the Olympics
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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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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An analysis of country medal shares in individual sports at the Olympics
... Studying the determinants of medal outcomes is worthwhile since, typically, welfare appears to be enhanced in a country when it achieves Olympic success. Kavetsos & Szymanski (2010) used results from periodic ...
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Impassioned Objects And Seething Absences: The Olympics In Canada, National Identity and Consumer Culture
... Richard Gareau wrote a memo in 1973 arguing that legal protection of COJO’s licensable rights would allow it to “take advantage of the tremendous prestige associated with the 1976 Olympic Games in order to realize the ...
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Consuming the Olympics: the fan, the rights holder and the law
... The cities are in it for reconstruction and global positioning, chasing world-wide markets; the corporations are in it for global profile and unprecedented levels and scales of television exposure; the consumers are in ...
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Brazil, politics, the Olympics and the FIFA World Cup
... these Olympics would bring to Rio, and especially to the marginalised communities living in favelas (sometimes referred to as ...the Olympics especially, may appear superficially as credible tools of ...
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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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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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Seeing you through London 2012: eye care at the Olympics
... Patients predominantly attended the clinic for a full refractive status check and 973 pairs of spectacles and 50 pairs of contact lenses were dispensed.5 Of the 309 optometrists and 103 [r] ...
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School sport : key developments since the Olympics
... Contents 1 2 1 Government strategy on School Sport 2 1.1 The National Curriculum: Physical Education 3 The response to the new guidance 5 Schools’ duty to provide sport and PE 6 1.2 Fund[r] ...
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Sustainability and the Olympics: The case of the 2016 Rio Summer Games
... established the concept “Towards a One Planet Olympics”. The principles were taken forward in the form of the London 2012 Sustainability Plan, which was structured around five sustainability themes: climate ...
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Potential Diplomatic Risks at International Sport Events
... Athletes, technical and administrative delegations representing the countries in the games, must walk in the form of a cortege in the opening-closing ceremonies. They march in turns and according to a specific order, ...
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Olympic Violence: Memory, Colonialism, and the Politics of Place
... This paper proceeds as a brief intervention in response to Andrew Foxall’s article ‘Geopolitics, genocide and the Olympic Games: Sochi 2014’. I address the violence that is associated with the Olympic Games and the ...
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More than Sport: A Case Study on Sport Diplomacy Within the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
... 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, ...Winter Olympics took ...
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The Development of Mathematical Logical Reasoning through Computer Programming: The Case of the Computer Programming Olympics for Basic Education Students
... the Olympics of Programming was responsible for the changes these students experienced, we have strong reasons to believe that these events were an important influence, helping this target audience to devel- ...
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The Olympic family? Young people, family practices and the London 2012 Olympic Games
... the Olympics, although many of the young people talked about the practical support their parents, in particular, gave them in helping them play sport (see ...
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The Sydney Olympics, seven years on: an ex-post dynamic CGE assessment
... the Olympics year, independently of other Olympics-related ...the Olympics year is modelled as a cost-neutral shift in household spending on tourism related ...
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Social Media and Big Data – Their Potential Impacts to Sport Event Sponsorship
... In addition, commercial platforms were examined. These platforms provide an additional view of social media and other big data. The concept behind these platforms is the integration of data to be able to develop a ...
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Sochi 2014 : ecology, Sochi-ites 0--Russian civil society 1?
... the Olympics always means colossal changes for any host city, but for Sochi, a relatively underdeveloped Black Sea resort city, is has meant and will mean even more changes than for most ...
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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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