Sochi Winter Olympics
More than Sport: A Case Study on Sport Diplomacy Within the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
... 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 (Dubinsky, ...The ...
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Staging the Sochi Winter Olympics 2014 on Russia Today and BBC World News : From soft power to geopolitical crisis
... As the Olympics ended, BBCWN faced another dilemma. The Ukraine crisis was characterized throughout by confusion and uncertainty and unfolded as a series of questions which still lack undisputed answers: ‘How did ...
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Nataliya S. Kresova, Nataliya E. Prutz
... 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 economically strong ...
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Speed&Velocity
... In the Sestriera section (top) of the course in the Sochi Winter Olympics, the majority of the downhill skiers covered a distance of 76 meters in 2 seconds.What is the speed of th[r] ...
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The impact of the Vancouver Winter Olympics on population level physical activity and sport participation among Canadian children and adolescents: population based study
... The Canadian Physical Activity Levels Among Youth study (CANPLAY) is a children’s physical activity sur- veillance system, it uses objective measures of overall PA (with pedometers) and collects continuous data since ...
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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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Towards a One Planet Olympics
... Planet Olympics. The partners believe that the One Planet Olympics approach provides a critical ‘implementation’ link between the aspirations of Agenda 21 and the analysis and benchmarking facilitated by ...
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Kenya at the Olympics: 1956 - 1996
... It is recommended that Kenya should diversify her sports disciplines, improve her management of athletes, revive the declining sports disciplines such as hockey and boxing, encou r age a[r] ...
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The impact of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games on employment and wages in Georgia
... One could easily estimate a DD equation for population, but with the availability of the 2000 census numbers, it is quite apparent that the accuracy of county population estimates between the 1990 and 2000 census is ...
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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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Hydrocarbons in the suspended matter and the bottom sediments in different regions of the Black Sea Russian sector
... 18. Kondratiev, S.I., 2009. Izmeneniya v Gidrohimicheskom Sostave Vod Feodosiyskogo Zaliva v Rezul'tate Proniknoveniya Azovomorskih Vod Zimoy 2006-2007 [Changes in the Hydro- chemical Composition of Water of the ...
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Geopolitics, Genocide and the Olympic Games: Sochi 2014
... the Olympics as international recognition for the regime), we might ask who profits from the 2014 Olympics? While a number of scholars have noted that the “trickle-down” narratives of mega-events rarely ...
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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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Brazil, politics, the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup
... Since the re-democratization process in the late 1980s sports other than football have slowly attained greater prominence in the national political agenda resulting in the creation of a dedicated ministry under the ...
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FM 21 20 Physical Fitness Training pdf
... obstacle courses, types of conditioning, 8-2 through 8-6 confidence, 8-6 through 8-10 safety precautions for using, 8-1, 2 olympics; see unit olympics orienteering, 9-13 through 9-16 ove[r] ...
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An analysis of country medal shares in individual sports at the Olympics
... percentage points higher than other countries” [controlling for population, per capita GDP and host status]. Our data relate to the post-Soviet era. We divide the group of countries which were once communist according to ...
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Evgeniya V. Vidishcheva, Marina Gunare
... In journalistic literature authors often note about the cost of training procedures and uniforms for volunteers. For example, the standard set for volunteer at the Olympic games 2014 in Sochi cost about 28 ...
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Gay Games of Gay Olympics? Implications for Lesbian Inclusion
... Gay Games or Gay Olympics? ications for B Y H E L E N J E F F E R S O N L E N S K Y J Depuis 1982 les Jeuxgais ont iti organisis par des lesbiennes et desgais comme un festivalsportifet lbccasion de s[.] ...
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An investigation of the performance of African nations in the 2012 London Olympics
... the Olympics very ...The Olympics forms an integral part of our sports agenda here in South Africa, and you can see the proof of this from the total number of medals we have won, which I’m sure is better ...
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Sustainability and the Olympics: The case of the 2016 Rio Summer Games
... The Olympics concentrate a large number of people in a confined space (one city or even specific areas within the city) over a relatively small period of time (two weeks), thus introducing inevitable hardship to ...
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