Friday 23 July 2021

All Time Olympic Medal Table 2021

You can't help feel a bit sorry for Japan, they built a 68,000 capacity stadium at a cost of £1bn for the Olympics only to not be able to have any spectators in it so they built a very expensive place for pigeons to sit, which is nice.
Anyway, the 2020 Olympics are here in 2021 and so begins the running, jumping, swimming and throwing things and the Great British Athletes will be hoping to top the 67 medals they loaded into the cargo section of the plane back from Rio in 2016 but that still won't be enough to overhaul the Soviet Union to take second in the Overall Medal Table where we are currently 159 medals behind.
As the Soviet Union ceased to be in 1991 and will no longer be able to add to their tally, unless Putin has other ideas, we are on course to be on the shirt tails of the yanks by the end of the 2024 Olympics in Paris if we get a bit of a shake on, otherwise it will be 2028 in Los Angeles.
Another nation that no longer features in an Atlas printed after 1990 is East Germany who racked up an impressive 409 medals in only 5 Olympic Games and another country that does feature in Atlases but most people would be hard pushed to find is Hungary, who are a surprising 8th in the all time medal table.
Unfortunately, as Japan turned down my request to do the events according to Greenwich Mean Time, most will be going on when i am fast asleep so i won't get to see much of them this time but i am sure that a stadium that cost £1bn will have amazing acoustics's so the athletes swearing will ring out beautifully.

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