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Olympic Games: price of victory
This is a video from before the games that analyses the economics of winning gold. They were pretty spot on.
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Comment by Bandwidth on August 26, 2008 at 11:44pm -
As with all economic predictions they missed :-) and they missed by more that the margin for error. I bet they will have a justifying story
US 87 110 +26%
China 88 100 = +14%
Russia 79 72 -9% (closest guess)
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