At the Rio Olympics, there are the usual powerhouses:Team USA, with 554 athletes. Australia, with 420. China, with 401.And then there are the tiny countries: overwhelmed, but proud.I went on a quest to find the tiniest of the tiny countries at the Summer Games. And I happened to find the delegation at the Olympic athletes' village, speaking a mashup of English and Nauruan.That's right, the south Pacific nation of Nauru, the world's smallest island state, wins gold for being the smallest country by population at the Olympics. (Monaco is smaller in area, but has more people.)The athlete delegation from Nauru: a grand total of two.Just how small is Nauru?"About 10-, 11,000 people. Twenty-two square miles. It's very small," the president of the Nauru Olympic Committee, Marcus Stephen, says. He's a three-time Olympic athlete himself in weightlifting.Looking around him, he says, "I think you have more people here at the Olympic village than the whole population of Nauru. That's how small we
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