BACKGROUND Beijing successfully hosted the 2008 Olympic Games, and the services including medical services were widely appreciated by both participants and visitors. We retrospectively analyzed the quality of the medical services provided to athletes, spectators, VIPs, and the workforce during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The information thus gathered would be useful for planning strategies ...

At the time of this publication the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Rio 2016) are long gone and the mindset of most people is already directed to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Rio 2016 hosted almost 11.000 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs). With 306 sets of medals, the games featured 42 Olympic sports, including rugby and golf. Paradoxically, as Rio ...

The paper mainly applies a weighted accumulative method to predict Chinese previous Olympic Games medals total amount and analyze golden medals total amount floating change rule. According to analysis, the paper thinks that Olympic Games medals change rule can be predicted from three aspects that are Chinese economic strength, number of Chinese participants and Chinese medals amount changes fol...

BACKGROUND In 2009, the International Judo Federation (IJF) created a World Ranking List (WRL) to classify athletes according to their performance in international-level competitions and to qualify athletes for the Olympic Games. OBJECTIVES Considering that this ranking system provides useful information concerning athletes' performance in competitions during a 2-year period and during Olympi...

abstract there are varieties of researches for appraisal of results obtained by countries in olympics, using data envelopment analysis method. this research is aimed to make such appraisal for iranians’ results in olympics games using the dea method. before taking any measures, main issues of dea methods for appraisal of olympics games in the previous research were discussed, afterward optimiza...

The aim of present study was comparison of advanced physical fitness profile between Olympic soccer team members of Iran according to playing position. 29 Invited soccer players to the 17th national Olympic soccer team of Iran dispatched to 17th Asian Olympics Games, Incheon 2014 )mean age of 20.39± 2.01 yrs(, divided into five group of goalkeepers, defenders, midfield players, wingers and atta...

it is usual to rank the participating countries in olympic games in accordance with the number of medals they have won. but it should be mentioned that achieving competition output (medals acquired) is possible only through utilization of input and appropriate processes. so, lower input should be considered along with higher outputs to evaluate more precisely and regularly. in this study, one o...

Prior to the late 1960s, Canadian Olympic teams did not consistently include a physician or a health care team. The thirty-six medical personnel accompanying Canada’s 265 athletes at the 2004 Olympics games in Athens represent the growth of the sports medicine field in both Canada and at the Olympic games. This paper chronicles and analyzes the changing composition of the Canadian Olympic teams...