Monday 13 August 2012

This map of the world....

Has been changed to reflect the percentage of medals each country won at the Olympics in relation to its population and land size. Check out how fat NZ is!!

Wednesday 8 August 2012

Athlete comparisons....

Here is a website that shows you comparisons between today's athletes and their predecessors...
 
It is a New York Times (The New York Daily Paper) website and is quite biased in favour of America -
They have chosen three sports that the United States has been dominant in; they havent chosen Shot Put or Discus as Americans dont have as a good a record in those events. It is an American paper though - so they should be allowed to try and appeal to their audience. Or should they?

Here is a video taken from the site that shows how the Athletes would compare: