Political Power in International Sport

The National Olympic Committee and Sports Confederation of Denmark has developed a metric to measure political power in international sports. The metric, called the Sports Power Index, is based on weights given to various positions in the sports world and summing the weights by nationality of the holder of the position. The assignment of weights is of course a judgment.

Here are the rankings for 2013:

Rank	Country	Points
1	United States	257
2	United Kingdom	189
3	France	183
4	Italy	182
5	Switzerland	173
6	Spain	173
7	Australia	172
8	Russia	171
9	Germany	151
10	China	141
11	Canada	130
12	South Korea	122
13	Egypt	99
14	Japan	96
15	New Zealand	92
16	Sweden	82
17	Brazil	81
18	Mexico	76
19	Argentina	71
20	Hungary	66
21	Finland	66
22	Turkey	65
23	Belgium	65
24	Netherlands	64
25	Thailand	55
26	Qatar	52
27	Poland	52
28	South Africa	48
29	Norway	48
30	Kuwait	47

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