Which host country was the first to win more gold medals at the next Olympics after being a host nation?
Australia became the first country in Olympic history to win more gold medals (17) immediately after hosting the Olympics in Sydney 2000 where they won 16 gold medals.
Australia competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece from 13 to 29 August 2004. Australian athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era. The Australian Olympic Committee sent a total of 470 athletes (268 men and 202 women) to the Games to compete in 29 sports.
Australia entered the Athens Games having won a total of 58 medals, including 17 gold, the most to date. Its strongest sports were swimming, cycling, diving, and rowing.
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billyboy915
How convoluted can we make a question?
Here's one: If a canoe paddles uphill, how many shingles on a doghouse roof?
Naked Kitty Slave
That's a mouthful of a convoluted hot mess. Good thing I saw the question verbatim to this one on another trivia site.
earlepg
Jennifer Dyster, (I'm sure that 170 figure should read 17.) Also, it seems that there many times where countries earn one medal, while earning none in prior years, which is essentially the same (an improvement of one).
Leapy Lee
Easy q for an Aussie
Jennifer Dyster
not statistically significant (16 to 170) Basically equally successful