To account for population sizes, we divided medal count of each country by population. Competing countries earned between 0 and 3 medals per million inhabitants. Taking population into account shows that the US and China are no longer the dominant countries. Instead, a small group of countries not typically seen as Olympic powerhouses outperforms the rest. In particular, New Zealand, Hungary, Australia, Denmark, and Croatia performed better than the rest with values of 1 medal or more per 1 million people. India showed the opposite effect with a particularly low number of medals per million inhabitants (about 0.005).