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Determinants of the Olympic Success of Different Countries-Becker

The Becker-Posner Blog (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

Hundreds of millions of men and women all over the world have been tuned to their television sets and clued to their computer screens as they followed the Olympic extravaganza in Beijing. The pride taken by people of different countries in their own athletes as they compete against the best from other countries is truly remarkable. To Americans, the main interest this year has been Michael Phelps'...


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Matthew Syed on the Olympics

Fora (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008

Two excellent articles by Matthew Syed in the Times recently make the following trenchant observations: First, that far too many medals are offered in minority sports. Michael Phelps is undoubtedly the greatest swimmer in the world; perhaps ever. Of that there can be no doubt. But at the same time, if Phelps were a country he'd be in the top ten on the medals board; does that make sense? The reason...