Olympic Balls: America Wins Even When America Loses
THE Olympics. This is our year, Britain. We will top the medal tables and all will be right. But what medals are worth most: gold, silver, bronze, Anorak’s “Olympic Heroes” Medal Collection (100 to collect in a leatherette coin purse)?
As these charts show, knowing what medal is worth the most is hard, but we’d put our bet on all American medals being worth 1.34 Chinese medals.
GB medals are - as ever - worth their weight in gold, or steroids, which ever is the the dearer…
* The Olympics traditionally list winner in terms of gold medals won.
Posted: 15th, August 2008 | In: Back pages, Photojournalism Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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August 18th, 2008 at 9:41 am
sounds like a load of bollocks to me….
August 15th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
The Times yesterday told of an American swimmer who has postponed treatment for testicular cancer to compete at the Olympic Games. The article describes him as having a sackful of troubles. I think that puts it all in a nutshell.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I’d also wait a month before publishing the results - see how many are taken off competitors following certain ‘test’ results
August 15th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Anorak is leaving out the important bit; what is the exchange rate into zloty’s?