We here at the River Stench secret lair have been avidly watching the Olympic games after the past few weeks and were over the moon when Joe Clarke secured a gold medal in the Men’s K1 Slalom. Everyone except for the dog that is, who didn’t really understand what we were whooping and wailing about.
After a slow start to the games team GB seem to be in full flow today (pun intended) with 2 gold and 3 Bronze medals earned today at time of writing. The other noticeable occurrence today is in Rio the weather has been terrible; wet and windy all day. Or as we like to call it British. Quickly the River Stench’s scientists put together the following graph:
Now as we all know correlation always means causation therefore we can assume that the very British weather is providing team GB with the extra boost they need and is entirely responsible for the day’s success.
One of the more interesting aspects of this data occurs when we extrapolate it. In London team GB won 65 medals over 14 days of glorious sunshine. From our current data we see an increase in medals won of 800% in foul weather. Therefore we can conclude that had it rained for the entirety of the London games, team GB would have won 520 medals in total or roughly 54% of all medals available at the 2012 Olympic games. From this I would strongly recommend the British government to investigate cloud seeding before the Tokyo games or at least dispatch a bunch of people with water pistols to the next games.
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