The Tokyo Olympics demonstrated the incredible talent and dedication that elite sportspeople must show to reach the top of their field. The Professional Athlete Index seeks to reveal the odds of reaching this elite by focusing only on male athletes participating at the highest level of their sport. The index reveals two things: which countries produce the highest percentage of top tier professionals in each sport; and the countries in which people have the lowest odds of being a top tier athlete in each sport. The study produced two datasets in order to capture both larger countries, which generally provide a greater share of all athletes, and smaller countries, where people often have lower odds of being professionals.
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