Análise de desempenho de atletas de alto rendimento: uma avaliação acerca do legado intangível proporcionado aos países sede dos jogos olímpicos

Abstract

With a view to a quantitative evaluation proposal about the possible correlation between the performance of the host country athletes when receiving the Olympic games and their performance in the four subsequent editions of these games, the present study used descriptive statistics, normality test and Spearman’s correlation analysis, and allowed to observe that the time factor may have been more relevant than the investment factor, regarding the performance of these athletes considered high performance. Among other factors, it was observed that it was only after the third edition subsequent to the one in which each country hosted the games, in which the highest number of medals was observed, that a correlational stability trend was perceived. In this sense, it can be affirmed that the time factor is a necessary condition to create policies that profoundly impact the sports system of nations, as proposed by the related study results.