South korea - Sports culture or economic growth

by truthbetold Tue Aug 23, 2016 8:02 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_at_the_Olympics

*Red border color indicates tournament was held on home soil.

Medals by Summer Games[edit]

[th]Games[/th][th]Athletes[/th][th]Total[/th][th]Rank[/th][th]Total[/th][th]90[/th][th]85[/th][th]89[/th][th]264[/th][th]15[/th]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
1948 London	50	0	0	2	2	32
1952 Helsinki	19	0	0	2	2	37
1956 Melbourne	35	0	1	1	2	29
1960 Rome	36	0	0	0	0	–
1964 Tokyo	154	0	2	1	3	27
1968 Mexico City	54	0	1	1	2	36
1972 Munich	42	0	1	0	1	33
1976 Montreal	50	1	1	4	6	19
1980 Moscow	did not participate
1984 Los Angeles	175	6	6	7	19	10
1988 Seoul	401	12	10	11	33	4
1992 Barcelona	226	12	5	12	29	7
1996 Atlanta	300	7	15	5	27	10
2000 Sydney	281	8	10	10	28	12
2004 Athens	264	9	12	9	30	9
2008 Beijing	267	13	10	8	31	7
2012 London	248	13	8	7	28	5
2016 Rio de Janeiro	204	9	3	9	21	8
2020 Tokyo	future event

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_South_Korea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_South_Korea#/media/File:South_Korea%27s_GDP_(PPP)_growth_from_1911_to_2008.png

look at South Korea's medal haul since 1980s and check the economic graphic from above links.

South Korea's economic progress is followed by 'sporting culture' rise as in increase of medals.

Whether it is patents or Olympic medals, always remember it is the Economy , Stupid.

by Idéfix Wed Aug 24, 2016 1:08 am

South Korea is one case, and doesn't tell the full story of Olympic achievement. Perhaps economic development leads to strong performance at the Olympics when there are other enabling factors at play in a society. I don't know. The fact that Ethiopia does a lot better than India should give us pause to attribute it all to the economy.

by truthbetold Wed Aug 24, 2016 6:21 am

Host nation
[th]Rank[/th][th]Nation[/th][th]Gold[/th][th]Silver[/th][th]Bronze[/th][th]Total[/th]

1	China	25	11	5	41
2	India	19	32	29	80
3	Japan	15	6	2	23
4	Nigeria	10	12	13	35
5	South Africa	10	11	15	36
6	South Korea	7	6	11	24
7	Algeria	7	6	9	22
8	Uzbekistan	7	2	3	12
-	Rest of Africa	6	4	0	10
9	Kazakhstan	5	8	6	19
10	Ethiopia	5	5	3	13
Total		131	131	149	411

Idefix,

Does this table from 2003 afro Asian games medal tally tells you that Ethiopia has better sporting culture than India? I am not saying India has some extreme sporting culture. If economics are better, countries to do better in sports and other measures.

Kenya, Jamaica, and Iran get more medals because each of them are better than any other country in a narrow band of sports. (India also won hockey gold for decades.) That does not prove they have an overall better sporting culture. Unless one argues that Olympic medals is the only goal for humanity and it elevates a nation to a sporting nation.

Once again, It is the economy.

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