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Originally Posted by CleverCowboy
The Europeans have always done extremely well in the winter games no doubt about that, but the medal count is by country. Finland has only a fraction of the population of USA, Russia and China so the pool of athletes are smaller, so you really have to get behind those that you have. I think if the EU countries had their medals rolled up into a single total for the EU, they would take 1st in the medal count.
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Sometimes someone has suggested that the European Union should be one state (EU federalists), and that would certainly elevate “us” to number one,
but I don’t support that,
and that’s hardly happening.
When, for example, Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales even refuse to play football together, that is, under the British flag and so on.
National feeling most important!
The opening ceremony was spectacular. By the way, the United States has the most athletes in these games, 222.