Who's the Best?
In this problem, we needed to find a way to use the Olympic medal tally in order to work out which country is the most sporty.
Gianluca from Salesian School in Chertsey sent us his excellent analysis of the Olympic tally. He made use of a scoring system for each type of medal and also took into account the population of each country. You can find his analysis here, thank you Gianluca!
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