Re:Great visualization of olympic medals won by year
by jimbokun on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @02:18PM
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And China seems to appear out of nowhere in 1984. Was that their first year participating?
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Re:Great visualization of olympic medals won by year
by Chocobean on Wednesday August 06, 2008 @03:48PM
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if its not bad form to quote wikipedia, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China where it mentions the fall of the Gang of Four. I think what happened was that China was pretty unstable what with the Wars and then the Communist takeover in 1950, and the Great Leap Forward (exercise in Irony) crippled the country until the economic reforms around the same time as 1984.