African Educational Research Journal - Vol. 8(2) - Sports performance, sports health, and Olympic success research

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This study examines how countries’ development levels in sports medicine, exercise, and sports performance relate to Olympic success. A total of 1027 papers published between 2010 and 2018 in a Sports Medicine journal were analyzed by considering the first-author and total-author counts. Pearson correlation assessed relationships between papers and Olympic outcomes using medal counts from 2016, 2012, and 2008 Games, showing significant correlations with both first-author (r = 0.73) and total-author (r = 0.74) numbers.

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Abstract

Introduction

Olympic Games as a global value

Factors influencing Olympic success

African Educational Research Journal Vol. 8(2), pp. 139-146, April 2020 DOI: 10. 30918/AERJ.82.20.031 ISSN: 2354-2160 Full Length Research Paper Effect of sports health and exercise research on Olympic game success: An analytical and correlational survey Süleyman Şahin1* and Fatih Şenduran2 1Bursa Uludag University, Turkey. 2 National Defense University, Sergeant College, Balıkesir, Turkey. Accepted 31 March, 2020 | ABSTRACT
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of countries’ development level in sports medicine, exercise and sports performance on their success in Olympic Games. Within this purpose, 1027 papers that were published between 2010 and 2018 in the journal of Sports Medicine, of which impact factor was 7.074 in 2017, were examined in analytical and correlational terms considering the first author and total author numbers. Pearson Correlation was utilized to find out the relationships between the papers from various countries and their success at Olympic Games. Regarding the number of medals won by the countrıes in the 2016, 2012 and 2008, Olympic Games were found significantly correlated with the number of first author (r = 0.73) and total author (r = 0.74) .
Keywords: Olympic success, medals, science, academic publication, success, sport, medicine. | | --- | | *Corresponding author. E-mail: [suleymansahin@uludag.edu.tr](suleymansahin@uludag.edu.tr). | INTRODUCTION Olympic Games have been one of the common values that were created by civilization and benefited by the entire society in today’s world in which differences are regarded as richness (Parry, 2006) . Organized every four years, Olympic Games have gathered cultures, people and countries together for centuries without language, religion and ethnic discrimination. Being the biggest sports organization around the world, these games are means of peace, courage, resolution, justice and cultural exchange. Participating in the Olympic Games and attending to competitions are an ideal for everybody in performance sports field. Olympic Games are one of the most expensive global gatherings in which a large number of athletes, spectators, sportsmen, media representatives and thousands of volunteers around the world participate, and billions of audience watch via communication tools. In parallel with the thoughts and ideals of Pierre de Coubertin, Modern Olympic Games have still continued to develop with an increasing interest since 1892. Coubertin asserted that “competitions should be organized with a complete amateur spirit and sportsmanship; various people, cultures, customs and traditions should be introduced and the world should bein peace and serenity instead of war”. He advocated his ideal to end the wars around the world, especially in Europe, during the war years and political turmoil; he tried to establish Olympic philosophy in this sense. For Coubertin Olympic Games were not an organization or system, and he suggested it as a living system of thought. In Olympic Games, countries do not compete against each other (IOC, 2015) . Within this fundamental ideal framework, Olympic Games are to encourage and contribute to justice, peace and friendly competition, and be against ethnical and racist discriminations (Reid, 2006) . The greatest target of countries holding Olympic Games is to introduce their country in the best way to billions of people by means of written and visual press. On the other hand, the Olympics have many benefits for the host country. Some of these benefits include the restoration of transportation system and landscape, building new sports facilities that will be used in the Olympic Games and then by the people living in that country, the increasing number of tourists, creating a sports culture among individuals of the society etc.(Güçlü, 2001) . Additionally, in host countries it is observed that people’s interest and support to sports enhance during the years before the Games, which in turn, results

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What does the study aim to investigate about Olympic success?

It investigates how countries’ development levels in sports medicine, exercise, and sports performance affect their success in Olympic Games.

How was the relationship between papers and Olympic outcomes analyzed?

The study used Pearson correlation to examine relationships between publication characteristics (first author and total authors) and Olympic medal counts.

Which Olympic years and medal-based results were found to correlate with publication metrics?

Medal counts from the 2016, 2012, and 2008 Olympic Games showed significant correlations with the number of first authors and total authors.

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