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World Athletics Champs 2015 medal table
Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Kenya 7 6 3 16
2 Jamaica 7 2 3 12
3 United States 6 6 6 18
4 Great Britain 4 1 2 7
5 Ethiopia 3 3 2 8
6 Poland 3 1 4 8
7 Canada 2 3 3 8
7 Germany 2 3 3 8
9 Russia 2 1 1 4
10 Cuba 2 1 0 3GB still finishing above Russia in athletics events only
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Sailing is not a stupid sport! You probably don't understand it. It does make for shit tv though.
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@bashthebox
Well, the medal table argument is a little disingenuous - we do well because we target sports in which throwing a shit load of money at them can give us a return. Cycling's the very obvious one, but other stupid sports like sailing, rowing etc, where most of the world doesn't give a fuck are good prospects for medals. Russia loves the banner sports, like athletics. There's a lot of complaints from middle distance runners particularly about the russian athletes. Tends to be that dirty athletes don't complain about other dirty athletes so much.