Monday, August 12, 2024

Which College Won the Olympics? [ WSJ ]

The flava:
When the Paris Olympics ended on Sunday, the final medal table looked exactly the way that everyone
around the world expected. Team USA was once again at the top, followed by China, Great Britain, host France, Australia, Japan, Italy—and Stanford. 

Excusez-moi? 

When it comes to which countries bring home the most Olympic medals, there’s not much competition: The U.S. has dominated every Summer Games since 1996. This year, the Americans and Chinese wound up tied with 40 gold medals, but Team USA easily topped the overall medal count yet again. 

So we dove into the only fight more tribal than a global competition for athletic supremacy and looked at which colleges won the Olympics. 

And as it turns out, these intramurals were also a beatdown. 

Stanford took home 39 medals, more than double the number of any other U.S. school—and more than the Netherlands, South Korea, Germany and Canada. . . . 

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