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Chicago 2016 Olympic Bid and Opposition
Chicago’s bid for the 2016 summer Olympics began in 2006 and ended in 2009 when it was defeated in the first round of voting by the IOC. The city’s...
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Inventing Sarajevo as the Ultimate Olympic City
The chapter depicts the emergence of the image of Sarajevo as an ‘oasis of peace’ in the troubled period of rising tensions between the two Cold War...
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The Fuzzy Borders of Intergovernmentalism
This chapter looks at some organizations that lie at the border of our definition of intergovernmental institutions. These organizations are either...
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Games and genes: human diversity meets cytogenetics—Mexico 1968
The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico included innovative practices and technological knowledge of human biology. The first time that cytogenetic...
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Conclusion: Sarajevo’s Olympic Benchmark
Presenting central findings in the volume’s analyses, this concluding chapter emphasises how the Olympics emerged as a temporal reference point...
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Ethical Governance and the Olympic Movement
Governance determines the possibilities and boundaries of what sports organizations do and the public perceptions of their values. While often opaque...
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Examining the influence of brand-based value congruity: do the values of the International Olympic Committee really matter?
This paper argues that international sport organizations may be able to use value congruity in order to assess the effect of their current corporate...
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The Growth of the Olympics as International Spectacle
Thematically, the second chapter aims to trace how the Olympics grew to become an international event that terrorists viewed as a viable target to...
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From the Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang to the Summer Asian Games in Jakarta-Palembang: Inter-Korean Connections in 2018 at Sport Mega-Events in Asia
This chapter concerns North and South Korean relations at the two major sporting occasions held in Asia in 2018, namely the Winter Olympic Games in...
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Athlete Activism at the Olympics: Challenging the Legality of Rule 50 as a Restriction on Freedom of Expression
Since Colin Kaepernick began taking the knee during the American national anthem to protest social injustice and inequality in the USA in 2016,...
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The State and International Organizations
This is a book about international organization (IO) theory and its use to understand international relations. It is organized around four...
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the Mega Sport Events: The Case of the Postponement of Olympic Games “Tokyo 2020”
For the first time in history the Olympic Games were postponed for a year, from 2020 to 2021. This chapter aims at analysing the impact of the crisis...
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Nurturing nature in a mega-city: a decadal assessment of the Bei**g Olympic Forest Park
In this article, we showcase the Bei**g Olympic Forest Park (BOFP), a large-scale urban park developed as part of the green infrastructure to...
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The Spatial Change of Winter Olympics: The Analysis of International Case Studies
This chapter explores five Winter Olympic Games in the Alpine macro-region: St Moritz 1948, Cortina d’Ampezzo 1956, Innsbruck 1976, Albertville 1992,...
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Influence of the quality of the opponent on physical, technical, and tactical performance of elite female soccer players in international competitions
PurposeSoccer is a complex sport that depends on several physical performance and technical-tactical factors. Therefore, we aimed to: i) analyze the...
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Introduction: Sarajevo’s Olympic Spirit
Placed within the emergent but still largely under-explored research field of the social history of sport in the Socialist Yugoslavia, the chapter...
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Sco** review of lacrosse: match demands, physical performance and injury surveillance
BackgroundLacrosse has seen an uptake in participation in the last two decades. Moreover, with small-sided variants (box lacrosse [BL] and sixes...
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Development and implementation of an injury and illness surveillance system for team USA
BackgroundThe purpose of this report is to provide insight and details regarding the development and implementation of an injury and illness...
