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Olympics

  • Gold Medals, Red Ink: NBC to Lose $200 Million on Games

    media, Olympics
    April 21, 2020
    by Brad Humphreys
    A number of media outlets are reporting that NBC will lose about $200 million dollars on the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games broadcast. The network paid $2.2 billion of the US ...
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  • Olympic Distance Running -- Dominated Strategies?

    game theory, Olympics
    April 16, 2020
    by Brian Goff
    In Thursday's 800m final, David Rudisha set the track on fire with a new world record -- the first ever under 1:41.   He led from start to finish and pulled ...
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  • Olympic Athletes -- Real Life Avengers

    Olympics, Uncategorized
    April 15, 2020
    by Brian Goff
    The Olympics hooked me from my earliest memories of Bill Toomey, Lee Evans, and Jim Hines in Mexico City in 1968.   The Super Bowl, The Tour de France, the ...
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  • Mega Event Legacy Update: Athens Edition

    economic impact, mega-events, Olympics, World Cup
    April 13, 2020
    by Brad Humphreys
    I have been watching quite a bit of World Cup coverage, and the announcers seem to have gone out of their way to complement the new stadiums built for the ...
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  • Monday Potpourri: Olympic Edition

    "billion dollar barrier", Olympics, opportunity cost
    March 23, 2020
    by Brad Humphreys
    Rio was selected to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Despite lobbying by President Obama, First Lady Obama, and mega-star Oprah, Chicago's bid was eliminated in the first round of ...
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  • "Technological Doping"? - The Speedo LZR

    doping, Olympics, swimming
    March 23, 2020
    by Phil Miller
    Swimming has its version of the aluminum bat, an improvement in capital design that makes "labor" very productive, at least in an absolute sense. Maybe too much so: Since its ...
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  • The Economy and the Olympics

    Olympics, public funding
    February 24, 2020
    by Phil Miller
    There's an article on the front page of today's Denver Post about the effect of the stumbling economy on the Olympics: Although the Olympic flame was extinguished just a little ...
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  • Beijing Olympic Games Open

    Olympics
    February 24, 2020
    by Brad Humphreys
    The opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympic games are today. I wrote a short article for the July/August issue of Foreign Policy on some of the financial aspects of ...
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  • Should US Olympic Training Be Federally Supported?

    Olympics
    January 15, 2020
    by Phil Miller
    Here’s a short post about the sacrifices made to make an athlete an Olympian. Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be Olympians. It may not have the ring ...
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  • Boxing Could Face Future Olympics Knockout Blow

    Olympics
    January 4, 2020
    by Ben Burd
    The Olympic Games have long been regarded as the highest standard in the sport of amateur boxing, with fighters from all over the world battling through years of hard work ...
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  • It's all Greek to Economists

    mega-events, Olympics
    November 22, 2019
    by Victor Matheson
    Financial turmoil has roiled Greece over the past several weeks. There is real concern that budget deficits in that country will lead to its government defaulting on its debt and ...
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  • "Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics"

    economic impact, mega-events, Olympics
    November 1, 2019
    by Phil Miller
    The Summer Olympics are just around the corner and the Spring 2016 issue of the Journal of Economic of Economic Perspectives has a paper on the economics of the Olympics.  The ...
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