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Hint of a Universal Law for the Financial Gains of Competitive Sport Teams. The case of Tour de France cycle race

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This short note is intended as a "Letter to the Editor" Perspective in order that it serves as a contribution, in view of reaching the physics community caring about rare events and scaling laws and unexpected findings, on a domain of wide interest: sport and money. It is apparent from the data reported and discussed below that the scarcity of such data does not allow to recommend a complex elaboration of an agent based model, - at this time. In some sense, this also means that much data on sport activities is not necessarily given in terms of physics prone materials, but it could be, and would then attract much attention. Nevertheless the findings tie the data to well known scaling laws and physics processes. It is found that a simple scaling law describes the gains of teams in recent bicycle races, like the Tour de France. An analogous case, ranking teams in Formula 1 races, is shown in an Appendix

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  • Marcel Ausloos, 2017. "Hint of a Universal Law for the Financial Gains of Competitive Sport Teams. The case of Tour de France cycle race," Papers 1712.00130, arXiv.org.
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