Abstract
Scholars who explored the factors behind countries’ success in elite sport have all referred to the Olympic Medal table to measure this type of success. This chapter first draws attention to the inaccuracies of the Olympic Medal Table then gives a detailed account on the World Ranking of Countries in Elite Sport, an innovative research-based ranking methodology, which measures the performance of all the National Olympic Committees in all recognized international competitions on a yearly basis. By ranking all countries, the World Ranking of Countries in Elite Sport will allow for more holistic and accurate comparative studies measuring the success of national elite sport policies.
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Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus (World Health Organization, 2020) that led to the cancellation of the 2020 Olympics (Washington Post, 2020) and many of the other international competitions ( European Union of Football Association, 2020; Wimbledon, 2020), the 2020 WRCES was cancelled. The results of the competitions that took place in 2020 will be counted for 2021. A new modification happened also in 2021: The Paralympic sports will be regrouped and counted as one sport, called Para-sport. The popularity coefficient of the latter will be calculated like for the other sports and its universality coefficient will be the sum of the universality coefficients of all the Paralympic sports.
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Nassif, N., Raspaud, M. (2023). Measurement of Countries’ Performances and Successes in Elite Sport: The World Ranking of Countries in Elite Sport. In: National Success in Elite Sport. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38997-9_1
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