Two interesting things about the Olympic Medal count among countries:
1. US and China dominated the (nominal) medal count, but when you look the (real) numbers by either per capita or per GDP, the success rate changes significantly:
Per Capita Medals Awarded
Source: Bloomberg View
Per GDP Medals Awarded
Source: Business Insider
2. Oh, and Pier Morgan is quite the shameless asshole.
Country with 1.2 billion people wildly celebrates 2 losing medals. How embarrassing is that? https://t.co/FYSBM7ErAf
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 24, 2016
The response to him is why Twitter was invented.
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