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Body composition of elite Olympic combat sport athletes

European Journal of Sport Science, 2019
Physique traits of a range of elite athletes have been identified; however, few detailed investigations of Olympic combat sports (judo, wrestling, taekwondo and boxing) exist. This is surprising given the importance of body composition in weight category
Reid Reale, L. Burke, G. Cox, G. Slater
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The Olympic Games: A Critical Approach

, 2020
Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympic Games command public and media attention, while Olympic mythology and ritual obscure their underlying function as a profit-making ...
H. Lenskyj
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THE OLYMPIC GAMES AND THE OLYMPIC IDEAL

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1956
• The Olympic Games are of such a personal nature to the world that they can even override serious political differences between countries. Here is presented how athletic training, the forerunner of the games, had its beginning. In considering the trials and tribulations that befell the growth of gymnastic exercise, it will be seen that physicians are ...
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International Olympic Committee Olympic Prize

Journal of Applied Physiology, 1994
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), under the sponsorship of Parke- Davis, has created the IOC Olympic Prize to be awarded for outstanding research in human movement, physical exercise, and sports in the biological, medical, physical, or psychological sciences.
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Olympics watch [olympics media complex]

Engineering & Technology, 2010
SOME 6,000 officials will be required to adjudicate around 15,000 athletes in all events at the 2012 Olympic Games. But the largest single group at the London Olympiad will be the 20,000 broadcasters, journalists and photographers of the world's media. Without them, the readers, listeners and viewers will not share the elation of the victor, or marvel ...
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Equity Achieved? A Longitudinal Examination of Biological Sex Representation in the NBC Olympic Telecast (2000–2018)

Communication & Sport, 2019
This report focuses on (a) how National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) primetime Olympic telecasts have presented athletes competing as male and female, specifically in relation to the 2018 Pyeonchang Winter Olympic coverage and (b) how the Pyeongchang ...
A. Billings, James R. Angelini
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Action Sports, the Olympic Games, and the Opportunities and Challenges for Gender Equity: The Cases of Surfing and Skateboarding

Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 2018
Commentators have suggested that action sports have provided space for more progressive gendered power relations than many more traditional, institutionalized sex-segregated sports. However, as action sports become institutionalized via Olympic inclusion,
B. Wheaton, Holly Thorpe
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The Olympic Games' impact on South Korea's image

, 2019
This study tracked the change in South Korea's image due to hosting a mega event. Americans' perceptions of South Korea were measured before, during, and at four points in time after the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
J. Hahm, A. Tasci, Deborah Breiter Terry
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From Olympic administration to Olympic governance

Sport in Society, 2015
This articles describes three models which played a key role in the evolution of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all the organizations which contribute to the staging of the Olympic Games and constitute the Olympic System, from its beginnings in 1894 to the present day.
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The Olympic dentist

British Dental Journal, 2008
As the immediate excitement of an amazing 2008 Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing for team GB subsides, some are already looking towards the 2012 games. Dentist and medical team consultant for the 2012 games Dr Tony Clough has recently returned from the Beijing Olympics, where he got involved prematurely with this year's athletes, as Jonica Love ...
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