Top 10 Countries by Summer Olympic Medals (1896-2016)

This video will compare the top 10 countries by total Summer Olympic medals (gold, silver, and bronze) from 1896 to 2016. In the bottom right corner, a caption will show the olympic game, year, and hosting country. This video is made around the time the Tokyo 2021 Olympics will happen. Sit back and enjoy!
Datasources: Wikipedia, Olympics

[@RankingCharts]

This video will compare the top 10 countries by total Olympic medals (gold, silver, and bronze) from 1896 to 2016. Enjoy! *Note: this chart will only include medals won during the Summer Olympic Games.

[@connorlanglinais2751]

Yos

[@jonathanwieler8315]

We need the winter ones too

[@jonathanwieler8315]

Because I know then Canada would do better

[@connorlanglinais2751]

@@jonathanwieler8315 yeah personally I can’t wait for them to win silver in the next Winter Olympics for hockey

[@jonathanwieler8315]

@@connorlanglinais2751 at first I thought, why not gold? But then I realized silver is the highest

[@notmattified4882]

The Soviet Union's still doing great today.

[@texmex_tacos]

Just it doesn’t have any countries, so Soviet Union’s still alive

[@stevengalloway8052]

Well, sure, since their athletes were so doped up... 😆

[@schwarzer0se463]

Same goes for East Germany 😂

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

@@stevengalloway8052 so were American.

[@stevengalloway8052]

@@ayodejiolowokere1076 - And Americans caught and punished them, too. They didn't get to keep their medals, and lost their endorsements, enduring shame and humiliation. (Lance Armstrong) Haven't heard about ex-Soviets and East Germans giving back THEIR medals. Have you? 🤨

[@Howlingburd19]

When people say Americans are fat, just bring up the Olympics xD

[@soubhik9314]

​@@arthurchicagoyour country what? 😂

[@gabrielesantucci6189]

It's true...americans are a bunch of fat people! Super fat indeed!!!!! Forget the olympics...you are really too fat, the most obese in the world !!! I'm sorry but it's the hard truth!!!😎🇮🇹

[@Jayfromthe202]

They can’t beat us so they use goofy insults

[@Howlingburd19]

@@Jayfromthe202 yessir! I don’t care what anyone says I will always be proud to live in the strongest country in the world with the best athletes and dominance in popular culture 🇺🇸

[@San_478]

​​​@@Jayfromthe202 Yes sirrr !! Even tho I ain't American But I admire USA a lot Bro USA even Legit dominates in SPORTS look at the Current stats USA has like almost 3k medals 2985 Now look at 2nd place Germany has 1083 .. Almost 3x than the 2nd place Bruh Its not even being First in the list .. Its horribly dominating the list 💀😂😂

[@skypinkk]

Q: How to stop USA from getting medals? A: You just have to wait until USSR host the game again

[@karoldettlaff5345]

No, you just have to stop USA from using doping

[@zeqirzeqiri1216]

You just have to wait for the ussr to fall

[@helendefensor5057]

@@zeqirzeqiri1216 USSR is already gone/collapsed almost 3 decades ago.

[@helendefensor5057]

@@karoldettlaff5345 you don't know what you are talking...

[@DT-yr4tx]

@@karoldettlaff5345 firstly,stop your country of using dope and then you can talk about the others.

[@gooseintheshell1290]

Chad Hungary in the top 10 alongside superpowers

[@aboi9865]

There is no Chad

[@mr.waffentrager4400]

@@jack-ln9nu chad is a country he meant

[@LittleAddu]

@@aboi9865 Chad Means MadLad

[@qj4ib]

Sweden too with similar population.

[@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n]

@@qj4ib and aus and norway

[@thanos8948]

North Korea has double the number of India's olympic medals lmao.

[@warwolf6862]

Well the threat of not getting a medal is probably execution...

[@ulikemyname6744]

India is not a "sporty" nation and there is nothing wrong in that 😉😉

[@thanos8948]

@@ulikemyname6744 a wannabe superpower that isn't into athleticism and sports? lol do you guys just play a single sport?

[@ulikemyname6744]

@@thanos8948 I'm not Indian but there is nothing wrong in not being large in sports. You can be a powerful nation even if you don't like sports

[@redpipola]

@@warwolf6862 source?

