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Nice to see Iceland on the board. I started school there. Great place.

Any chance you can get out your formatting wand, Madame? I'm cross-eyed trying to interpret your findings.

Lonnie, I'm a trying. It seems OS doesn't accept table html code...ugh....

Any way we could see it for just gold medals, since that's a particular obsession with so many, too?

This is awesome, MB. (Looks good for me, too)

Stellaa, I saw the link you posted. That's a much more sophisticated and time-consuming analysis, to be sure :)

Canning and making jam? Whoa, I'm having a flashback to my childhood with Grandma Bitch.

And yes, she's still alive (knock on wood) and quite bitchy :)

The Aussies are an impressive bunch...one of the heavy-ish weights, with a relatively small (if rich) population.

LOL. The Times (London) has an article in tomorrow's paper on the medal issue I discussed in my blog:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4599875.ece

America needs to let others take this one, I think. Otherwise, America is the oblivious asshole.

Mongolians, Azerbaijanis and Kazakhs (not Kazakhstanis, I think) all did well in Olympic Judo. Mongolians especially. Of course, the Chinese piled up some medals in this sport, as well. There are 56 individual medals given in Judo. Mongolian man won the first gold medal ever for that country. Video is here, if you want to sit through a commercial and watch the lame NBC production; there's some interesting Judo by the Mongolian further in:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/share.html?videoid=0814_sd_jub_rc_ce169