Cos I am measuring winners, not second, third or fourth placers.
Obscure factoid, but have you noticed that the US lists victory by all medals and most other countries list them gold first, silver second etc.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/medals/countries
So folks in the US generally think they were top of the 2008 Olympic medals table, whereas elsewhere they think China won.
1 China (CHN) 51 gold 21 silver 28 bronze 100 total
2 United States (USA) 36 gold 38 silver 36 bronze 110 total
Whereas I think Australia won, as usual - using my population based model.