[@DarjeelingEnjoyer]

I love how so many people are whining like children because the US is actually doing the best at a specific thing

[@N.A525]

And hardly any shout-outs. It’s lonely at the top 😆

[@dereenaldoambun9158]

@@N.A525 Truly suffering from success...😔

[@xhansxxx]

Divide the medals by the number of inhabitants, the USA has 332 million inhabitants, while a small country like the Netherlands with 17.5 million inhabitants has won many more medals in proportion.

[@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n]

usa - swimming, shooting, gymnastics, athletics, cycling, basketball, alpine skiing japan - speed skating, gymnastics australia - swimming, canoeing, cycling, equestrian france - Biathlon, fencing, judo, swimming brazil - gymnastics sweden - Cross-country skiing, shooting, swimming, Canoeing, alpine skiing romania - gymnastics, canoeing, rowing Jamaica - athletics belgium and s korea - archery Britain - cycling, equestrian, gymnastics, rowing, swimming Hungary - Canoeing, fencing, swimming, gymnastics

[@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n]

@@N.A525 Allyson Felix - athletics - 11 medals s biles - gymnastics - 11 medals carl osburn - 11 medals katie ledecky - 14 medals , ryan lochte - 12 medals , Michael Phelps - 28 medals etc best in north america and the world

[@asliceofcheese7888]

Damn, Hungary is doing really well considering its small population and small GDP. Sweden aswell, tho economically speaking, they are far more well-off than Hungary.

[@dabomb2564]

I dont see what GDP has to do with Olympic medals but ok

[@mongoldiscipline]

Cuz Hungarian people are descendants of Hun people ( East Asian group )

[@madsbuhris]

@springsod poor? When, not according to GDP per capita.

[@user-rs9py9yr1r]

how did you find connection between GDP and Olympic medals? Japan etc I can't see it. if you look the all time football rankings Sweden and Hungary are in the top 10 too

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

Sweden, Ukraine, Japan, south Korea, Greece, Serbia, Australia, are good too

[@connorlanglinais2751]

America did the thing again

[@oufc90]

Great Britain is better per capita

[@josusenco]

The Netherlands are better per capita compared woth UK and Us. I think Australia will lead when it comes down to this.

[@oufc90]

@@josusenco yes that’s maybe true. I was just saying GB better than US when it comes to that

[@Michiganian8]

😆🇺🇸🎤

[@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n]

@@oufc90 Allyson Felix - athletics - 11 medals s biles - gymnastics - 11 medals carl osburn - 11 medals katie ledecky - 14 medals , ryan lochte - 12 medals , Michael Phelps - 28 medals etc best in north america and the world GB - jason kenny - cycling 9 medals duncan scott - swimming - 8 medals Charlotte Dujardin - equestrian - 6 medals Steve Redgrave - rowing 6 medals

[@exentr]

Hungary is doing very well. I had a coworker from Hungary in the late 90's. His wife were dying from cancer. He felt lonely. He invited me to party with him. Just him and me. We drank moonshine. He told me that he was a home reserve for the hungarian ping pong team in Barcelona 1992. He had an el-guitar mod 60's. Hell he could play the guitar. He was a funny guy too. I asked why he invited me exactly to party with him. He said you are from the same district as my wife. Moonshine is part of your culture. I knew you could drink moonshine, he said. Which is true.

[@joebartles3986]

Great to see that the Soviets are still hanging in there.

[@N.A525]

Their independent now.

[@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n]

gymnastics

[@cxa340]

I would combine the counts for East and West Germany back into Germany - we can argue about the Soviet versus Russia counts as well

[@Ajb.bgr_]

No we can't argue because in ussr there were athletes from different S.R. Like Ukraine or lithuania.

[@Genevasplaytime]

Uh no East germany were all on drugs like the soviets

[@jomo3564]

Except Ukraine was part of Russia even before the birth of USSR. (No I'm not Russian)

[@freddy4603]

@@jomo3564 sadly, yes - we were occupied by the Russian Empire and then the Soviet Union

[@philippbock3444]

@@Genevasplaytime and like the americans

[@blondjon]

My two takeaways: Finland has an amazing medal count for a country of barely 5 million people 'Merica is #1 (almost always)

[@yeetingat100subs9]

Same with sweden, hungary as well. Pretty sure those are the 3 countries with most summer olympics medals per capita (which is a more fair way to compare it)

[@blondjon]

@@arthurchicago why isn't the country with the highest population on top then? Use logic.

