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A forecast of the performance of China in the Beijing Olympic Games 2008 and the underlying performance management issues

Simon Shibli Sport Industry Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Hall Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, UK
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Jerry Bingham UK Sport, London, UKView further author information
Pages 272-292 | Published online: 11 Jul 2008

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Girish Ramchandani, Darryl Wilson, Robbie Millar & Becky Ashworth. (2023) New sports and no spectators: Japan’s performance at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Managing Sport and Leisure 28:3, pages 197-208.
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Henk Erik Meier & Michael Mutz. (2018) Political regimes and sport-related national pride: a cross-national analysis. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 10:3, pages 525-548.
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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 21:4, pages 181-202.
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Henk Erik Meier, Malte Jetzke, Amin Nagm & Cosima Uechtritz. (2019) Superior Sporting Performance in Athletics: Determinants and Sustainability. Social Science Quarterly.
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Darryl Wilson & Girish Ramchandani. (2017) Home advantage in the Winter Paralympic Games 1976–2014. Sport Sciences for Health 13:2, pages 355-363.
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Marc Theeboom, Dong Zhu & Jikkemien Vertonghen. (2016) ‘Wushu belongs to the world’. But the gold goes to China…: The international development of the Chinese martial arts. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 52:1, pages 3-23.
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Huang Chang Mei, Shen Wei Hua & Xiao Xiao Cong. (2012) Research on construction and application of the GM(1,1) forecast model of Olympics track and field achievements. Grey Systems: Theory and Application 2:2, pages 178-196.
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Veerle De Bosscher, Simon Shibli, Maarten van Bottenburg, Paul De Knop & Jasper Truyens. (2010) Developing a Method for Comparing the Elite Sport Systems and Policies of Nations: A Mixed Research Methods Approach. Journal of Sport Management 24:5, pages 567-600.
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