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    4 hours ago

    But the US only completed as one country in each discipline while each country in Europe has the chance to earn a medal for ‘Europe’. To make it comparable, either

    1. each US state would have needed to field their own team and you average over the number of teams or

    2. EU and the US would have needed to compete with one team each per competition

    that said, Europe is indeed very successful at the Olympics per capita