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El artículo discurre sobre la popularidad nacional del voleibol en Brasil. El autor comenta sobre las competiciones de voleibol en los Juegos Panamericanos de 2007 en Brasil y los Juegos Olímpicos de 2016 en Río de Janeiro. También se considera la historia de competiciones de voleibol y el dominio de jugadores de Brasil.

Different circumstances raised fears that Guadalajara would fail to pull off this event. But the Games were a big success, and we projected a flattering image of Mexico. Now the adrenaline has subsided, and I'm left with the sensation that what Guadalajara organized was a piñata--shiny and eye-catching while it lasted, but ultimately fleeting. Other cities have used these events to build lasting infrastructure that meets real long-term needs. In our case, after the athletes left it was discovered that the Pan American Village had dumped raw sewage on the ground, and now that Village is being commercialized as Villa Bosque, an upscale residential area. Guadalajara is set amid landscapes that would make any world-class city envious. I'd love to see my adopted city picked up on the radar of urban cognoscenti, yet it seems determined to trash its most valuable assets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines the determinants of sporting success of different countries in the Pan-American Games during the 1959-1999 period. The data consists of a panel of participant countries, where the variable of interest corresponds to the number of medals obtained by each country in each of the Games. The empirical model assumes that international sporting success depends on the effort and resources devoted to this activity as well as resource endowment, including population size, GDP, infant mortality, the percentage of Afro-Americans in the population. A set of dummy variables identifying whether the country is a host of the competition or a neighbor country were also included. Since the number of medals a country wins will depend on the effort and resources of the other countries in competition, the econometric estimate must take into account the variance-covariance matrix of the correlation of errors among countries. The results show that population size and GDP are not significantly correlated with the number of medals obtained in Pan-American Games when unobservable effects are accounted for. These results would be consistent with the hypothesis that more than size or wealth of a country what really determine success in international sports competition is the investment made by countries in developing such activities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]