Future Poltergeist

Back in 2014, I put together this post in which I figured out how the medal to population ratio played out during the Olympics.  I'm now doing the same thing for the Rio Olympics.  From the Sochi description: Anyway, the idea was to sort the medals by population of the country. Therefore smaller countries would get more credit per medal. This makes some sense. The larger the country, the easier it should be to find an elite individual. So I decided to crunch some numbers. Note: I'm going to figure medals per million people. My population numbers are from Wikipedia and I'm simply hoping that no one cared enough to mess with this info. Also, I rounded to the nearest million so there may be some messiness with the numbers. Also, I'm not doing the entire medal count. Just the top ten, with a few extras that are special. This time I'll do the top thirteen.  I have my reasons. 13. China - 19.66 medals per million people.  The Chinese did very well in this ...

How could I not click on a link called 'The 10 Best Books About the Olympics' ?  (Btw, I think I've read precisely zero of these.)

In the summer before the London Olympics started, I 'live-blogged' a coffee table book about past Olympics.  It was wildly successful.  The FP Gal even said she was enjoying it.  The posts are findable under the 'Olympics' label but I'm going to put them all in one place. 1896-1906 is here . 1908-1924 is here . 1928-1932 is here . 1936 and 1948 are here . 1952 and 1956 are here . 1960 and 1964 are here . 1968 and 1972 are here . 1976 and 1980 are here . 1984 and 1988 are here . 1992-1996 is here . 1998-2004 is here . These were a bunch of fun to put together.