Fiji wins its first Olympic medal ever: gold in Rugby! Welcome to the top of the Gold Medals per Capita table.

New Zealand back is back in the top spot with Dame Valerie Adams's silver in the shot put! medalspercapita.com

Here comes the Caribbean! Perennial per-capita favorites Jamaica and Cuba won their first 2016 medals today!

With a population of only 100,000, Kirani James' silver in the 400m puts Grenada in an almost-unbeatable position!

Shaunae Miller's dive for the finish line in the 400m earns the Bahamas' first medal – number one per capita!

The Independent The Independent discovers that Britain ranks above the United States: independent.co.uk/sport/olympics…

New Zealand's highest ever Olympic medal tally makes it number two in medals per capita! nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/art…

The Bahamas' bronze in the men's 4x400m relay brings them to number two – Caribbean nations in 1, 2 and 3!

The best countries in medals per athlete? Tajikistan, the United States and Azerbaijan! medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-tea…

Queen Elizabeth discusses medals per capita in her annual Christmas message! youtu.be/ouieLx4VryU?t=…

And they're off! The first medals have been awarded in 평창, and perennial Winter Olympic medals per capita champions Norway are in the lead. medalspercapita.com

Michal Krčmář and Veronika Vítková's medals in the biathlon sprint earn the Czech Republic a spot on the medalspercapita podium today!

Finland gains third place in medals per capita, with medals in cross-country skiing and snowboarding. But the Netherlands are first in a new category – medals per square kilometer. Go (geographically) small countries! medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-are…

New this year: all the Winter Olympics results, starting with 1924 in Chamonix. In the all-time winter tally, Norway does very well (as expected,) but Liechtenstein, with its tiny population and alpine geography, is hard to beat! medalspercapita.com/#medals-per-ca…

LIECHTENSTEIN!!! For the first time since Calgary in 1988, Liechtenstein, a country just a little larger than the island of Manhattan (per Dan Vanderkam 🦋's excellent site comparea.org/LIE+r2552485) won an Olympic medal! They're now unbeatable in medals per capita, per km², by GDP...

Well, it's a wrap! Liechtenstein's medal put it unassailably at the top of the roster, but Norway's incredible total put it first in golds per capita – and first even when you factor in its high latitude! medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-lat…

This Olympics, we've inspired Bloomberg and Stern: goo.gl/KYTBAX goo.gl/nbHS57 and Chuck Culpepper, now at the Washington Post, has a great piece about Norway: goo.gl/6XagLv.

I can't sign off without celebrating New Zealand's first Winter Olympics medals since 1992 (which at the time was the first by anyone from the Southern Hemisphere.) Congratulations to Zoi Sadowski-Synnott and Nico Porteous! nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/art… See you all in Tokyo in 2020!