From:  T <tberk@sbcglobal.net>
Date:  23 Aug 2004 06:59:48 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/rec.running
Subject:  

Re: how come greeks suck athletically?

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pien wrote:

> A11otrios  wrote:
> 
> 
>>Greece has 4 golds 1 silver 2 bronze with only a population of 11 
>>million. That's 0.36 gold per million people. To illustrate how that 
>>is actually good, the USA has 22 gold with a population of about 250 
>>million. That gives a ratio of about 0.09 golds per million. 
> 
> 
> We Dutchies: 3 gold, 6 silver, 8 bronze. 17 in a row, population: 16
> million. Not bad!
> 


Not bad at all. In other parts of the world that sounds like just one 
city.  :])

How many of the people complaining could step into the event and dust 
an Olympian?


TBerk