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May the blessed Man win: a critique of the categorical preference for natural talent over doping as proper origins of athletic ability [PDF]
, 2014 Doping scandals can reveal unresolved tensions between the meritocratic values of equal opportunity + reward for effort and the "talentocratic" love of hereditary privilege. Whence this special reverence for talent? We analyze the following arguments: (1)
Bonte, Pieter +2 more
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The olympic games and new sport, recreation and leisure spaces for the local community
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Sociologica, 2020 This article is an attempt to understand the changes caused by the organization of the Olympic Games. These changes are creating new places for sports, new recreational spaces and new challenges for the city.
Adam Omorczyk
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Türk Spor ve Egzersiz Dergisi, 2022 The aim of this study was to determine the awareness towards olympic concepts of national athletes who students in Dücze University Sport Sciences Faculty. The research is a descriptive research and phenomenological design has been used. In the research,
Mensur Pehlivan, Ömer Sivrikaya
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Unolympic Unionism or Apocryphal Olympism? Ideas for future anti-doping governance
Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Kinanthropologica, 2015 This article aims to present ideas for future anti-doping governance by considering the relative merits of trade union-based athlete representation (ATU) as opposed to the current system of so-called athletes’ commissions or athletes’ committees (AC). It
Jacob Kornbeck
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‘The Day the Flame Came to Town’: The Olympic flame, symbol, community and commodification [PDF]
, 2015 Debates regarding the Olympic Flame Relay oscillate between questions concerning the symbolic value of the Relay and the commodified nature of the Games more generally.
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Molecular Genetics &Genomic Medicine, Volume 7, Issue 11, November 2019., 2019 We reported epidermolytic palmoplantar keratoderma (EPPK) with a novel symptom of palmar constriction. The p.L164P mutation of KRT9 was functional influencing and altered the expression of multiple cytokeratins. The genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity of EPPK with KRT9 mutations were summarized by literature review.
Xiaoliang Liu +4 more
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Sports, society and collective identity in contemporary Catalonia [PDF]
Catalan Historical Review, 2014 In Catalonia, the introduction of modern sports in the late 19th century was considered tantamount to a quest to modernise society. Clubs organised by civil society played a key role in consolidating sports as both practice and entertainment, and in ...
Carles Santacana
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European Journal of Sport Science, Volume 18, Issue 5, Page 722-730, June 2018., 2018 Abstract On the basis of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), we assess if and how the youth in the communities of the YOG host cities have been influenced concerning their perception of the Olympic values (OV) and the Olympic movement (OM). Special attention of the study is paid to the analysis of intervention mechanisms which the local youth underwent (e.g.
Martin Schnitzer +4 more
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, 2007 We present an agent-oriented middle-tier architecture deployed during the realisation of the Athens 2004 Olympics results internet broadcasting. The system involved the online processing of messages (XML in nature) and their publishing to the www.athens2004.com internet site.
Skarmeas, N. +5 more
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