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Evolution of the Olympic Movement: Adapting to Contemporary Global Challenges
Social SciencesThis paper explores the diverse impact of the Olympic Movement on society, emphasizing core values like ‘excellence’, ‘friendship’, and ‘respect’. Traditionally, the Olympic Movement actively promotes global sport through initiatives such as Olympic ...
Yannis Theodorakis +2 more
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Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy [PDF]
, 2012 London 2012 is the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to explicitly try and develop socioeconomic legacies for which success indicators are specified - the highest profile of which was to deliver a health legacy by getting two million more people more ...
Copeland, Robert +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
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Assessing the Olympics: Preliminary Economic Analysis of a Boston 2024 Games Impacts, Opportunities and Risks [PDF]
, 2015 The possibility of hosting the Summer Games is sparking significant debate in our community about the potential benefits, costs, and risks associated with hosting the Olympics.
Andrew Hall +4 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.The contested dynamics of slum gentrification in Rio de Janeiro came into focus during the brief period of relative peace brought by the pacification policy leading up to the 2016 Olympics. In this unprecedented moment, Rio's South Zone favela residents experienced a respite from the daily confrontations with police operations and drug trade violence ...
Angela Torresan
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there is no definition of grounds in general or a definition of grounds such as race or sex in particular in equality law. This article shows that in defining the
Shreya Atrey
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Nauka v Olimpijskom Sporte, 2016 The article presents the reminiscences about the first modern Olympic Games, which were held in 1986 in Athens, written by our outstanding compatriot A. D.
Алексей Бутовский
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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