[@legendslog3911]

​@@blondjoncrap logic America and most of the European countries took the lead in medal count during 20th century India was under colonial looters till 1947, and when they left India, it was one of the poorest nation in the world and there was no infrastructure to support sport activities, our priority was to feed our big population, provide education and secure our borders from Pakistan and China, Also, America and Europe have better sports infrastructure

[@blondjon]

@@legendslog3911 so my point still stands. What I said is true. Sorry you are triggered by it 😘

[@legendslog3911]

@@blondjon I'm not triggered by it, just wondering about your ignorance

[@ryufireblade]

The USA is amazing! You love to see it! Here's to many more years at the top!

[@N.A525]

This isn’t mentioned enough. IT’s appreciative 👍🏽

[@oufc90]

Great Britain is better per capita

[@whoishim2998]

⁠@@oufc90Lol ok

[@charlesbrown4483]

@@josusenco Sports =/= socioeconomics, per capita is a pretty meaningless measure in regard to olympic medal count. By that logic, China and India are the worst sporting nations of all time. But that's clearly not true, it's just not how things work, there's clearly a plateau in the relation between population and medals. Beyond that, the most popular sport in America is American football and it's not even close, it's the most popular sport here by a wide margin. It's sport which doesn't exist in the Olympics, and a sport wherein the vast majority of our best male athletes compete. Currently, there are 1,696 players in the NFL. That is 1,696 world class athletes who could've absolutely represented us in other(olympic) sports if they hadn't chosen football. But it's not just NFL players, there are tens of thousands of college football players(every year) who dedicated their sport lives to football specifically. Thousands of those athletes could've also competed in other sports at an Olympic level. So I know the world hates us for calling it "football," but you should probably just be happy that we like it so much. Because if we didn't then all those thousands of world class athletes would instead be competing in other sports and thus we'd get a lot more Olympic medals than we already do.

[@josusenco]

@@charlesbrown4483 demographics is not your thing i see. A lot of " yankee-wisdom" here. Too many words and none of them make sense.That BS story about " Football" ( rugby for sissies) is hilarious!! Have some real research the next time you make an attempt to look smart!

[@GRIMMusic]

Well, the US had Forrest Gump! 😂

[@hungarianhistoryiii.1359]

Sweden and Hungary in top 10 !

[@MrNorberg]

Yes, let's gooo! :3

[@lucas_haruo]

Suggestion: World population (1500-1900)

[@Mautiks]

40,000 BCE - 2021 *

[@nmgscp]

If the author does like in this video, it presents a population of something like 100 billion people in 2021 (accumulated)

[@anton_398]

Where is 1450 million population India. 😁

[@Dingusdoofus]

1936 Summer Olympics: France: Gets a medal Germany: Thousands of Panzers have accidentally parked in Paris.

[@mbathroom1]

top 10 countries by SUMMER olympic medals

[@charlesbrown4483]

In Winter Olympics America would still be 4th overall when including NOCs, 2nd overall when excluding NOCs, behind only Norway which makes sense.

[@fulcrum6008]

Once again, W 🇺🇸

[@oufc90]

Great Britain is better per capita

[@walker68175]

Murica: *S T O N K S*

[@ttd633]

When addressing America you should start with sir.

[@scanida5070]

1:50 Me, a German: **Happiness Noises** **Notices it‘s the olympics of 1972** Me: *F O C K*

[@tw0ey3dm4n]

Im not american.. but it has to be said... the US is the best at most worldly things because of their diversity. And I don't mean just race... I mean, their innovations, way of thinking... that is to say their outside of the box thinking and their evolution/migration from Europe to Americas gave their genes a big boost. E.g. in the UK they love to have constant meetings without any end result and there is always this pyramid of hierarchy to follow which can slow things down and cut off innovation, but in the US they just want to get things done and get the best ideas regardless who it comes from. In Asia, there is a lot of emphasis on respect/honor and doing things the right way based on traditions or culture. Out of all nations until mid 2010s... US has been ahead on most things... but Now... it seems like the US has completely lost the ball and the world is up for grabs once more again

[@N.A525]

This machine has been going since 1904. A country can’t repeat its ways. We are different in what we do & it reflects it.

