From:  pien@xs4all.nl (pien)
Date:  23 Aug 2004 16:37:10 Hong Kong Time
Newsgroup:  news.alt119.net/rec.running
Subject:  

Re: how come greeks suck athletically?

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The Don  wrote:

> "A11otrios"  wrote in message
> news:MPG.1b931996c74a81c398ac0f@news.demon.co.uk...
> > Goat like pien@xs4all.nl  while grazing in <1gixz5i.1kusc0j1ll8c5mN%
> > pien@xs4all.nl>, made the following shapes:
> > > 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!
> >
> > Yes, Netherlands is the other country which does very good with a
> > small population. I think I mentioned this before too.
> >
> 
> What about Australia - population around 20 million...... do the math!!

yeah. aussies are great. but we already knew that :)
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pien
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