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The Telegraph page that this is pulling data from is itself out of date by a couple of days. The official website might be a better source:

http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/

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I tried using that page, but they were resisting about automated bots by giving "Forbidden Request" reponses. I'll try to find a better source though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/medals/countries

Scraping 101: Set you user-agent to mimic a browser, for example: curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/14.0.835.186 Safari/535.1" http://www.london2012.com/medals/medal-count/

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