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The 2018 Winter Games in PyeongChang Performance of the host nations
A focus on South Korea participating in the international comparison of the Sports Policy factors Leading to International Sporting Success (SPLISS 2.0)
Veerle De Bosscher, Andreas Ch. Weber & Simon Shibli
With the 2018 Olympic Winter Games starting this week, our newsletter focuses on the host nation South Korea. As South Korea was a partner nation involved in the SPLISS 2.0 project, we will show the overall results of the country on the nine elite sport policy pillars used in the SPLISS 2.0 benchmarks. Read more
Figure 1: Distribution of Success of South Korea at the 2014 Sochi Games per discipline: The percentages per discipline indicate the relative size of the market (i.e. the number of Olympic medals as provided by the IOC at the 2014 Sochi Games).
With an average annual budget spent on elite sport policies of 253 million euros,South Korea was the highest investor in elite sport policies. South Korea is clearly an outlier among the 15 sample nations with substantial national funding invested in elite sport.
Figure 2: How did South Korea perform on the 9 pillars of elite sport policies?
Publications Positioning in Olympic Winter sports: analysing national prioritisation of funding and success in eight nations (2018). European Sport Management Quarterly.Download
Andreas Ch. Weber, Veerle De Bosscher & Hippolyt Kempf.
Talent development programmes: a retrospective analysis of the age and support services for talented athletes in 15 nations (2018).European Sport Management Quarterly, online. Download (free copy, 50)
Veerle De Bosscher & Jens De Rycke.
Convergence and divergence of elite sport policies: is there a one size fits all model to develop international sporting success? An international comparison of the SPLISS in 15 nations. (2018). Journal of Global Sport Management.Download
Veerle De Bosscher, Simon Shibli, Hans Westerbeek, Maarten van Bottenburg
A mixed methods approach to compare elite sport policies of nations. a critical reflection on the use of composit indicators in the SPLISS study (2018). Sport in Society, special issue research methods, online. Download (free copy, max 50)
Veerle De Bosscher.
Measuring competition in the Olympic Winter Games 1992–2014 using economic indices (2017). Managing Sport and Leisure. Download
Andreas Ch. Weber, Hippolyt Kempf, Simon Shibli & Veerle De Bosscher.
Competitive balance trends in elite table tennis: the olympic games and world championships 1988-2016 (2017). Journal of Sports Sciences. Download (free copy, max 50).
Zheng, J., Taeyeon, O., Seungmo K., Dickson, G., De Bosscher, V.
Book chapters Sotiriadou, P. & De Bosscher, V. (2017). Managing high performance sport. In T. Bradbury, O’Boyle (Eds) Understanding sport management, pp. 73-95. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-10062-6
Bastos, F.C, Böhme, M.T.S., & De Bosscher, V. (2017). High performance sport policies and climate in different Brazilian governmental levels. In B. Pitt and J. Zhang (Eds). Global Sport Management: Contemporary Issues and Inquiries. World Association for Sport Management series (WASM), pp.109-132. London & New York: Routledge. ISBN: 9781138229617.
SPLISS-related publications Papadimitriou, D., & Alexandris, K. (2017). Adopt an athlete for Rio 2016’: the impact of austerity on the Greek elite sport system. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Download
Ramon, R. (2017). Critical factors influencing international sporting success of the Philippines: the athletes's perceptive . Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science. Download
Rasmus K. Storm, Klaus Nielsen & Frederik Thomsen. (2016). Can a Small nation be Competitive in the Global Sporting Arms Race? The Case of Denmark. Managing Sport and Leisure. Download
SPLISS is coordinatied by Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) In joint collaboration with:
SPLISS-2.0 partners
Belgium, Université Catholique de Louvain ● Brazil, University of São Paulo ● David Legg, Mount Royal University ● Denmark, Danish Institute for Sports Studies & University of Southern Denmark ● Estonia, National Audit Office of Estonia ● France, Institut National du Sport et de l'Éducation Physique-INSEP ● Finland, KIHU - Research institute for Olympic Sports ● Japan, Waseda University ● United Kingdom, Sport Northern Ireland ● Portugal, Beira Interior University ● Spain, National Institute of Physical Education of Catalonia, INEFC ● South-Korea, Korea Institute of Sport Science ● Switzerland, Swiss Federal Institute of Sport Magglingen SFISM
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