Chart is from Power BI, numbers are calculated by taking the number of medals (gold, silver, or bronze) that a country won in a particular sport, and dividing it by the total number of medals (gold, silver, or bronze) awarded in that sport.
Each sport would have a value of 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze. A couple of examples: Germany won all silver and bronze medals in Skeleton, so they would be credited for 1 silver and 1 bronze. Sweden won 2 of 3 gold medals in Curling, so they would be credited with 0.67 gold.
Milhoose on
Detailed look at the top 3 under this format (Norway, United States, Germany)
Cool idea. I like it. How did you decide what gets grouped together as a single sport? The skiing events are different. There’s an argument that short and long track speed skating are the same sport (although I think they are different), but figure skating is definitely different. Likewise the skiing sports are very different from each other. Maybe split skiing into downhill, crosscountry, jumping and other? It’s a tough call to figure out how fine or coarse to make the groupings.
drc500free on
What are “sport federations”? Governing bodies?
NullhypothesisH0 on
Why isn’t Finland as competitive as its other Scandinavian neighbors?
HobbesMW on
I might retitle this as “% of medals per sport” or if you want something more editorial, it could be something like “Finding the jack of all trades” or like “evaluating excellence in every sport” or whatever, and then add a clearer description about the metric when people want to understand it more deeply.
![[OC] 2026 Olympic Medal Count with each sport given equal weight](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/81eb83xse5lg1-1024x581.png "[OC] 2026 Olympic Medal Count with each sport given equal weight")
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Data source: [https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/medals](https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/medals)
Chart is from Power BI, numbers are calculated by taking the number of medals (gold, silver, or bronze) that a country won in a particular sport, and dividing it by the total number of medals (gold, silver, or bronze) awarded in that sport.
Each sport would have a value of 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze. A couple of examples: Germany won all silver and bronze medals in Skeleton, so they would be credited for 1 silver and 1 bronze. Sweden won 2 of 3 gold medals in Curling, so they would be credited with 0.67 gold.
Detailed look at the top 3 under this format (Norway, United States, Germany)
https://preview.redd.it/0l6f4pkze5lg1.png?width=2110&format=png&auto=webp&s=92f0e066f9e7f493b7ad7c4e422263d8942188e3
A legend would greatly improve this data.
Cool idea. I like it. How did you decide what gets grouped together as a single sport? The skiing events are different. There’s an argument that short and long track speed skating are the same sport (although I think they are different), but figure skating is definitely different. Likewise the skiing sports are very different from each other. Maybe split skiing into downhill, crosscountry, jumping and other? It’s a tough call to figure out how fine or coarse to make the groupings.
What are “sport federations”? Governing bodies?
Why isn’t Finland as competitive as its other Scandinavian neighbors?
I might retitle this as “% of medals per sport” or if you want something more editorial, it could be something like “Finding the jack of all trades” or like “evaluating excellence in every sport” or whatever, and then add a clearer description about the metric when people want to understand it more deeply.