Talk:New Zealand Olympic medallists

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Would anyone be opposed to this being moved to New Zealand at the Summer Olympics to match the format used by many other countries? See Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Olympics/Articles. -- Chuq 03:50, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Hmm, I don't like that idea Chuq. If it ain't broke..........! It is not a Summer Olympics article and was not intended to be. It is a record of NZ all-time medallists, summer/winter, just as we might have a record of politicians, artists, or whatever. It nicely stands alone as intended. I would hope that if similar records are written for other countries they could have a similar encyclopedic presentation. Incidentally, that box thingie might work for USA, China etc, but for small countries it would look horribly underwhelming. Cheers.Moriori 05:00, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

Fair enough - I just thought there might be some duplication between the articles. -- Chuq 05:08, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)

The "O" in Olympic should be capitalized, however. RickK 05:22, Aug 28, 2004 (UTC)

The Triathlon medalists have been listed as being part of Athletics when this is blatantly wrong because Triathlon is a completely separate sport, hence I've removed the word athletics from where it shouldn't be. Mathmo

[edit] Chris MacDonald

Is actually Paul MacDonald... and is again.

[edit] Medals per head of population

The international media has often reported that New Zealand punches well above its weight in Olympic Games competition, and on a medals to population basis, New Zealand ranks second only to Jamaica.

I'm a bit suspicious of this statistic, as it doesn't have a citation. (My suspicion has nothing to do with me being an Aussie, mind you ...) Andjam 09:45, 5 November 2005 (UTC)