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Sunday, August 5, 2012

Olympics and the War with China

It is Sunday, so let's do something just for fun: Guess the Olympic Charts. read to the bottom for some additional charts.
As you know my "themes" are the need for term limits (honest government), USA immediate or short term intelligence as govenrment vs china's longer term intelligence, and that we are at war with china (USA v. China) but only the Chinese know about it because our government is blinded by avarice and the need to get re-elected.
The olympic results provide what I consider to be a fun look at the rise and fall of power as reflected by the olympics over the years, so a country like England may disappear even though they earned many medals because I only used data from the top teams each year so it's quicker.  This information just takes the top handfull of teams, leaves out many countries who were temporary visitors to this group but did not make it to the top 3 just to make the summary easier for me to put together.


The chart above shows graphically the rise in "Olympic" power of china relative to the US/Russia superpowers, past or present.  If one can extrapolate this chart to the USA transfer of its wealth, technology and manufacturing to china you can see where the USA failure to recognize a shift in priorities (from Russia to China) has eluded completely our leadership and the danger embodied in that failure.  But really, how can you tie olympic medals to our countries loss in war?    By the way, you can see below where Germany takes huge hits after they lose each of the major world wars as does Japan.
This is not scientific, of course.  It's just for fun on a quiet Sunday morning.
Here is the raw data, please excuse any mistakes and my appologies to the omitted olympic titles which I will try to supplement in the future:

year
1896
1900
1904
1906
1908
1912
1916
1920
1924
1928
1932 la
1936 ge
1948
1952
1956
1960
1964
1968
1972
1980
1984
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
greece
46
2
34
war
us
20
48
239
24
47
64
95
99
56
110
57
84
76
74
71
90
107
94
94
94
108
101
92
103
110
gb
31
2
24
145
41
44
36
22
17
26
24
20
91
21
24
24
20
47
china
28
28
54
50
59
63
100
germany
13
8
13
15
14
25
39
24
101
24
26
42
50
51
106
126
142
142
82
65
56
49
41
france
11
108
40
19
16
42
41
25
20
19
32
18
29
37
38
33
40
sweden
65
63
29
25
24
21
46
35
belgium
42
13
italy
25
16
20
27
31
21
25
36
27
35
34
32
japan
18
20
19
29
25
29
37
soviet union
71
103
96
99
195
132
132
112
63
88
92
72
australia
35
22
18
17
59
49
46

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