The commonly believed mechanism for increasing sport participation assumes that elite sport performances result in a greater number of people taking up sport.
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Athletes are increasingly expected to be good role models. But we don’t usually expect them to sacrifice their chance of winning to help others.
Medal counts for individual countries from the Sydney 2000 to London 2012 Olympics have been predicted relatively accurately, using just a small number of demographic and economic characteristics.
