The Impact of One Athlete Pt. 1
How much impact can an individual athlete have at a multi-national sports competition? The answer is considerable if you follow our 2010 Commonwealth Games GDP Adjusted Medals Ranking. After factoring in late results from day 3 of the event, the top spot in our ranking was seized by Uganda and it was all down to Moses Ndiema Kipsiro who won the men’s 5000m event.
The GDP adjustment in our ranking attempts to create a more equitable comparison between all the competing nations. One consequence of this is that individual athletes from smaller nations can have a much greater impact. Nevertheless we feel that in the case of Moses Kipsiro such recognition is fully deserved. The guy was leading at the bell (after 4,600m) and still held off three strong Kenyans at a sprint for the entire final 400m – awesome. So Moses Kipsiro deserves special congratulations and of course all the athletes competing at these games deserve our support and admiration.
2011 Feb 13 16:17 author: Robert L Bassenden
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2011 Feb 22 16:20 author: mapster
Mr Bassenden,
Thanks for your interest in our site. I’m sorry you didn’t find what you were looking for but it seems like a strange thing to get really ticked off about. For future reference Canada Flag Day is Feb 15th, one day after Valentine’s Day so perhaps easy to remember. The fact that this information is missing from the site should not be taken as a slight against Canada. The site typically only mentions the primary holiday for each country, Canada Day in the case of Canada. We certainly hope you’ll find that Canada is adequately represented in the range of products that we offer.