ireland is a part of the GB team. The full name is Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but for whatever reason they are usually just called Great Britain, probably because it is less of a mouthful for commentators.
Athletes in NI can choose to represent the UK or Ireland by choice.
The swimmer for Ireland is from NI
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 I know. I'm just saying NI is in the official long name of team GB.
No. NI belongs to Ireland.