THE REAL WINNER AT THE OLYMPICS IS … ARMENIA
Reuters
Thursday August 14 2008
BEIJING, Aug 14 (Reuters) – With a population of 1.3 billion some
might argue that China should be leading the medal tally at the
Olympics but the real winner is … Armenia.
The Los Angeles Times has compiled a tongue-in-cheek list of winning
nations based on medals per capita and six days into the Aug. 8-24
Games the former Soviet republic of Armenia, with population of nearly
3 million, leads with three bronze medals.
Georgia, with 4.6 million people, is in second place with two gold
medals — in men’s judo and Greco-Roman wrestling — and one bronze,
while at home the nation is at loggerheads with Russia over the
breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia.
Australia, with a population of 20.5 million, is standing firmly in
third place with 16 medals, including five gold medals, three of them
won by rising star of the pool Stephanie Rice.
Switzerland, with 7.6 million people, won a cluster of cycling medals
to ride into fourth place, with Roger Federer still in the hunt for
the men’s tennis title.
The alternative medal table by the Los Angeles Times had the Bahamas,
with a population of 300,000, winning the medal count at both the
Sydney Olympics in 2000 and the Athens Games in 2004.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
