2008 Olympic Games in Beijing
Beijing residents' perceptions and attitudes towards the 2008 Olympic Games and future tourism development
... open-ended questions (See Appendix 1). The first part of the questionnaire was a series of close-ended Likert scale questions. The researcher used prewritten response categories, which could reduce the respondents’ ...
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The Question of Legacy and the 2008 Olympic Games: An Exploration of Post-Games Utilization of Olympic Sport Venues in Beijing
... national shooting competitions in the venue. By holding the competition events, the Center could earn revenue for its own use. Operation costs for holding the events was not a consideration. They were covered by the ...
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A Notable Endeavor: The Nature and Significance of Olympic Education in the Pre-and Post-Period of Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games
... “Mini Olympic Games” at Yangfangdian Central Primary School by the grass-roots team, the Chinese government started to pay attention on this mandate requiring by the ...Beijing’s Olympic education ...
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Kinematics of Usain Bolts 100 m performance: A Review
... The data retrieved from the sources presented in Table 1, shows the Bolt’s statistics of 100 m performance since 2008. The table reveals that Bolt’s has given his best performance sub 9.70 s in 2008 ...
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Swifter, higher, stronger? Online media representations of gender during the 2008 Olympic Games
... generally contained factual information about injuries or physical characteristics pertinent to the athlete‘s discipline. Exceptions included the ABC‘s preoccupation with triathlete Emma Snowsill‘s physique. Although ...
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BIG SPORTING EVENTS- A BOON OR A CURSE
... Once Olympic 2008 was over there was a shocking silence there, in the infrastructure development front and as demand for material, manpower, energy and other things got a brake, we observed that there was a ...
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Women's sports coverage: online images of the 2008 Olympic Games
... the 2008 Olympic ...and Beijing Olympics (Tuggle & Davis, 2009; Tuggle et ...from 2008 showing substantial differences on ABC News Online in the representation of one gender over another ...
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Ground-Based Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases in Beijing during the Olympic Games
... is a critical index used to characterize the performance of an FTS and has an important influence on the accuracy of trace gases retrieval. The ILS of B3M-IR is determined by measuring the transmission spectra of a 1000 ...
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Is the aerobic power a delimitating factor for performance on canoe slalom? An analysis of Olympic Slovak canoe slalom medalists and non-Olympics since Beijing 2008 to Rio 2016
... between Olympic medallist and the rest of the national team in present study of Whitewater ...two Olympic Games enabled maximum 1 boat per event from the same ...potential Olympic nominees ...
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Mediating Cosmopolitanism: Crafting an Allegorical Imperative through Beijing 2008
... in Beijing 2008 always figures in the context of the Olympic ...International Olympic Committee and the United Nations for sports-related ...of Olympic venues harboured discord and ...
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Nataliya S. Kresova, Nataliya E. Prutz
... the Olympic venues, and another $ 44 billion was spent to develop the Krasnodar region, including Sochi and Krasnaya ...Winter Games in Vancouver – $ 6.4 billion and the 2008 Olympics in ...
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Narratives of the nation in the Olympic opening ceremonies: comparative analysis of Beijing 2008 and London 2012
... Angeles Olympic Games of 1984 was a watershed in the staging of the mega-sports event, providing spectacular opening and closing ceremonies to assert the superiority of the Western, capitalist, free- ...
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Ground-based Measurements of Atmospheric Trace Gases in Beijing during the Olympic Games
... is a critical index used to characterize the performance of an FTS and has an important influence on the accuracy of trace gases retrieval. The ILS of B3M-IR is determined by measuring the transmission spectra of a 1000 ...
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Labor rights & the Beijing Olympic Games 2008: The effects of the campaigns of Amnesty International and Play Fair 2008
... The spiral theory has also been tested to track the steps of norm internalization of climate policy in China. Schroeder concluded that the transnational advocacy network did not use pressuring strategies to influ- ence ...
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The effects of organising committees’ stakeholder incentives on the legacy outcomes of the Beijing 2008, London 2012, and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games
... the Olympic Games, as well as the incentives that come with partaking in the run up and the legacy of the event (Grabher and Thiel 2015, ...the Olympic movement and a sense of pride swept through the ...
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Grey model weighting method based large scale sports competitions to urban tourism impacts evaluation research
... Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 has already passed nearly five years, for long-term impacts that Beijing Olympic Games brought into China and world, the paper on the basis ...
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Ambient air pollution and adverse birth outcomes: a natural experiment study
... The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games present an opportunity to con- duct a natural ...experiment. Beijing, one of the largest metropolises in the world with a population of over 15 million ...
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Olympism, Ethics and The Rio 2016 Olympic Games Preparations: An Ethical Analysis
... (Butler, 2008, ...(Butler, 2008, ...the Olympic Games and the human rights surrounding ...the Olympic Movement cannot be placed above the working class and residents of Rio de ...the ...
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Based on the effects of retarding growth model factors of shot put technique development
... statistics Olympic Games shot performance data from year 1896 to 2004, use Matlab drawing performance general directions, get conclusions that Olympic Games shot event performance growth ...
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Voices of Discontent: Avery Brundage and the IOC's Dilemma of South Africa's Olympic Participation, 1956-1968
... Brundage’s and the IOC’s trust in SANOC to resolve the racial issue was not necessarily violated in their eyes because it was interpreted that SANOC had done its best to resolve the complicated situation. On the other ...
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