[@brythonicman3267]

Yet per head of population, the UK out performs the USA easily! Just read up on the stats....

[@95mushroom]

@@brythonicman3267 Because the entries are capped for events. Bermuda pop. is 70k, and they have 1 medal. China would have to win like 23,000 medals to equal that, which is more then all medals, ever, combined. If you're using per population, and UK is the base, then UK gets 1 basketball entry, and the US would get 5 teams entered. Sound fair now?

[@brythonicman3267]

@@95mushroom I never it was unfair, but even taking the caps per event into account, Britain still outperforms the US per head of population. It also outperforms most other countries but not all i.e. New Zealand who outperform nearly all countries, as an example Ireland who have the same population as NZ. Maybe it's something to do with the gene stock 😉

[@oufc90]

Great Britain is better per capita

[@WildBoy200Yaboi]

USA: I got do many medals, nobody can beat me USSR: hold my unwinned medals

[@diollinebranderson6553]

I like how when the US and USSR host the Olympics, they automatically stop gaining medals

[@charlesbrown4483]

Hey they did it to us first, we just returned the favor.

[@mshenterprises8007]

Hear comes china, after more than 100 years of not in the picture

[@pelsnar6251]

I dont remember east Germany in 2004

[@anon-san2830]

GOD DAMN USA JUST LET ME READ OTHERS FOR ONCE!

[@hltco920]

Congratulations UK 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@pibbo3850]

after 1990, East and West Germany were reunited. That s why the medals should be summed up after 1990

[@quenting839]

Yes and if we sum East and West Germany medals, the result is 1024 so Germany would be 2nd.

[@elzorro8787]

Australia does amazing for its population.

[@elmothemilkman99]

Im from australia and the ppl here are hella laid back, the aussies dont study all they do is play sports their entire life so i guess the chart makes sense

[@tw0ey3dm4n]

Competitive natural sporty lot

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

​@@elmothemilkman99amd they have six wins in 🏏 🏆

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

I would like to see top 20

[@szaboattila844]

Unfortunately, there is a serious inadvertence in the ranking of medals regarding the SUMMER OLYMPICS (!!!), respectively Sweden would be "only" in 12th place in this ranking (Sweden would occupy 8th place in the case of the ranking of TOTAL medals by combining the Summer Olympics with the Olympics of winter). The one damaged from the present "top ten medal ranking" is the representative of Australia, which takes the place of Sweden. And between the 4th and the 10th place there are some errors, the official order would be slightly different between the 10 in the list (see the link with the official ranking: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table

[@zsoltigaal1936]

Hungary 💪💪🙏🤝

[@nmgscp]

Good luck to East German athletes in the 2021 Olympics

[@mrcool2107]

Never new east Germany was there after 90s

[@rabiin3921]

Then china said Hello

[@brythonicman3267]

UK punching well above its weight with one fifth the population of the USA, less than half the population of Russia and a small fraction of China.

[@Edison.shanghai]

how about India?

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

Australia and Sweden and Norway epic

[@AW-zk5qb]

There is a restriction in athletes per country in many sports that disadvantages the US. I guarantee that if the 50 US states were separate countries in the Olympics, they would win way more overall medal combined than they do as the US because of this. Not to mention that there is a limited amount of events which makes it impossible for a nation like the US to win per capita. And in say soccer, Uruguay or Netherlands are probably the best per capita but Brazil is considered the best all time because they win the most. The US is the most successful sports nation in the world (in terms of Olympic, world championship and major results), and is all time (most top players, most successful in olympics, major or world championship in the sport all time) the best in baseball, basketball, track and field, swimming, lacrosse, beach volleyball, figure skating, tennis, golf, boxing, diving, shooting, rowing, snowboarding etc and is all time top 5 in ice hockey, wrestling, gymnastics, volleyball, speed skating, alpine skiing, bobsleigh, equestrian, sailing, cycling, weightlifting, archery etc. No nation comes remotely close to the US in overall sporting achievements

[@brythonicman3267]

@@AW-zk5qb Your stats don't add up! Yes the USA does very well, but only due to its 338 million population compared to other highly developed nations. You said that if every state in the US were separate countries they would win way more overall medals combined, yes they would but so would other highly developed countries that have equally sophisticated infrastructures if they were broken up. If Britain's population of 68 million was broken down into say 4 regions competing individually (17 million) it would be exactly the same scenario and probably still out preform the USA over all on medals per head of population and Britain's hypothetical 4 teams would still out perform most of the 50 states based on past performance also, maybe with the exception of California which has well over half of Britain's entire population . Population USA 337 million - Population UK 68 million 20% the population of USA. All time medals: USA 1,061 Gold total medals 2,629 Team GB 284 Gold total medals 916 Then you look at Australia and New Zealand, they have done better still.

