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We are going to be combining the data on the best performances from each country in each event all into one big outcome list, and this way, we will find out the answer to a lot of the below questions, both by region, globally and tracking major changes over time, while this virtual world cup extravaganza also allows us to see what will happen when there are real teams events, who will beat who by big margins, and who against who is close enough so it could go either way.

So let's prepare to find out: Which teams are good in the 40-event track and field all-round teams context? Which teams are the very best? Who is stronger all-round, Italy, Spain, the Ukraine, Poland or France? What about Japan or China? Can another Eastern team rise up to match or beat both of these? Can anyone match Russia and Germany? Which team will emerge as by far superior from Africa? And who are the next-best all-round teams from there, behind Africa's number one?

Results obtainined using plenty of real data, from all 40 disciplines of track and field, to come up with one overall ranking list of country teams, over five recent years.

Who has the strongest country team from Latin America? Who will make it and who will miss out on the race for a top 10 in the Americas place? Which of the smaller countries in Europe is strongest? And how high in the order can they go? Are New Zealand, Korea, India, Thailand, Turkey, Iran, or any of their neighbours a strong force in track and field? If our committee decides to split the US up, how many of its special teams will make the top 10 and the top 5 in the world? Will Cuba, Mexico, Jamaica, or Argentina be the strongest in their region? And which of these will be the weakest in the all-round contests? How many from each continent will make the top 100? Which races for a place in or near the top ten will be the closest, and most interesting? Which repeat-duel rematch will go one way one year and then the reverse another year? Will all our teams end up meeting the same opponents again, or will new opponents appear and rise up the order to find new closest rivals in the higher levels of competition? What will happen if we put the ladies in with the 40th to 45th placed men's team? Which team will be recognised as the most amazing improver and emerging star of the sport? What will the most repetitive feature of the events be? Who will win the battle of the under 20 million inhabitants countries? What about the battle of the population of nations with under 5 million? Which big GDP countries will miss out on all the coveted prizes being handed out? Who will win the regional, middle-order and special contest, and where will each of these countries be in the final overall rankings? Read on and find out.

Unlike some sporting tournaments, we will be choosing to focus not just on the battle for first place, which forms one big enduring part of it, but also on the battles among all the other teams to emerge from their groups of 16 teams at their same strength-level tiering, all seeking to become one of the top challengers. If a team has missed out on being awarded a higher status rank, its next struggle is to try to win its current category, to be crowned as the best of the rest, and thereby to rise up and gain a status one day. If a team has won a higher status rank, its next battle is to win an even higher status rank. We have five or six up for grabs, with super power of the sport being the ultimate status any athletics team could ever win.

We operate with five simple rules:

The IAAF data is...