Postgraduate student E.V. Gorokhova
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow

While the leading sport nations of the world compete for the Olympic gold, many other nations dream of at least qualifying for the Olympics considering such a qualification a great success. What are the factors of influence on the modern national sports, their access to the global arenas, and how the influences may be rated? The study overviews and analyzes the progress criteria and rating methods applicable for studies of a variety of factors of influence on the national competitive accomplishments in the Olympics and numbers of the national qualifiers for the event. The first studies in this field applied correlation analyses which were later on replaced by more complex econometrics, and lately the analyses made a transition from the quantitative to qualitative rating methods..

Keywords: Olympic Games, Olympic success, forecast of results, regression analysis.

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