2016 Summer Olympic Games
Evaluation of spine MRIs in athletes participating in the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games
... the 2016 Summer Olym- pics in Rio de Janeiro, with approximately 1 athlete per 200 demonstrating moderate to severe spinal ...the Olympic sports rely on strength, speed, force, bending and ...
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The risk of dengue for non-immune foreign visitors to the 2016 summer olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
... Methods: A mathematical model to calculate the risk of developing dengue for foreign tourists attending the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 is proposed. A system of differential equation ...
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Kinematics of Usain Bolts 100 m performance: A Review
... 9 Olympic gold medals viz, 3 gold medals at 2008 summer Olympic games in Beijing, 3 gold medals at 2012 summer Olympic games in London and 3 gold medals at 2016 ...
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Sustainability and the Olympics: The case of the 2016 Rio Summer Games
... the Games take ...past Games, but also encourages the OCOGs to form partnerships with government authorities, environmental agencies, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Olympic ...
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Preventing heat illness in the anticipated hot climate of the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games
... 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Tokyo, all participants, including the athletes, staff, and spectators, will need to familiarize themselves with Tokyo ’ s hot and humid summer ...three Summer ...
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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 Summer 2016 Olympics, marking a historic moment for the Olympics, and for South ...the Summer Olympic Games. The reaction from the Rio Olympic Organising Committee and from ...
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Health, Physical Activity and the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games: Legacy or Fallacy?
... the summer of 2010—“Women’s Hockey Champions Trophy in Nottingham”, “Triathlon World Championships Series” in Hyde Park, London, and “IRB Women’s Rugby World Cup in Guildford and Twickenham”, could influence ...
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Sustainability and the Olympics: The case of the 2016 Rio Summer Games
... The Olympic Games held in Vancouver in 2010 were a leading example of how respect of and commitment to the environment were embraced and integrated into ...The Olympic Village and the neighbourhood ...
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Zika Virus Screening in the Kenyan Olympic Team Attending the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil
... The 2016 Summer Olympics was scheduled from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, ...the Olympic games would fa- cilitate the spread of the virus on return of the teams to their ...
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Towards a Model of Olympic Social Capital: Theory and Early Evidence
... the Olympic context. They found that the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) may be an effective instrument to shift perceptions of Olympic val- ues (see also Schnitzer et ...by Olympic values ...
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Olympic Medals, Economy, Geography and Politics from Sydney to Rio
... been studied at least since Ball’s 1972 paper. Factors claimed to have an impact on the number of medals won include economic performance, political situation, geographic location, climate and women empowerment. While ...
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The Olympic Games as a cultural event
... the Olympic Games having taken place dates from 776 BC and the location was ...great Games. The first Games were held in honor of the god ...The Games were the greatest sports event of ...
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Pursuing Reinstatement to the Olympic Games: An Examination of the International Softball Federation’s Association with the Olympic Movement
... abbreviations and end with dot org. For example, www.iaaf.org is the Web domain for International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), www.fivb.org for International Volleyball Federation (FIVB), www.ibaf.org for ...
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Women's sports coverage: online images of the 2008 Olympic Games
... Hardin et al (2002) reported a similar result in US newspaper coverage of the 2000 Olympics. The overall proportion of photographs favoured men (52 per cent versus 48 per cent), in line with the demographics for the US ...
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Return of the eastern giant: An investigation of the participation of the People's Republic of China in the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games.
... Why did the People's Republic of China choose the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympic Games instead of the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympic Games as the debut of the Chinese athletes on the glob[r] ...
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Before The World Was Quiet: Ronald Reagan, Cold War Foreign Policy, And The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Summer Games
... 1980 Olympic Summer Games, the city of Los Angeles focused on the 1984 ...1984 Games known to the members of the ...States Olympic Committee received luke warm interest – at best – from ...
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Smiling assassins, brides to be and super mums: The importance of gender and celebrity in media framing of female athletes at the 2016 Olympic Games
... (Newsworks, 2016; Ponsford, ...August 2016, to cover the two week period of the Games and one week before and after the event, using the athletes’ names as search ...
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Grey model weighting method based large scale sports competitions to urban tourism impacts evaluation research
... Large-scale sports events will drive urban or even national economy rapidly development, which is a general agreement. The paper takes Beijing Olympic Games as an example; it studies on large-scale sports ...
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Women athletes in the Olympic Games
... International Olympic Committee and publications of various ...the Olympic Games, it is now expected that in the next editions of the Games the percentage of sport events and athletes, men and ...
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Going for gold : New Zealand women's elite rugby sevens in a new Olympic era : a thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Sport and Exericse at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... Many studies examining sport mega-event events have discussed a host of different aspects linked to the interaction between global processes and society. These include: (1) the media coverage given to mega-events (Baker ...
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