[@charlesbrown4483]

In America most of our best male athletes compete in American football. Currently there are 1,696 NFL players and around 20,000 divison 1 college football players. The sport eats up most of our best talent. If these guys competed in Olympic sports instead of football, we would have many, many more medals than we do now.

[@Toxic_Man_]

1956 - 1988 In just 32 years USSR 😮😮😮 I didn’t know, although I’m from Kazakhstan 😮😮😮 They missed 1984

[@robertmwoodley1502]

Australia has done well and all this graph shows is the Transatlantic locations until well into the era of cheap modern travel. Our athletes were self-funded and amateurs, so had to work like everyone else to save for a fare. Since the era of state sponsored professional athletes we have risen to the top ten, and have been to every summer games, one of only four countries to do so. Our first two gold in 1896 were won by Edwin Flack, a gent on holiday in the UK who heard about the Games and entered!!! In 1912 the first two women Fanny Durack and Mina Wylie to win gold and silver in swimming were both Australian.

[@geopolitics1886]

Soviet union won that medals in a span of 40 years while USA 121 years. Had the soviet union been given healthy competition they would have topped the chart.

[@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv]

Hungary and Denmark must have a lot of famous medalists

[@MurderMostFowl]

Why didn’t the Soviet Union Change to Russia?

[@jjmantecon628]

Most likely because USSR was comprised of many different nations, thus adding Ukrainian, Belorussian, and other’s metal counts towards Russia if it changed.

[@ilyas80s65]

Bc USSR medals are counted for USSR not Russia, Russia have it own count

[@pst702]

@@jjmantecon628 your answer is the best explanation...yes, MANY countries like Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia,Estonia, etc. contributed to the Soviet Union...after 1991, these became separate countries and Russia is a different category all by themselves rather than having a multitude of nations oppressed to perform for the " glory of the motherland " 🤣🤣🤣...in the end the Evil Empire meet their demise....bankruptcy followed by countries gaining their independence.....goodbye Comrade Mfers 🤣🤣🤣

[@sheripeterson7788]

You missed SLC and other cities when it changed to every 2 years.

[@ditkacigar89ify]

Everyone else is competing for 2nd 🇺🇸

[@beautifulgirl2]

Do you make this by Winter Olympic Medals, please?

[@mrxsatyr8459]

I’m beginning to see a pattern here

[@N.A525]

😆

[@CJ-ft9yo]

Australia only started to get in the 10 ten in the seventies

[@soofjandepr0]

When will you do one for the Winter Olympics?

[@RankingCharts]

In 2022.

[@1985vaio]

Can't wait for Norway to be on top hehe

[@natedog2304]

Alternative title: How to piss off almost 70,000 people.

[@ラーメン-k4d]

0:41 この曲何？

[@st0ox]

And I always thought Germany was on the second place.

[@schwarzer0se463]

This video differentiates between East and west Germany, which doesn’t really make sense anymore. Germany should be 2nd or 3rd depending on what medals you are counting for Russia.

[@st0ox]

@@schwarzer0se463 yes, if you count all former Soviet territories then Russia is clearly second.

[@nightwish1000]

it is, this chart is completely biased. only the USA has more gold medals than Germany and in total germany is third when it comes to summer games.

[@st0ox]

@Jackson Spieth in hard Power terms yes, but in soft power terms nothing can compete in Europe with Germany and the UK lost a lot of soft power during brexit.

[@st0ox]

@Jackson Spieth the UK had a very advantageous position with the special US relationship it brought to the EU and also with its position in the common wealth. The UK was always able to gain influence through this triangle, because they could always tell the EU, we can talk with the US or a country from the common wealth and vice versa. Now this triangle became a line with much less area so to speak. And don't get me wrong, hard power is nice, but since the nuclear age I am not sure how much conflicts will really be resolved with hard power in the future. As a German I am very sad the Britain left the EU, because in my point of view we were stronger together against some much bigger counties like China.

