The "alternate" medal table that puts Brazil in eighth place and the United States in fifteenth

– Robin Levinson King – BBC News, Toronto (Canada) Counting medals at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan, once again dominated larger countries such as the United States, which took first place. But what would the ranking look like if population and wealth were taken into account? When it comes to the Olympics, the spirit of dig fu reigns supreme. Every four years, the same countries win medal after medal (US, China, Russia) and Tokyo was no different. The United States won a total of 113 medals, 39 of them gold, more than any other country. So why is it…