Talk:2000 Summer Olympics
- Four athletes from East Timor also marched in the parade of nations. Although the country-to-be had no NOC yet, they were allowed to compete under the Olympic Flag.
What is an NOC? user:Montrealais
- It's a National Olympic Committee, should put that in the text. Jeronimo
Mercès. -montrealais
The medal count on this page is based on the total number of medals. The IOC follows a different procedure: the number of gold medals is most important and if that's equal, they look at silver and bronze. Does somebody object if I change it?
IOC-link: [1] (a subpage of [2])
(Also, some numbers are wrong.) 80.126.123.127 13:32, 30 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Population figures
I've removed the pseudo-statistical pop. vs medal count info. It is completely irrelevant, inaccurate and meaningless. Mintguy (T)
- This has been added back again (with revised figures I note). This data is completely flawed. The criteria for gathering population statistics varies widely from country to country. The figure given by the UN is merely an estimate, for example India held their census in March of 2001 they came out with a figure of 1,027,015,247 persons. This was a rise of over 100 million people since the previous census. This was not because the population had actually increased by 100 million, but because they picked up a lot of people that had been missed in previous census. The data is therefore inaccurate and trying to use this as the basic for further statistical comparisons is flawed. The criteria for selection of athletes also varies widely, this includes, for example people from the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man who can compete for Team Great Britain, but their populations are not included the population of the United Kingdom. I'm sure there are other similar examples. Some citizens hold dual nationality and can compete for one other nation. This is true for some people living in Northern Ireland for example. Also many people living in Britain (or indeed any other country) are not allowed to compete for that nation for various reasons. Mintguy (T) 12:51, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Please do not remove the data again. If you think that other people should not see it then perhaps the best thing to do is bring it up at Wikipedia:Requests for comment.
- Bobblewik (talk) 17:31, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Please do not remove the data again. If you think that other people should not see it then perhaps the best thing to do is bring it up at Wikipedia:Requests for comment.
The population of a country is completely irrelevant to the mdeal count. Many of the medals, which will only count as one, on the medals table will have in fact been awarded to a larger number of people. For instance in gymnastics awards are given to the teams that come first second and third overall. In athletics, individuals are awarded medals for their participation in relay races, but this only counts as one medal. In all of the teams sports in the games a nation may receive only one medal even though there may be many people who actually contribute to that award. In the olympic football competition for example a football squad will usually consist of 23 competitors. Placing the population of a country next to the medal table is about as usful as placing the area of a country. It is totally misleading and flawed to try to work out the medals per number of population. you might as well try to work out medal per square mile. Mintguy (T) 19:23, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)