International Physics Olympiad :-)

This year's competition will be held in Esfahan in about 5 weeks and ends after 1 week. I think Iran's team for this year has already been formed cause the leader had a meeting with them today.
Scores and winners will be announced sometime after the olympic is concluded, and medals are given for "per country" and per person.
For about 20 years, if I remember it correctly, China has won almost every gold. Even the American team is often made of Chinese students.
The competition is held between late high school age students, not university age students.
For Iranians, the yearly university entrance exams is somewhat equivalent to these olympiads competitions (there are olympiads for math, computer science, and other fields also).
The two exams have their own interesting features, and both are fun to look into. The Iranians university entrance exams are tougher than the olympiad questions, but competition is only with other Iranians of age 18 or very close to 18. While, for the Olympiad exams, questions may be a tiny bit simpler, but the competition is with the whole world! So the top ones in both exams, will sure shine!...
So I can't wait to see the results of this year's olympiad. The Iranian university entrance exams have already been carried out, but the results aren't out yet. The presidential helicopter crash postponed it a bit.
It would be pretty boring to again see Chinese got all the golds (and if say two Americans got gold their names are Chinese names), so that's not what I'm waiting for. What interest me are those exceptions, and generally those individuals or teams that get very close to Chinese team and individuals, because it really doesn't matter that much if you get Gold or get Silver or Bronze over there at the top, if the competition was against what the whole world had offered. Just being there among those few top ones already says a great deal about them.