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Old 08-29-2004, 08:19 PM  
BRISK
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I'm aware that table was for the 2000 Olympics, but it's fairly consistent with this years Olympics results.

Countries like the US, China, and Russia win a lot of medals because they have large populations from which to draw athletes from.

On a per capita basis, they don't rank very high at all.
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