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The Economic Journal, 2009 Why should countries offer to host costly ‘mega-events’ such as the Olympic Games? We show that hosting a mega-event increases exports. This effect is statistically robust, permanent and large; trade is over 20% higher for host countries. Interestingly, unsuccessful bids to host the Olympics have a similar impact on exports.
Andrew K. Rose, Mark M. Spiegel
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Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2012 Every four years, the Olympic Games plays host to competitors who have built on their natural talent by training for many years to become the best in their chosen discipline. Similar spirit and endeavour can be found throughout the microbial world, in which every day is a competition to survive and thrive.
Youle, M +15 more
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L’Olympisme des femmes face à l’antiféminisme sportif (1921-1936)
Genre & HistoireIn 1928, the Amsterdam Olympic Games hosted the first athletics events for women. This commencement was immediately followed by a setback, as the IOC declared itself opposed to races over 100 m for women.
Florys Castan-Vicente
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OLYMPIC PHENOMENON AS A COMPONENT OF EDUCATION [PDF]
Annals of the “Ştefan cel Mare” University: Physical Education and Sport Section - The Science and Art of Movement, 2019 The major and extensive changes taking place today as a result of globalization have also, unavoidably, affected the educational process. Many people are talking more often about the need to change something in the educational process and to ...
Moroşan Larionescu Virgil
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Les femmes et les olympismes alternatifs durant l’entre-deux-guerres
Genre & HistoireThis article proposes a comparative analysis of the place of women in alternative Olympisms during the inter-war period. Jewish, workers’ and women’s sports movements shared a common opposition to the IOC and they organized sports competitions inspired ...
Clément Dumas
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Creating a corporate anti-doping culture: Understanding the role of sport governing bodies [PDF]
, 2006 The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) vision to promote a new moral order in sport and new forms of organisation and management through the World Anti Doping code (WADC) amount to creating a new corporate culture. WADC’s emphasis on policy implementation
Girginov, V
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Building bridges, not walls: The uniting role of sports among people and countries [PDF]
, 2019 La complejidad del deporte y la obtención de los mejores resultados se muestran cada vez más relacionados con la revolución tecnológica e ideológica, en la que el mundo ha estado en las últimas décadas.
Ceraj, Saša
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STUDIU PRIVIND NECESITATEA INTENSIFICĂRII ACŢIUNILOR DE EDUCAŢIE OLIMPICĂ ÎN ŞCOLI
Sport şi Societate, 2014 In 1997, the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.) recommended to all governments to introduce, together with the national Olympic committees, Olympism in schools.
Ababei Catalina
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Educational values of sport and olympism in the opinion of students and undergraduates
Spor Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2017 Knowledge on thesubject of values preferred by individuals and groups is cognitivelyinteresting and socially useful. Traditional and universal values seem to losecompetition with values preferred in today’s commercialised and virtual word.Thus, education
Małgorzata Tomecka
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Obstetric 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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