Winter Olympic Games 2002 - Jeux Olympiques d'hiver 2002
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Results on 24.02.2002

It is a nonsense to say that a country with more than 250'000'000 inhabitants gloriously obtains more medals than a country with 1'500'000 inhabitants! Here is a more rational ranking (inhabitants per medal): Il n'est pas raisonnable de proclamer qu'un pays de plus de 250'000'000 d'habitants obtient glorieusement plus de médailles qu'un pays de 1'500'000 d'habitants! Voici un classement plus rationnel (nombre d'habitants par médaille):

 

  Country Inhabitants
per Medal		 Inhabitants Medals
Total
1 Norway 183 000 4 400 000 24
2 Austria 475 000 7 600 000 16
3 Estonia 500 000 1 500 000 3
4 Switzerland 645 000 7 100 000 11
5 Finland 729 000 5 100 000 7
6 Croatia 1 200 000 4 800 000 4
7 Sweden 1 467 000 8 800 000 6
8 Canada 1 765 000 30 000 000 17
9 New Zealand 1 800 000 3 600 000 2
10 Netherlands 1 938 000 15 500 000 8
11 Slovenia 2 000 000 2 000 000 1
12 Germany 2 340 000 81 900 000 35
13 Bulgaria 2 800 000 8 400 000 3
14 Italy 4 833 000 58 000 000 12
15 Czech Republic 5 150 000 10 300 000 2
16 France 5 436 000 59 800 000 11
17 United States of America 7 871 000 267 600 000 34
18 Australia 9 150 000 18 300 000 2
19 Russian Federation 9 231 000 147 700 000 16
20 Belarus 10 300 000 10 300 000 1
21 Korea 11 375 000 45 500 000 4
22 Poland 19 300 000 38 600 000 2
23 Great Britain 19 600 000 58 800 000 3
24 Spain 19 650 000 39 300 000 2
25 Japan 62 900 000 125 800 000 2
26 China 154 500 000 1 236 000 000 8

There is no guarantee on the above numbers; you should:
- see official results in your favourite newspaper or here: http://www.saltlake2002.com/ or here: http://www.saltlake2002.com/r/2/med/tab_lg.htm
- see official Web site of the International Olympic committee here: http://www.olympic.org/
- see data on countries in your own atlas: they could be a little different for several reasons (date of census; including or not other territories; etc.).

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