Comment on Olympic casual GigaChad

• CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In 2020 there were 448 events at the Olympics, let’s round up to 450. Each event gives 3 medals, for a total of 1350 medals. The Olympics are held every four years, so that 337.5 medals are awarded in an average year.

  There are about 8.1 billion people in the world. On average, 0.000004 % of the worlds population receives an Olympic medal each year.

  If this were a completely random yearly lottery, and you lived for 100 years, you would have about a 0.0004 % chance of winning an Olympic medal in your lifetime.

  I would count myself lucky if I won that by the time I was 50.

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  • PeterLossGeorgeWall@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just to be a total pendant, some of the events give two bronzes, e.g. boxing. It won’t change the conclusion of your comment of course.

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    • CapeWearingAeroplane@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I love pedantry <3 I got the “three medals per event” from some Wikipedia page, and I know they love pedantry over there as well, so maybe you should make a contribution?

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In that case, let me add that in team events, each member gets a medal.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    no no you see, there are hundreds of people who got silver medals, it is not a big deal.

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• shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  yes

  literally only one person can get silver in each category every 4 years? per 8 billion people out there

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    …but the comment was about quality and quantity of the disadvantage, not about winning silver in Olympics.

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• RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How many medals do you have?

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  • czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Personally none in the Olympics, but I have the same amount of Tour de France’s as Lance Armstrong (and one more ball)

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