2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
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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More than Sport: A Case Study on Sport Diplomacy Within the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
... the Sochi Olympics, Russia was found guilty for a doping allegation that took away about 15 ...the Olympics to build lasting relationships with countries by being inclusive with them through their ...
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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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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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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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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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Terrorism, The Olympics and Sports: Recent Events and Concerns for the Future
... 1936 Olympics in Berlin, which was awarded to the city at least partly to bring Germany back into the international fold after World War 1, provided Adolf Hitler with an opportunity to showcase the Germany that he ...
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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 impact of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on employment and wages in Georgia
... the Olympics, Figures 2 and 3 present average employment indices and average per worker real wage indices for two groups of counties; VNV counties and non-VNV ...
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The 1940 Tokyo Games: The Missing Olympics: Japan, the Asian Olympics and the Olympic Movement
... Tokyo Olympics carried a double message: They were to advance modernisation and internationalisation on the one hand, but also to foster tradition and national pride on the ...
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Home advantage in the Winter Paralympic Games 1976–2014
... the Winter Paralympic ...the Winter Olympic Games. The results of the Winter Olympic Games were obtained from ...the Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games have been ...
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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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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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The Olympics and harm reduction?
... Dwain Chambers, a famous British 100 m runner, tested positive for THG (tetrahydrogestrinone) in 2003 and was banned from competition for 2 years. The British Olympic Association, on the basis of a bylaw, excluded him ...
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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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