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Amount of GDP versus medals would be interesting as well.
by drpgq 10y ago
Amount of GDP versus medals would be interesting as well.
- sevenless 10y agoWas thinking Olympic medals per local dollar-equivalent spent on training. Who's got the most cost-effective sports programs?
- dogma1138 10y agoIt's a bit harder to estimate, it's like evaluating NASA and ROSCOSMOS, NASA's budget is considerably larger but it's not necessarily "less efficient" just because each mission costs more. Olympic medals per portion of GDP spent on sports education and the olympic team in each country might be a better method. Also a good metric is how much effort/cost does it take to get into the olympic team of each country, the US is somewhat special in this case since in some cases one needs to break a world record just to get pass the team's trials since they have a huge pool of athletes competing for spots. But the US is an outlier in general, it's pretty much the only country where you can live as a semi-pro athlete and actually make money, college sports are better funded than most professional sports leagues in other countries (NCAA has a 700M club pool, UEFA champions league has a club pool of about 700M EURO's), and college athletic scholarships exist for virtually every sport.
- jessaustin 10y agoAnother page on TFA's site: http://www.medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-gdp:2016 http://www.medalspercapita.com/#medals-by-gdp:2016