I saw Bill Sweeney interviewed this morning on Sky News saying it will be very tough to emulate this in Tokyo. He said the host nation will be competitive across all sports, the Chinese will want a much better performance as it's in Asia, Russia will be back in full, Australia can't keep...
Blueprint based on Australia's model?
Was it 1976 at Montreal when they didn't do very well and implemented it all? Could have been Munich in 1972, but I'll stick with Montreal.
Good effort. France & Greece in place of Sweden and Netherlands though. If useless trivia was a subject at university, I would have a doctorate in it. The other one I know off the top of my head is the 12 countries that have competed at every winter Olympics -
Austria, Canada, Finland...
One for you then, leaving aside the technicality of competing under the Olympic flag in 1980:
Q. Who are the only 5 countries to have competed at every modern Olympics since 1896?