Charlotte MacDonald
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1,889 appearances
62 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard Apr 2025
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And even Australia, which has lamented its performance in 2012, winning 11 fewer medals than at the Beijing Olympics, is still punching above its weight, according to Meghan.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Megan says it's partly because they invested in Olympic sports during the Soviet era.
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They're still reaping the benefits of that infrastructure.
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Yes, Meghan estimates that Team GB should expect to get 32 medals when in fact they got 65 in total.
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She attributes this in part to the fact that host countries tend to invest more in sport in the years preceding the Olympics.
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Well, looking at the table, there are some big countries that didn't do very well at all.
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For example, Nigeria and Pakistan, which have populations over 150 million people, got no medals.
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According to Megan's table, Brazil should have got 33, but they actually got 17 medals, while India got only six medals.
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And Megan would have expected it to get 34 and feature in the top ten nations.
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Yes, there are countries with relatively high per capita incomes, but no strong tradition of playing Olympic sports, such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Hong Kong.
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There are also countries that put a bigger emphasis on the Winter Olympics than the Summer Olympics, such as Austria, Switzerland, Canada and Norway.
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If you want to find out more about this, then go to our website, bbc.co.uk slash more or less, where we have an article with more information and tables.
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More or Less was presented by Tim Harford, the Financial Times undercover economist.
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The producer is Richard Knight.
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Well, there's one thing about this story that's true.
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Casualties on roads with 20 mph speed limits did increase between 2010 and 2011.
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As you heard Peter Donaldson say, these data came from the Department for Transport and were published almost a month and a half ago.
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One number, reported by BBC Online, is that there has been a 17% increase in the total number of deaths on 20 mph roads.
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But look at the absolute numbers.
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