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Royalty and the Olympic movement

Science in Olympic Sport, 2018
The Olympic Games of Ancient Greece had occupied a special place in the life of the Hellenes. The holding of the Olympics had a wide public resonance. The rulers of various polices actively supported these events and many of them were the participants and some the winners of the Games.
Maria Bulatova, Valentyna Iermolova
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Toward a knowledge-synthesis heuristic for sport leaders: the strategic leader synthesis model

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
Sport management leadership research has predominantly focused on leadership behaviours, particularly transformative leadership, without fully acknowledging the complex, multifaceted nature of leadership within the sports context.
John Cairney, Veronique Richard, David Legg, David Legg   +3 more
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L’idéalisation des Jeux Olympiques par la presse brésilienne (1896-1920)

Amerika, 2023
1913 marked Brazil's admission into the Olympic movement with the country's entry into the IOC. From then on, the country participated in international sports competitions, including the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp, before organizing the first regional
Marcelo Moraes e Silva, Cyril Polycarpe, Daniele Cristina Carqueijeiro de Medeiros, Evelise Amgarten Quitzau   +3 more
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Representations of sport in the revolutionary socialist press in Britain, 1988–2012 [PDF]

, 2013
This paper considers how sport presents a dualism to those on the far left of the political spectrum. A long-standing, passionate debate has existed on the contradictory role played by sport, polarised between those who reject it as a bourgeois ...
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Assembling a True “Olympic Gel” From over 16 000 Combinatorial DNA Rings

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Olympic gels are an elusive class of soft matter, consisting of molecular networks held together purely by mechanically interlocked rings. Their topological structure promises unique properties and functions, but their synthesis has proven notoriously difficult.
Sarah K. Speed, Yu‐Hsuan Peng, Azra Atabay, Krishna Gupta, Toni Müller, Carolin Fischer, Ilka M. Hermes, Jens‐Uwe Sommer, Michael Lang, Elisha Krieg   +9 more
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Olympism, the lost legacy in Thailand. [PDF]

African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019
The purpose of this study was to analyze the lost Olympics legacy in Thailand so as to be to consistent with the Olympic Movement. The International Olympic Committee: IOC was formed in 1894.
Suriyan Somphong, Issadee Kutintara, Komkrit Rattamanee   +2 more
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Augmented Cooper test: Biomechanical contributions to endurance performance

Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 2022
Running mechanics are modifiable with training and adopting an economical running technique can improve running economy and hence performance. While field measurement of running economy is cumbersome, running mechanics can be assessed accurately and ...
Salil Apte, Simone Troxler, Cyril Besson, Cyril Besson, Vincent Gremeaux, Vincent Gremeaux, Kamiar Aminian   +6 more
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Interactive Prompt‐Guided Robotic Grasping for Arbitrary Objects Based on Promptable Segment Anything Model and Force‐Closure Analysis

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
A laser pointer‐guided robotic grasping method for arbitrary objects based on promptable segment anything model and force‐closure analysis is presented. Grasp generation methods based on force‐closure analysis can calculate the optimal grasps for objects through their appearances. However, the limited visual perception ability makes robots difficult to
Yan Liu, Yaxin Liu, Ruiqing Han, Kai Zheng, Yufeng Yao, Ming Zhong   +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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CDIO project on MaViCo heat compress for tackwondo players [PDF]

, 2020
Taekwondo is a traditional Korean martial arts sport which is currently practiced by many countries around the world. As claimed by the International Olympics Committee (2015), this sport made its debut in 1988 as a demonstration of Olympic sport in ...
Abdullah Ahmed Ba Odhah, Ali, Abdulrahman Abdulaziz Al-Awadhi, Khaled, Bah, Aaisha Negeh, Mohamed Nasser,, Muhammad Iman Ikhwan   +3 more
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