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A study published Pacific Economic Review predicts that China is to earn at least 14% more medals in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing - compared to 144 won medals in the year 2004 - and his medal d 'Tally narrow gap with the United States.
The study also finds that China is not in a position at the top of the second division and remained behind the United States, and goes beyond speculating that Japan and South Korea to earn considerably fewer medals 2008 2004 performance.
Lead-author of the study "Men and silver medals: an econometric analysis of the Olympic Games", Associate Professor Lui Hon-Kwong - of Marketing & International Business at Lingnan University in Hong Kong -- said: "This study will Storage on comments, the big and rich countries is also available in the international sports events, and attempts to determine the effects of population and per capita income is higher than the number of medals won. "
The study results show that the population and income of the Act have a significant impact on the number of Olympic medals. And, despite the control of two main factors powerful country-specific effects in the results remain Olympic medal - the belief that a country or a performance in sport is, to some degree, depending upon the amount of funds available -- hence the trend to larger and better-rich countries in international sporting events.
"Unlike most believe that Asians are not very good in sport, the results of this study show that Asian screen sports performances." |
