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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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My Olympic Experience [PDF]

, 2014
Nadine (Ingersoll) Kincaid \u2776 shares stories of her experience serving as a volunteer at four Olympic ...
Kincaid, Nadine Ingersoll, \u2776
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Views of Vidigal: negotiating opportunities and risks in a gentrifying favela in Rio de Janeiro Favela avec vue : négocier opportunités et risques dans un quartier en voie de gentrification à Rio de Janeiro

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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Olympic participation and performance since 1896 [PDF]

We analyze the decision to participate and performance at the Modern Olympic Summer Games at the country level. We use an unbalanced panel of 118 countries over all 24 editions of the Summer Games since 1896.
Kuper, Gerard, Sterken, Elmer
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Risk management strategies for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games: The Beijing scheme

Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2022
Jie Liu, Jing Lou, Yong Wang, Jinjun Zhang   +3 more
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Comparative Analysis of Injury and Illness Rates Among Team USA Athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games

Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
Background: Previous research has reported higher rates of both injury and illness among Paralympic athletes compared with Olympic athletes during the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, but no studies have directly compared injury and illness incidence
Eric G. Post PhD, Malia G. Cali MD, Stephanie C. Clark DO, Kayle E. Noble-Taylor DO, David M. Robinson MD, Ike B. Hasley MD, Emily G. Larson MD, April L. McPherson PhD, Travis Anderson PhD, Jonathan T. Finnoff DO, William M. Adams PhD   +10 more
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Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered

Southern Spaces, 2006
This gateway looks back at Atlanta's Olympic Games ten years after the 1996 Opening Ceremony. Many of the links featured have become internet historic sites, not updated since the Olympic flame was extinguished.
S. Zebulon Baker
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THE AESTHETICS OF URBAN METABOLISM: Landscape, Design and the Politics of In/Visibility

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we chart the evolving aesthetic contours of urban metabolism across London, focusing on the River Lea and Thamesmead to the north and south of the River Thames, respectively. We begin in the nineteenth century, when these two sites formed critical nodes within a new sewerage system that relegated the city’s circulatory flows ...
Ben Platt, Zuhri James
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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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ANTIČKE OLIMPIJSKE IGRE I MODERNI OLIMPIZAM [PDF]

Sport Mont, 2010
The Olympic Games represent one of the most important phenomena, not only in the field of sports, but in almost all spheres of human activity for a long time.
Kosta Goranović, Duško Bjelica
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