Looking at the location of Olympic medal winners

Y5/6C have been investigating the distribution of Olympic medal winners.  We used atlases and globes to find countries that have won 50 or more medals in the Summer Olympic games and thought of reasons why some countries win more medals than others.

Our findings sparked a lot of discussion.  We found that generally the location of most medals were won by the richer/Western countries or mostly the Northern Hemisphere.  Some exceptions were the number of medals won by Kenya and Jamaica, who are strong at specialist events. 

'You find most medals winners are in the richer countries, because they have more facilities and or more money to send athletes/competitors to other countries.  The rest of the countries are poor and don't have the facilities or resources.' By Ollie