Who's the real winner of the Paris Olympics?

We think it's this guy??? Turkish Shooter, Yusuf Dikec

The Paris Olympics were excellent, particularly for meme-lovers, but who won the Olympics? Here's the leader medals table that we're used to seeing???

If success is measured by the total number of gold medals, the United States of America and People's Republic of China tie for top place.

If success is measured by the total number of medals won, the United States of America is the winner.

But what if?we stopped looking through a gold-tinted lens?

Different measures can tell a different story of success...

Five athletes won the most medals with 5 in total: French swimmer?Léon Marchand, American swimmer Torri Huske, Australian swimmer Mollie O'Callaghan, American swimmer Regan Smith and Australian swimmer Kaylee McKeown.

Léon Marchand was the athlete who won the most gold medals at the Paris Olympics with 4 in total.

Grenada won the most medals per capita (population size), with 2 medals won and a population of 112,000 people. Population per medal is 56,000. (source)

Read about Duncan and Parece's 'probability-adjusted national rankings' model... also deemed 'The Goldilocks Model' here.?

Or what if... we measured the Olympics by level of improvement based on previous performance?

Based on most improvement at Paris 2024, compared with Tokyo 2020, here are the leaderboards...

Improvement of total medals:

1. France +31

2. United States of America +13

3. Republic of Korea +12

4. Uzbekistan +8

5. Australia +7

6. Democratic People's Republic of Korea +6

7. Islamic Republic of Iran +5

Improvement of gold medals:

1. Republic of Korea +7

2. France +5

2. Uzbekistan +5

2. Netherlands +5

3. New Zealand +3

Instead of focusing on winning medals, what if we celebrated achieving personal bests as a team? Imagine the boundaries we could breakthrough.

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