{"id":35643,"date":"2016-08-23T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35643"},"modified":"2016-08-22T21:32:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T01:32:50","slug":"hey-eu-two-can-play-this-silly-medal-total-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/hey-eu-two-can-play-this-silly-medal-total-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, EU! Two can play this silly medal total game!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re on <em>Twitter<\/em> or <em>Facebook<\/em>, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen at least one variant of this bit of EU self-puffery going around:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/EU-fake-2016-Olympic-medal-ranking.png\" alt=\"EU fake 2016 Olympic medal ranking\" width=\"440\" height=\"275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/EU-fake-2016-Olympic-medal-ranking.png 440w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/EU-fake-2016-Olympic-medal-ranking-150x94.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/order-order.com\/2016\/08\/22\/empire-would-beat-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guido Fawkes<\/em><\/a> points out, under those rules the British Empire completely eclipses the medal total of all the EU states:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The former countries of the British Empire won 396 medals \u2013 138 more medals than a post-Brexit EU. While the European Parliament invents an EU state to \u201cwin\u201d the Olympics, the medal tally of a one-time actual supra-state leaves Brussels for dust. Former member countries of the British Empire accrued 76 more medals than the rest of the world (24%). <font color=\"red\"><em>In all, the Empire\u2019s score of 137 gold medals trounces the EU\u2019s, which after removing Great Britain sits at just 79.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Looking at other alliances NATO countries took a stunning 443 out of the 974 medals on offer (45%), while Anglosphere countries grabbed a whopping 288 \u2013 30% of the world total. This is compared to Francophone states\u2019 measly 87 (9%), even with Canada\u2019s 22 (2%) generously included. <font color=\"red\"><em>Hoisting the colours appears to have been good luck; countries with Union Jacks in their flags took a massive 115 medals, of which 40 were gold!<\/em><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re on Twitter or Facebook, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve seen at least one variant of this bit of EU self-puffery going around: As Guido Fawkes points out, under those rules the British Empire completely eclipses the medal total of all the EU states: The former countries of the British Empire won 396 medals \u2013 138 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,28,18],"tags":[337,391,314,593,310],"class_list":["post-35643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-media","category-sports","tag-eu","tag-facebook","tag-olympics","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9gT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35645,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35643\/revisions\/35645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}