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ROMANIA AND THE ROMANIAN ATHLETES AT THE SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES

Sport şi Societate, 2017
The Olympic Games represent the concrete manifestation of the Olympism ideology, but also the greatest sports event in the world. The purpose of this paper is to present the evolution of Romania in The Summer Olympic Games.
Petrea R.G., Onose I.
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Sino‐Mexican Encounters Before the ‘Diplomatic Opening’: Exhibition Diplomacy and Grassroots Friendship in the 1960s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the 1960s, Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) embraced Chinese overtures for a commercial opening as consistent with its anti‐imperialist posture, thereby foreshadowing the diplomatic opening to China in 1972. Yet this professed ideological pluralism was eclipsed by an underlying allegiance to the United States' anti ...
YIXIN TIAN
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Olympic Games Impact (OGI) Study for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games: Baseline Report

, 2007
This report is submitted by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in partial fulfillment of VANOC’s role in implementing the Olympic Games Impact ...
VANOC
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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 Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
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Branding the Games: Commercialism and the Olympic City

, 2009
This chapter examines the role of branding and sponsorship in the Olympic games - with particular reference to the urban. The chapter identifies tensions between Olympic values, branding activities and a projected legacy.
MacRury, Iain
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Participation and Performance at the London 2012 Olympics [PDF]

, 2001
The current paper predicts the medal tally for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The forecast procedure consists of analyzing participation and success at the country level of the three most recent editions of the Olympic Summer Games. Potential explanatory
Sterken, Elmer; id_orcid, Kuper, Gerard H.,, Sterken, Elmer,, Kuper, Gerard H., Kuper, Gerard H.; id_orcid, Kuper, Gerard, Sterken, Elmer, Kuper, Gerard; id_orcid   +7 more
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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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