2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
More than Sport: A Case Study on Sport Diplomacy Within the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
... the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics was successful in collecting global ...the Olympics not only as a public diplomacy tool, but also a chance to enhance their cultural recognition ...
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Nataliya S. Kresova, Nataliya E. Prutz
... the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics have proved to be a symbol of Russia's economic ...the Winter Olympics have been held in Sochi is the evidence that Russia as an ...
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Olympic Violence: Memory, Colonialism, and the Politics of Place
... Games: Sochi 2014” is a thought provoking, critical, and timely commentary on the forthcoming Winter Olympics, which will be held in Sochi, Russia (in the northwestern part of the ...
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Geopolitics, Genocide and the Olympic Games: Sochi 2014
... Ancient Olympics (beginning in 776 BC) were only made possible due to a truce (ekecheiria in Greek, which means “holding back one’s hands”) being announced for seven days before until seven days after each ...
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No change in the Russian Caucasus. The Winter Olympics amid a local war. OSW Study 47/2014
... from the Caucasus in Moscow and other cities. A potential attack during the Sochi Olympics would be an extreme case, a blow to the prestige of Russia and of President Putin personally. If not for the real ...
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Sochi 2014 : ecology, Sochi-ites 0--Russian civil society 1?
... Committee then tried to turn in this on its head, claiming this “problem” to be an advantage, because in Sochi the most modern Olympic infrastructure could be built from scratch. 71 Members of the IOC seemed to ...
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The 2014 Olympic Logo.docx
... the 2014 underneath was part of the web address and that it was actually numbers, not just inverted ...“winter” Olympics, but why should winter games mean a limited colour palette? The ...
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Brazil, politics, the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup
... the Winter Olympic Games by Sochi (2014) and the FIFA World Cup by Russia (2018), as well as the Brazilian involvement in staging the Pan-American Games (2007), the FIFA World Cup (2014) and ...
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Staging the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 on Russia Today and BBC World News : From soft power to geopolitical crisis
... The Olympics clearly offer unrivalled opportunities for the host nation to mobilise its international broadcasting for soft power effects (Price and Dayan ...
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Place marketing and mega events: intentions and short term results of nation branding of Russia through the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games
... the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia was indeed a partial attempt at nation ...The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics was staged not only to showcase athletic ...
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Home advantage in the Winter Paralympic Games 1976–2014
... the Winter Paralympic ...the Winter Paralympic Games from 1976 to ...and 2014, the programme of the Winter Paralympic Games has incorporated six different sports: para alpine skiing ...
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The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
... The book is well-written, with charts, cartoons, and black and white photographs. Yet, it is not clear why the author, or the editor, decided to present the chapters as independent essays, with their own lists of ...
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The impact of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on employment and wages in Georgia
... In this framework, the location of the Olympic impact is controlled for by a dummy variable indicating whether the county is a VNV county, and the time is controlled for by a dummy variable indicating whether the ...
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Terrorism, The Olympics and Sports: Recent Events and Concerns for the Future
... The Olympics in general is likely to be well protected but it still represents an attractive target for terrorists who would aim to benefit from the global exposure of any attack and to disrupt the host country’s ...
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The portrayal of Olympic athletes defies traditional gender stereotypes: A content analysis of the 2018 Winter Olympics news outlets
... With no significant association found, this study shows that a difference between the stereotypic perceptions of non-traditional women, such as athletes, compared to the stereotypic perceptions of men, or male athletes ...
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Reflexivity in Criminological Research
... This is a draft pre publication version of Lumsden, K and Winter, A (2014) ‘Reflexivity in Criminological Research’ In K Lumsden and A Winter (eds) Reflexivity in Criminological Research Experiences w[.] ...
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Predicting the Medal Wins by Country at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games: An Econometrics Approach
... the Olympics are about individual athletes striving to do their best, which means that our approach will not be ...2002 Winter Olympics, Janica Kostelic of Croatia won 3 gold medals and 1 silver ...
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The Olympics and harm reduction?
... London Olympics anti-doping lab made the headlines worldwide, accompanied by strong anti-doping messages for prospect- ive Olympians and illustrated by an iconic photograph depicting the laboratory’ s head showing ...
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The Ombudsman's casebook, issue 2, winter 2014/15
... A woman complained to the Ombudsman about the decision of Student Universal Support Ireland SUSI to refuse her application for a third level grant and the subsequent decision by the Stud[r] ...
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Measuring competition in the Olympic Winter Games 1992–2014 using economic indices
... pre-Sochi 2014 speed skating qualification competitions, the outcome indicates that the IOC did not manage to legislate effectively against the Netherlands’ predictable domination at the 2014 Games ...
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