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This is a video from before the games that analyses the economics of winning gold. They were pretty spot on.

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Tags: gold., olympics
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Bandwidth Comment by Bandwidth on 26 August 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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