Table 2.

Descriptive statistics and Pearson correlation matrix.

		Mean	S.D.	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
1.	Time zone difference	5.138	3.635	1
2.	easterly direction	0.378	0.486	0.273***	1
3.	Host?	0.053	0.225	−0.316***	−0.185**	1
4.	Host previous?	0.053	0.225	0.141**	−0.087	−0.056	1
5.	Host following?	0.053	0.225	0.128**	0.109*	−0.056	−0.056	1
6.	Distance (km)	7,342.575	4,915.073	0.871***	0.250***	−0.329***	0.133**	0.092	1
7.	Population (national)	120 million	260 million	0.066	−0.020	0.087	0.093	0.088	0.041	1
8.	GDP (national)	1,491 billion	27,161 billion	0.060	0.019	0.052	0.123***	0.030	0.067	0.343***	1
9.	Gold medals (total)	10.941	12.173	−0.029	−0.069	0.327***	0.183***	0.087	−0.021	0.456***	0.598***	1
10.	Silver medals (total)	10.128	9.185	−0.012	−0.044	0.237***	0.173***	0.079	−0.010	0.383***	0.602***	0.894***	1
11.	Bronze medals (total)	10.995	8.645	−0.015	−0.066	0.135**	0.146**	0.121**	0.005	0.342***	0.605***	0.811***	0.835***	1
12.	Total medals	32.064	28.468	−0.021	−0.064	0.257***	0.178***	0.100*	−0.011	0.422***	0.634***	0.962***	0.958***	0.920***	1

^*p < 0.05,

^**p < 0.01,

^***p < 0.001.