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Dollar for dollar, the winning nations at the Olympic Games seem to be the poorest

  • Written by Malcolm Whyte, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Science, Australian National University
Dollar for dollar, the winning nations at the Olympic Games seem to be the poorestA.RICARDO/Shutterstock

Success in the Olympic Games is usually focused on medals, especially gold ones, and countries are usually ranked in terms of the number of medals won, and sometimes as medals per million of population or gross domestic product.

Examining individual countries this way yields some clues as to what is associated with success,...

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