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Informació i documentació en els Jocs Olímpics [PDF]

, 2010
Aquest treball té com a objectiu reflexionar sobre la informació i la documentació dels Jocs Olímpics des de tres perspectives. En primer lloc, el treball presenta l'entorn informatiu dels organitzadors d'events, els Comitès organitzadors dels JJ.OO (els
Halbwirth, Sue, Toohey, Kristine
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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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Effects of Soccer Training on Anthropometry, Body Composition, and Physical Fitness during a Soccer Season in Female Elite Young Athletes: A Prospective Cohort Study

Frontiers in Physiology, 2017
The objectives of this study were to (i) describe soccer training (e.g., volume, types), anthropometry, body composition, and physical fitness and (ii) compute associations between soccer training data and relative changes of anthropometry, body ...
Melanie Lesinski, Olaf Prieske, Norman Helm, Urs Granacher   +3 more
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International Sport in the Struggle for Political Cooperation [PDF]

, 2014
Political signifi cance of sport is usually bound with international rivalry and confl ict. However, sport tends to have a role in fostering international dialogue and cooperation as well.
Kobierecki, Michał Marcin
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The 1970 British Commonwealth Games: Scottish reactions to apartheid and sporting boycotts [PDF]

, 2017
The 1970 British Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh is widely thought to have been a barnstorming success and an excellent advertisement for Scotland. Recent research by the authors, however, shows that the event was a deeply politicized one: reflective of ...
McDowell, Matthew L., Skillen, Fiona
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Stories of success: Cultural narratives and personal stories of elite and professional athletes [PDF]

, 2012
Using a narrative methodology to explore the stories Olympic and elite athletes tell about success, we identified three alternatives to the dominant conception of success as the achievement of performance outcomes.
Crossley M.L., Csikszentmihalyi M., David Carless, Douglas K., Douglas K., Douglas K., Frank A.W., Hertz R., Kitrina Douglas, Lieblich A., McAdams D., McLeod J., Plummer K., Reissman C.K., Sparkes A.C., Sparkes A.C., Sparkes A.C., Spence D.   +17 more
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FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou, Richard Maaranen   +2 more
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Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Habitat Mapping: Survey report and classification of side scan sonar data from surveys HMPR-114-2004-02 and HMPR-116-2005-01. [PDF]

, 2006
The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary (OCNMS) continues to invest significant resources into seafloor mapping activities along Washington’s outer coast (Intelmann and Cochrane 2006; Intelmann et al. 2006; Intelmann 2006).
Cochrane, Guy R., Intelmann, Steven S.
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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source