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Madrid 2012 project evaluation under a market perspective: An exploration of possibilities and opportunities for improvement

Management Letters/Cuadernos de Gestión, 2004
Madrid has never been so close to the organization of the Olympic Games since April 24, 1966 when Madrid lose against Munich to organize the Olympic Games of 1972.
RICARDO GIMENO NOGUÉS, RUTH MATEOS DE CABO   +1 more
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Sports Injury and Physiotherapy Services in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games: Considerations and Potential Recommendations for Future Paralympics

Physical Therapy Korea, 2022
Background: The PyeongChang 2018 Winter Paralympic Games (WPG) being one of the most successful Paralympic Games (PG) in modern athletic world history, hosted the largest number of elite athletes representing 49 National Paralympic Committees (NPCs ...
Haeun Park, Joon Young Chang, Jongseok Hwang, Young Hee Lee, Joshua (Sung) Hyun You   +4 more
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The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the 20th century: an approach based on the texts of the print media

Revista de Estudios Brasileños, 2018
This article seeks to introduce a potential field of historical and media research on the “first moments” of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro (from 1890 to 1919).
Ronaldo HELAL, Fausto AMARO
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Media Narratives on the relation between body and olympic games in the 1890s and 1900s

Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença, 2016
The olympic games featured themselves to the inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro of the 1890s and 1900s as something beyond sport. Circus, theater and cinema were cultural spaces where those events could be enjoyed, as the newspapers of the time announced. The
Fausto Amaro (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ – Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil)
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Olympic Values and Doping in Sport

Baltic Journal of Sport and Health Sciences
Background: This study examines the issue of Olympic values and doping in sport. The first aim of this pilot study was to explore athletes’ and coaches’ perceptions of the values associated with the Olympic Games and their attitudes towards doping.
Saulius Šukys, Farruh S. Ahmedov , Abdulhamid Kholtura ugli Buriyev   +2 more
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Olympic games

, 2018
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Post-event leverage and Olympic legacy: A strategic framework for the development of sport and cultural tourism in post-Olympic Athens [PDF]

, 2013
Although the hosting of the 2004 Olympics in Athens constituted a unique opportunity for the diversification and enrichment of Athens’ (and Greece’s) tourism product, the evident lack of coordination between commercial providers and public governing ...
Boukas, N, Ziakas, V
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Application of serious games to sport, health and exercise [PDF]

, 2011
Use of interactive entertainment has been exponentially expanded since the last decade. Throughout this 10+ year evolution there has been a concern about turning entertainment properties into serious applications, a.k.a "Serious Games". In this article
Haake, Steve, Heller, B W, Kadle, V, Kodagoda, M, Senevirathne, S G, Senior, T   +5 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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Preparing athletes and teams for the Olympic Games: experiences and lessons learned from the world's best sport psychologists [PDF]

, 2015
As part of an increased effort to understand the most effective ways to psychologically prepare athletes and teams for Olympic competition, a number of sport psychology consultants have offered best-practice insights into working in this context.
American Psychological Association, Anderson A. G., Galloway S. M., Gould D., Gould D., Halliwell W., Hodge K., Huang C., May J. R., Murphy S. M., Orlick T., Partington J., Patton M., Roberts G. C., Schinke R., Schinke R. J., Shiang J.   +16 more
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