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Michael Phelps is big everywhere, except in Japan.
Saori Yoshida won wrestling silver for Japan.
Indian badminton star P.V. Sindhu, #6, earned her position among a slew of Americans on the English Wikipedia.
Juan Martín del Potro of Argentina (#6) won silver in men's singles tennis.
Brazilian Daiane dos Santos (#9) appeared in the 2004–2012 Olympics.
Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina (#6) won three medals at this Olympics, including gold in uneven bars.
Judoka Teddy Riner of France was the most popular athlete on the French Wikipedia.
Table-tennis player Jun Mizutani won two medals and was the seventh-most popular athlete in Japan, but that was still more popular than both Phelps and Bolt.
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A television straight from the 1950s.
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But snakes are much more dangerous! According to Schauer, while general rules are always less fair than case-by-case decisions, their existence can be justified by other arguments.
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