Last I even bothered to look; the US outpaced the rest of the world in gold metals. That got me to thinking if the US was the same size as the UK or Australia if the gold count would be the same? Playing Devil’s advocate, I had to examine nations that match the US in size or is larger, like Canada, and Russia, and that they hardly got on the leaderboard if at all, China was the 2nd place metal hauler and I wonder if it is because they have such a dense population. Which look me back to the US being so large and having such a large population if that was the reason (for lack of a better term) that the US seemed to be blessed with a high among of top athletes?

Topics: athletes, population, Olympics, size, abundance, winners, gold metals