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I wonder if there's are some correlations to be found that might not jump out from these numbers, like medals won vs.

# distance from home country to hosting country

# similarity of hosting country's culture to home country

I'd also like to know how many medals were won by NCAA or American professional league athletes representing other countries (Usain Bolt, for example).

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While a lot of athletes from around the world attend college / compete in the US, Usain Bolt isn't a good example.

I seem to remember one of the commentators saying that a lot of the sprinters from Jamaica (and the Caribbean in general) are somewhat unique for having not come to the US.

Usain Bolt's wikipedia page doesn't have him spending any time in the US:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usain_Bolt

I seem to recall one of the NBC commentators saying that Bolt attended college in the U.S. and competed in the NCAA. I don't follow track at all, so I had no internal fact-check for knowing any better. My mistake if I was wrong.

He turned down the offer of a US scholarship to train in Jamaica.

The NYTimes has an interactive map on the website showing medal counts by country for each Olympic games.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympic...

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