Olympics Coverage

Every country emphasizes the events that it does well in. Accordingly, New Zealand is crazy about the "twins". Georgina and Caroline Evers-Swindell won gold medals in the skulls (rowing). So they are on the cover of every newspaper and magazine and interviewed on the telly quite frequently.

Additionally, many newspaper inches and lots of media coverage is dedicated to discussion of MPC - medals per capita. New Zealand was doing very well for most of the Olympics but then were usurped at the end by a few very small nations getting a bronze or two. In the end, NZ finished 9th in the world with one medal for every 462,717 people. Feel free to let people you meet at parties know that the Bahamas "really won" the Olympics with one medal for every 153,725 people.