Effect of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games on COVID-19 incidence in Japan: a synthetic control approach
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061444
Abstract: Background The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games (23 July–8 August 2021) were held in the middle of Japan’s fifth wave of COVID-19, when the number of cases was on the rise, and coincided with the… read more here.
Keywords: control; tokyo; summer olympic; 2020 summer ... See more keywords
Existential threats to the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games? a review of emerging environmental health risks
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DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2020-0141
Abstract: Abstract This review highlights two intersecting environmental phenomena that have significantly impacted the Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games: infectious disease outbreaks and anthropogenic climate change. Following systematic searches of five databases and the gray… read more here.
Keywords: health; health risks; paralympic games; summer ... See more keywords
Where is victory most certain? The level of luck-based noise factor in Summer Olympic Games
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DOI: 10.1556/032.2021.00018
Abstract: We describe a statistical approach for the measurement of the newly defined luck-based noise factor in sports. It is defined as the difference between the actual outcome and the expected outcome based on the model… read more here.
Keywords: luck based; based noise; noise factor; factor ... See more keywords
Measuring Efficiency in the Summer Olympic Games Disciplines: The Case of the Spanish Athletes
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DOI: 10.3390/math9212688
Abstract: This paper estimates the technical efficiency of Olympic disciplines in which Spanish athletes participate, taking into account the results obtained in the last three Olympic Games. A stochastic production frontier model (normal-exponential), using two control… read more here.
Keywords: spanish athletes; measuring efficiency; olympic games; efficiency summer ... See more keywords