Essay topic:
The chart below shows the total number of Olympic medals won by twelve different countries.
Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Given are figures providing a comparison of the number of Olympic medals acquired by athletes in twelve different countries. It is evident from the information provided that gold medals make up the largest portion among gold, silver and bronze medallists.
The most outstanding feature of the graph is that the USA has the highest number of total medals as well as of each category, with practically 2300 in total and approximately 500 in separate categories. It is ahead of the figure for the Soviet Union, the country comes next, by a wide margin, with about 1000 decorations in total. When it comes to Japan, this country ranks last with merely 400 medals, which is nearly half as many as the Soviet Union and one-eighth as many as the USA.
There is less marked difference in the figure for the rest nations, which is hovering around 500 medals, also in the number of each type of medal.
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