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Success at the Summer Olympics: How Much Do Economic Factors Explain?
Published 2014-12-01“…We use country-level panel data for the seven Summer Olympiads from 1988 to 2012. The size and composition of the country’s Olympic team are shown to be highly significant factors, as is also the past performance, which generates a persistence effect.…”
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URSS vs. EEUU, RDA vs. RFA: Guerra Fría en los Juegos Olímpicos de Verano (1952-1988) (U.S.S.R. vs. USA, GDR vs. FRG: Cold War at the Summer Olympics (1952-1988))
Published 2018-01-01“…The aim of the present research was to analyze the Summer Olympic medalists from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.), United States of America (USA), the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the period 1952-1988. …”
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Peace as a techno-futurist fantasy: interpreting the opening ceremony of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics
Published 2023-07-01“…South Korea hosted the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games nearly 30 years after the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympic Games and almost 16 after the 2002 Korea/Japan FIFA World Cup. …”
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EDITORIAL
Published 2021-10-01“… Dear friends, All gymnastic disciplines were excellent at this year’s Summer Olympic Games. Great achievements of our athletes in artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastic and trampolining! …”
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Un terrorisme que no va poder ser: el cas d’El complot dels anells
Published 2015-01-01“…O’Brian, an Irish American journalist who has to cover the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. He gets involved in a high-voltage political intrigue, a confabulation that leads a terrorist group to hijack the Olympic stadium and the Catalan president in an attempt to declare independence from Spain. …”
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