[@michellebrown4903]

Now that is a statistic that makes me proud to be a Brit. From the " Chariots Of Fire " generation, to the present day. Rarely out of the top four. Now that the swivel eyed loons are in charge, l wonder what the future holds?

[@jackryan702]

Swivel-eyed loons...?

[@michellebrown4903]

@@jackryan702 the tin foil hat brigade. Brexiteers.....

[@jackryan702]

@@michellebrown4903 ah I see now

[@goosenuggets9693]

​@@michellebrown4903 You clearly know very little about Geopolitics if you think Brexit is all about "tin foil" hats.

[@michellebrown4903]

@@goosenuggets9693 l do know that the country has been harmed by this.

[@danrhone9756]

USA is the best at every aspects when it comes down to competing at Olympic events both summer and winter. USA USA USA🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤘🤘🤘👍👍👍

[@捍卫民族主义_抵制凯]

The music is so funny!

[@tusharsharma310]

Germany would rank 2nd if they add west and east germany medals

[@godurmumishot]

Are you sure you get the chat right? Soviet Union stays on chart after 1991?

[@RankingCharts]

Good question. Unlike GDP, where figures are tallied yearly, the Olympic medals a nation receives doesn’t disappear when it collapses. This is why the bar for the Soviet Union and East Germany stays even after their end in 1991 and 1990 respectively.

[@n0thydr071]

Isn't this the winter Olympics? Cus the miracle on ice was an Olympic hockey game in 1980

[@donderstorm1845]

basically a graph of countries that participated in the olympics the longest

[@nxtlvlnlkr5312]

please do winter

[@konradbiro2479]

Hungary 10th❤❤❤

[@xxx6555]

Totally useless ranking. The total amount means nothing as the Olympic games 100 years ago are different from today's in any sense of the term. You should do a comparison for each of the Olympic games.

[@AW-zk5qb]

And USA has won the overall medal count in the last 7 Summer Olympics and the Gold Medal count in 6 of the last 7 Summer Olympics, and does so with a restriction on athletes it can send. If the 50 US states were all separate countries, the amount of athletes they'd send combined and medals they'd win combined would skyrocket

[@Quinceps]

So the Soviet Union has won the most in proportion to the number of "caps".

[@khanhngochoang2528]

Soviet Union ._. Top 2, are they still top 2 now ?

[@Toxic_Man_]

Yes, they achieved all this in just 32 years! Can you imagine? I was never so surprised by life! 😮😮

[@charlesbrown4483]

@@Toxic_Man_ Well yeah all their athletes were(and still are in Russia specifically) juiced like crazy lol

[@IqbalKhan-eg9fc]

Soviet Union was the best in summer olympics and winter Olympics they were most dominant Team in World

[@anathielvanrycanter7696]

Now divide these numbers by the country's population 😉

[@Apagnan-f5e]

Je ne vois pas l'intérêt

[@krl97a]

Invalid since rules artificially cap how many athletes nations can send, plus there's a finite number of events. It'd be as meaningless as tracking goals per capita in a game and concluding Brazilians suck at soccer because they only beat Honduras 4-1 instead of 40-1. It's still 11 v 11 on the field and there's a time limit. Per capita comparisons are for open ended stats like GDP, not constrained ones.

[@anathielvanrycanter7696]

@@krl97a calculating medals per capita might be in favour of the smaller countries, true, but simply counting them definitely favours the big ones. Besides it's relatively rare that one nation claims multiple medals in a single event, so sending more athletes wouldn't necessarily mean a significant increase in medals won.

[@krl97a]

@@anathielvanrycanter7696 The difference is that medal tables are counting something tangible. "Fair" or not, those medals really exist and represent events that really happened. By contrast per capita comparisons are artificial constructs that ignore Olympic rules and nature, and have no connection to reality. They're fallacious and meaningless. And yes the cap on athletes each nation can send will logically impact medals. We can see the likely empirical impact with split German teams going from a combined 142 medals in 1988 to 82 with a unified team in 1992. That may be as close to a controlled experiment as we can get. Most events don't have a slam dunk favorite and even ones that do sometimes don't turn out as expected, like McKayla Maroney on the vault in 2012 or the Australian relay team last night. The Tunisian guy who barely qualified for the final but won gold a few days ago may be an extreme example, but non-favorites winning medals is very common. Simply being at the Olympics is a big part of having a chance. That's why rules capping nations' team size exist, or else large nations that are also athletic power houses culturally and societally like the US would be even more dominant. If each US state was allowed to field its own team then America's medals would skyrocket, like Germanys but even more so.

