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Leading Indicators of De Cobertan The Founder of Modern Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2014 Reyadh A. Ismaeel
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Influence of Chronotype on Cycling Performance in Simulated 20‐km Time Trials—A Pilot Study
Journal of Sleep Research, EarlyView.Evening‐type athletes show improved cycling performance later in the day, whilst morning types peak earlier. These differences appear linked to variations in mental readiness and sleepiness, highlighting the importance of considering chronotype in performance planning.
Sabrina Forster +6 more
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Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We study the effect of royal status—a historically rooted legal privilege enjoyed by hereditary monarchs and their families—on human longevity, a proxy of individuals' health capital. We disentangle the effect of royal status that encompassed serving as heads of state from that of other royal family members and compare it to their contemporary
Alberto Batinti +2 more
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How to Win the Olympic Games – The Empirics of Key Success Factors of Olympic Bids [PDF]
This paper examines the probability of the success of city bid campaigns on the basis of the quantified factors of a total of 43 bids for the Summer Olympic Games between 1992 and 2012.
Arne Feddersen +2 more
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Women in the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games: An Analysis of Participation, Leadership, and Media Opportunities [PDF]
, 2010 This report is the third in the series that follows the progress of women in the Olympic and Paralympic movement. The report provides the most accurate, comprehensive, and up-to-date examination of the participation trends among female Olympic and ...
Alison Wrynn, Maureen Smith
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Mortality of Japanese Olympic athletes in 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2021 Taro Takeuchi +6 more
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries +2 more
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Stigma, self‐styling and ‘forced accents’ among English L2 speakers in Spain
World Englishes, EarlyView.Abstract This paper examines the relationship between shame, stigma and accent for non‐native English speakers in Spain. The low English competence of the Spanish population frequently constitutes a source of individual and collective stigma – which includes the apparent undesirability of Spanish‐sounding English.
Eva Codó, Carly Collins
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Doping: a challenge to the endocrinologist. A reappraisal in view of the Olympic Games of 2004 [PDF]
, 2003 Leonidas H. Duntas, Constantinos Parisis
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