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London 2012 Olympic Games: Challenges Faced by Islamic Olympians Fasting for Ramadan [PDF]
, 2015 Fasting is a common practice among many religions in the world. In the ancient religions, fasting was observed as common religious practice associated with many religious festivals. Fasting was also observed in the Judaism and Christianity as part of the
Raj, R, Rashid, T
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Understanding the Sport-Nutrition Knowledge and Practices among Jordanian Olympic Preparation Program's Athletes and Coaches for TOKYO2020 Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2022 Adam Tawfiq Amawi +5 more
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New Directions for Student Leadership, Volume 2025, Issue 185, Page 107-113, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT Popular culture exists as an expression of cultural history. It speaks to who we are, what we aspire toward, and where our generation stands in relation to the major issues of the day. This article is a conversation about the myriad perspectives offered in this issue of New Directions for Student Leadership, exploring the contributions each ...
Kathleen Callahan, Sean Connable
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Bidding to host a major sports event: The Youth Olympic Games [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2020 In this studies the possible social and economic impacts on former host cities based on their experience of the major sports events. An assessment of the Socio-Economic profiles of bidding for the Youth Olympic Games, helping to create a competitive ...
Suriyan Somphong
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The Regeneration Games: Commodities, Gifts and the Economics of London 2012 [PDF]
, 2008 This paper considers contradictions between two concurrent and tacit conceptions of the Olympic ‘legacy’, setting out one conception that understands the games and their legacies as gifts alongside and as counterpoint to the prevailing discourse, which ...
Amin A. +40 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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PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games and athletes’ usage of ‘polyclinic’ medical services
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2019 Objective This paper aims to describe the medical service of two polyclinics of the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games and to analyse the injury and illness of athletes who visited the polyclinics during the oilympic period in order to provide some insight
Young-Hee Lee +7 more
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20 Years of Olympic Media Research: Trends and Future Directions
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2020 The Olympic Games is the largest multisport event in the world, regularly drawing global audiences in the billions to watch coverage of athletes from hundreds of nations.
Andrea N. Geurin, Michael L. Naraine
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, 2005 As host of the Olympic Games, China seeks to increase national economic and socialdevelopment and "display to the world a new image of China", and presents the Games as an opportunity to foster democracy, improve human rights and integrate China with the
Amy Tai, Elisabeth Wickeri, Ellen Payne
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Reputation and Mega-project Management: Lessons from Host Cities of the Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2013 Hosting the Olympic Games is not merely a sporting endeavor, but is an undertaking that is fraught with political, socio-cultural and economic pressures.
Randeree, Kasim
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