[@anathielvanrycanter7696]

@@krl97a I merely suggested that a per capita chart might be interesting and to that I keep. Since there are like factors of 30 or even more between the populations of some of the mentioned countries, and it seems unlikely that capping the number of athletes sent can make up for a difference that big. And about unified Germany: East Germany was a socialist country with a state-driven sport powerhouse, a system which changed to match the western standards: this might as well contribute to the decline in the total medal count of Germany.

[@philippbock3444]

Since East and West Germany are unified to one Germany again you have to sum up the medals for one German team. Germany would be on second place with around 1400 medals

[@mixtecjaguar9824]

Soviet Union in 2000?

[@erickrobertson7089]

The US, along with 2 other countries, one being Russia (not the Soviet Union), do not support their Olympic teams.

[@ilyas80s65]

You don't understand Soviet Union medals aint counted as Russian ones Russian ones are Russians not Soviets so until this day USSR is the 2nd country to have the most medals even I'd this country doesn't exist anymore.

[@alexstorm2749]

@@ilyas80s65 Russia is the only official successor of the USSR. Wake up to reality!

[@inigobantok1579]

@@alexstorm2749 so we're gonna forget the 14 other republics that made up the Soviet Union that's why Ukrainians belurussians kazakhs Georgians and Baltic peoples don't want anything to do with Russians anymore they are like the england of Britain

[@Sv0boda]

@@inigobantok1579 🤦‍♀️

[@kkpenney444]

wtf are you talking about?

[@historymatters8991]

I love America. Is it perfect? Definitely not. Does it have a bad moments in history like every other country? Definitely. But we are the most diverse and given the most people opportunities than any other country.

[@brythonicman3267]

Not too sure about that bud, Google the US based CATO Institute rankings: The USA comes out in 17th place joint with the UK on the freedom based index. Far more chance if you're from a poor background to make it big if you're from Ireland, Sweden or New Zealand, but even your neighbours Canada some out higher for equal opportunities.

[@oufc90]

Great Britain is better per capita

[@Horizontal77]

Hungary YES!

[@alexhard4496]

USSR was in 9 games, standing first in 7 of them

[@NoName-hg6cc]

🇮🇹 did well

[@Vishal-g1w]

AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺💖

[@alexanderdimov7329]

Трампу надо не америку делать снова великой, а советский союз...

[@RHSilvaXD]

Brazil, the best country of south america 💛💚💙

[@gorlenkosergej5538]

UdSSR 🥇 NR 1 !

[@arthax_17]

It seems like hungary

[@CMSisFrosty]

A lot of copium in the comments

[@rajivmurkejee7498]

These comparisons need so many caveats and qualifications . In reality all a country can do is be more successful than countries of less population and wealth

[@goosenuggets9693]

That made no sense "Murkejee".

[@GS-ku3cj]

@@goosenuggets9693 he’s basically saying that the richer and larger countries do the best

[@ianneill1400]

Minus the drug assisted??!!

[@АндрейМашкин-м2н]

Вместо СССР должна была появиться РФ, нормы международного права данный ролик не отображает, очень глупо, смысл оставлять было страну, которой фактически уже нет.

[@charlesbrown4483]

Russia and former soviet countries cheat too much, they shouldn't count. All your athletes use drugs.

[@КоммунистДваноль]

Soviet union💪💪💪

[@hacienda2490]

Is dead.

[@rimurutempest5377]

@@hacienda2490 Is alive in our hearts*

[@hacienda2490]

@@rimurutempest5377 Lol, nice consultation prize.

[@aeuoy8038]

80 and 84 autobalance)

[@padinspi11]

Damn east germany

[@stavroshadjiyiannis6283]

The USSR only took part in 9 Olympics. It was a nightmare & humiliation for its rivals.

[@charlesbrown4483]

They cheated constantly though lol.

