Nationalistic Media Obsession With Olympic Medal Counts: The Case of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Because Olympic medals are awarded to athletes representing an individual National Olympic Committee, it is natural for the media, and even the International Olympic Committee, to create a table indicating which nation has experienced the most athletic success. Problems, and even disagreements, aris...
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| description | Because Olympic medals are awarded to athletes representing an individual National Olympic Committee, it is natural for the media, and even the International Olympic Committee, to create a table indicating which nation has experienced the most athletic success. Problems, and even disagreements, arise when nations utilize different methods to count medals. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, contested in 2021, provided a unique opportunity to observe how media organizations create a narrative around medal tables. American media outlets preferred to consistently show the United States at the top of the medal standings even though China had more gold medals for much of the Games' fortnight. Non-American media organizations took exception to that method of counting. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-89b8a61fcbdb4b09ab8772a453d6909e2022-12-22T01:12:06ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sports and Active Living2624-93672022-03-01410.3389/fspor.2022.848071848071Nationalistic Media Obsession With Olympic Medal Counts: The Case of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic GamesSteve Dittmore0Kibaek Kim1Department of Health, Human Performance and Recreation, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United StatesDepartment of Sports Industry, Korea Institute of Sport Science, Seoul, South KoreaBecause Olympic medals are awarded to athletes representing an individual National Olympic Committee, it is natural for the media, and even the International Olympic Committee, to create a table indicating which nation has experienced the most athletic success. Problems, and even disagreements, arise when nations utilize different methods to count medals. The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, contested in 2021, provided a unique opportunity to observe how media organizations create a narrative around medal tables. American media outlets preferred to consistently show the United States at the top of the medal standings even though China had more gold medals for much of the Games' fortnight. Non-American media organizations took exception to that method of counting.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspor.2022.848071/fullmediaOlympic Games (OG)medal countsframingnationalism |
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| title | Nationalistic Media Obsession With Olympic Medal Counts: The Case of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games |
| title_full | Nationalistic Media Obsession With Olympic Medal Counts: The Case of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games |
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| title_short | Nationalistic Media Obsession With Olympic Medal Counts: The Case of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games |
| title_sort | nationalistic media obsession with olympic medal counts the case of the 2020 tokyo olympic games |
| topic | media Olympic Games (OG) medal counts framing nationalism |
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