Transforming informal communities through discourse intervention:RioOnWatch, favelas and the 2016 Olympic Games [PDF]
, 2018 In August 2016, tens of thousands of journalists descended on Rio de Janeiro to cover the summer Olympic Games held in that city. While the majority covered the action on the track, many sought stories about the city itself, world famous for startling ...
Talbot, Adam
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Historical Development of the Olympic Movement [PDF]
Sport Mont, 2017 The Olympic Movement is a term that covers all areas related to the phenomenon of Olympism. From its creation, the Olympic Movement has had to follow and to respond to numerous challenges and changes of the 20th and 21st century.
Violeta Šiljak, Dejan Djurovic
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Talking about the 'rotten fruits' of Rio 2016:framing mega-event legacies [PDF]
, 2021 Legacy has become a watchword of hosting mega-events in recent years, used to justify massive spending and far-reaching urban transformations. However, academic studies of legacy outcomes suggest there is only limited evidence for the efficacy of using ...
Talbot, Adam
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Physical Culture and Sport: Studies and Research, 2019 Since the Ancient Greek athletics and through the revivals of the Olympic Movement and the first modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, countries, cities and governments have sought to take advantage by hosting Olympic Games and other sport events.
Dubinsky Yoav
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The ‘caged torch procession’: Celebrities, protesters and the 2008 Olympic torch relay in London, Paris and San Francisco [PDF]
, 2010 Along with the opening and closing ceremonies, one of the major non-sports events associated with the modern Olympic Games is the torch relay. Although initiated in 1936, the relay has been subject to relatively little academic scrutiny.
Brohm Jean-Marie +13 more
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Sustainable land use and green ecology: A case from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics venue legacy
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 According to the Olympic Charter, the construction of new permanent venues or infrastructure for the purposes of the organization of the Olympics shall only be considered on the basis of sustainable legacy plans.
Weihao Wang +3 more
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The effects of organizational structure and management on the Olympic Movement in South East Asian Countries. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019 The Olympic Games is a highly complex enterprise necessitating a large diversity and amount of resources. It also requires an assortment of committed stakeholders who are tasked with to bidding for an event, and ultimately planning and hosting the ...
Suriyan Somphong
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Une éducation à l’olympisme est-elle possible ?
Éducation et Socialisation, 2014 The Olympic educational concept, appeared in the 1970s, can answer the concern of the CIO to give itself a positive image by mobilizing the youth behind the eternal flame.
Christophe Maillard, Éric Monnin
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An Analytical Overview of the Rebirth of the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement
ACROSS, 2022 Collective mentality, due to specialized literature together with media, perpetuated the idea that the rebirth of the Olympic Games and the opening of the modern era in this respect is to be exclusively attributed to Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863 ...
Gheorghe BRANIȘTE, Dr
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Colonial Olympism: Puerto Rico and Jamaica’s Olympic Movement in Pan‐American Sport, 1930 to the 1950s [PDF]
, 2016 This paper examines how two Caribbean islands, Puerto Rico and Jamaica, developed ideas of national identity while negotiating political emancipation within two distinct, yet allied Anglophone empires. We can see this process through the Olympic movement
Antonio Sotomayor
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