[@tiredboss4209]

we don't need this data to prove india's great! we just don't care this "big sports party‘’~ indian just enjoy the cricket, no one can beat us in cricket match~ if we interest about the olympic, we'll give the world big surprise! 🗯🗯🗯

[@Michiganian8]

Sometimes too much pride can be a bit….

[@FROST-if9hp]

Australia with 26m population: are you sure about that?

[@szaboattila844]

Unfortunately, there is a serious inadvertence in the ranking of medals regarding the SUMMER OLYMPICS (!!!), respectively Sweden would be "only" in 12th place in this ranking (Sweden would occupy 8th place in the case of the ranking of TOTAL medals by combining the Summer Olympics with the Olympics of winter). The one damaged from the present "top ten medal ranking" is the representative of Australia, which takes the place of Sweden. And between the 4th and the 10th place there are some errors, the official order would be slightly different between the 10 in the list (see the link with the official ranking: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table

[@manukeo5498]

1900... USA Begin to use something...

[@haechiwr]

As if the soviets didn’t lmao

[@charlesbrown4483]

You can look up athletes who've popped for PEDs, in all pro sports, all over the world. There's even a specific wiki page for it. The vast majority of them are Russian/former soviets.

[@jamesclarkmaxwell-v2n]

the number of people wish olympics started in 1846 👇

[@SivaGod]

苏联👏

[@Icetea-2000]

Total medals are less relevant than the quality if medals. Also it doesn’t combine certain countries that are definitely containing the exact same people after a change as before, notably Germany, which should have west and east german medals combined. Same with Russia, yes, the soviet union did have athletes outside russian borders, then you could just count them to those modern countries instead and leave the soviet russians as russians (even though they did participate under the same flag but it gets difficult otherwise) You definitely can’t just exclude all east german and soviet olympic achievements from the rest of russia and germany, that’s unfair when countries like the US are counted unchanged since 1896 Thus, this list is a failure to me

[@charlesbrown4483]

"Include the cheaters so America isn't number one!!!"

[@독자적인이름]

why east ger more than west...?

[@krl97a]

Insane cheating, from cutting edge doping to putting people with male chromosomes into women's events. The communist government orchestrated it all and generally put serious resources into building an athletics machine for propaganda purposes, like the USSR did and China is now.

[@SaveOurDisabilityFund]

How about one showing the developed countries with the most worker's rights. Doubt America would even make it on the list today.

[@ryufireblade]

Worker rights are way better in the US than many places like China lol. What's your point?

[@inigobantok1579]

Why you ranking workers rights in an Olympic video salty much

[@hacienda2490]

+SmokeStack Wtf are you talking about? The US would still be near the top. Lmao, salty CCP bot.

[@tillytilford2158]

The Soviet Union hasn’t been around for 30+ years and still second! Doping clearly works wonders 😂😂😂

[@karoldettlaff5345]

For USA it works even better 😅😅😅

[@Sancho_Merka]

Everything is much cooler. First performance of USSR in Olympic Games was in 1952. So, there was only 9 games, where USSR participated!

[@Square-Watermelon]

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[@fanyang8533]

China🙌🙌🙌

[@oufc90]

Great Britain is better per capita

[@Diddykong8775]

Excuses for sucking.

[@huangzb8060]

Where is the superpower, India???

[@executioner8096]

😅

[@N.A525]

👍🏽

[@Michiganian8]

Wooo who said that

[@anton_398]

India 0

[@qualityman1965]

Notice how India with a billion and a half is not on the list and never will be.

[@kaibrattan3568]

"never will be"? Why do you say that?

[@qualityman1965]

@@kaibrattan3568 why? They have had 49 years to do it. They can't. India has no economy to expand. They can't support their people let alone have anything to sell to the world. Aside from cheap labour in some low wage industries, and an abundance of cheap labour, they have nothing. Sorry but that's the truth.

[@kaibrattan3568]

@@qualityman1965 China was in a similar spot only 20 years ago. Nations change, economies grow. To say India will never be on the top ten betrays a lack of imagination.

[@thanos8948]

@@kaibrattan3568 indian government cant be compared to china's fast effective government

[@AlexS-vv8rl]

@@kaibrattan3568 well, 20 years ago, China won 28 golds, 16 silvers and 15 bronzes in Sydney, which is higher than all medals India won in their entire Olympics history combined. And China only came to participate in olympics since 1984, I don’t see India will catch up with China or follows China’s path in the near future.