Hi Evan,

>>Pretty high up on capital punishment as well :-)
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>What's the larger issue there? Perhaps they are out of step with the rest of the developed world on some issues like captial punishment, but not sure if they can be turned into a best vs worst.
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>>Not so hot at soccer (probably the most common world game)
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>I'll give you half a point, on that the men do poorly, but so far the US women's team dominates. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_at_the_Summer_Olympics

As Metin said, I would not read to much into that. I don't know the story behind the women, but in the case of the men, a lot of countries just don't send off a team to the olympics for whatever reason. Though the netherlands on the average has a very good team, I don't recall them ever to be on the olympics. We do have women playing soccer, but it is very rare and hardly a mature sport over here. The olympics of course is never a good measure for world rankings, because only one tournament in 4 years is counted on it. Only when a nation has shown over a larger number of events to be at the top, you can draw any conclusion out of it.

Walter,