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Looking for a Level Playing Field
Im fascinated by the question of which countries do best in which races. I guess this is partly driven by the British love of the underdog, so any unexpected success is to be applauded. Come on China (as long as you don beat the GBR runners).So its time to look…
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at the numbers. Take all individual WOC finals since 2001 (when the Sprint race was introduced). Allocate 50 points to the winner, 49 for second and so on for all finishers. Add up the scores for each country. Then to allow for the fact that I have included the 2008 Sprint race result already, normalise by looking at percentage of the total number of points scored. What do you get and what does it mean?What you get is the table at the bottom of this post. What it means is much more open to question but let me offer some…
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