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The most gender-equal Olympics? A corpus-assisted keywords analysis of Italian press coverage of male and female athletes in Paris 2024

open access: yesRevista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were the most gender-equal in athlete participation. This article analyzes Italian media coverage to assess the representation of male and female athletes, focusing on narrative equality and gender biases.
Simona Frabotta, Javier Fernández-Cruz
doaj   +1 more source

Olympic rings of steel: Constructing security for 2012 and beyond [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Academic and political commentators have commonly sought to understand the Olympics as a cultural dynamic, a "spectacle" that motivates certain actors to project their relative interests in localized spaces and as well on a global scale (Hiller
Coaffee, J, Fussey, P
core   +1 more source

Post-Olympic anticlimax [PDF]

open access: yesObstetric Medicine, 2012
We are writing this in the week after the London 2012 Olympics. Even the most cynical of Brits were forced to join in the infectious and friendly atmosphere that impressed all visitors to a city not normally known for its welcoming and helpful inhabitants. The unifying power of sport that the world witnessed was impressive.
Catherine, Nelson-Piercy, Sandra, Lowe
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High Relative Accuracy Computations With Covariance Matrices of Order Statistics

open access: yesMathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In many statistical applications, numerical computations with covariance matrices need to be performed. The error made when performing such numerical computations increases with the condition number of the covariance matrix, which is related to the number of variables and the strength of the correlation between the variables. In a recent work,
Juan Baz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Representation of Athletes in Finnish and Swedish Tabloids

open access: yesNordicom Review, 2016
The study examines quantitatively and qualitatively gender representation in Finnish and Swedish tabloids’ sports coverage during Athens 2004 summer and Turin 2006 winter Olympics.
Laine Antti
doaj   +1 more source

Play Fair at the Olympics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
CCC_playfairovertimeolympicreporteng.pdf: 253 downloads, before Oct.
Clean Clothes Campaign
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Reflections on Comparative Teaching in Public Administration

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article integrates our scholarly experience of teaching comparative public administration. In doing so, we offer a unique perspective as the co‐authors carry several diverse attributes, among them their countries of origin, current country in which they are teaching, and their academic experience.
Kim Moloney   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transforming informal communities through discourse intervention:RioOnWatch, favelas and the 2016 Olympic Games [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Association of arthritis and total joint arthroplasty with self‐reported function in former professional American‐style football players

open access: yesPM&R, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Participation in American‐style football (ASF) results in trauma‐related concerns including joint injuries. Limited work has described arthritis and knee and hip total joint arthroplasty (TJA) in this population. The association of these conditions to pain interference and physical and mental function has not been well described ...
Michelle M. Bruneau   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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