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Sammons, Margi C. "WRITING THE OLYMPIC DREAM: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE 2004 OLYMPIC PAUL HAMM MEDIA CONTROVERSY." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1123090599.
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Stevens, Susannah Ruth (Susie). "Olympism practised through sport: An insight from youth." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Sciences and Physical Education, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5806.
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This study investigates nine youths' understanding of Olympic Ideals (Olympism) and their perceptions on whether these ideals have importance within the practice of sport. A qualitative case study is used in conjunction with a humanistic-critical theoretical framework to gather and analyse data. Using purposive sampling, nine students are selected from four schools in Christchurch, New Zealand to participate in one individual and one paired semi-structured interview. Currently there is a paucity of national and international research into youth's perceptions and understanding of Olympism through the practice of sport. The research that does exist tends to be quantitative in nature with a focus on Games knowledge, thus, this study provides a contribution to the current research domain regarding qualitative conversations about Olympism in youth sport.
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Sammons, Margi. "Writing the Olympic dream a critical analysis of the media coverage of the 2004 Olympic Paul Hamm media controversy /." Connect to this document online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1123090599.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Communication, 2005.Title from first page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [1], iii, 96 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 88-96).
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Hack, Niklas Johannes. "The Values of Olympism in Conformance with Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-29373.
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The objective of this thesis is to illuminate and analyse how the values of Olympism are coherent with Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter.In order to carry out this assignment the Case Study is chosen as research design. The data are collected by a semi-systematic literature review, using secondary data and IOC policy documents. In the first part of the analysis the content of the continuously evolving narrative of Olympism is analysed using a thematic narrative analysis. The second part of the analysis aims at highlighting the role of Rule 50.2 in regard to the values of Olympism and builds upon the results of the previous analysis. Furthermore, it looks at the athletes’ position in this institutional structure, drawing upon the theoretical framework using the concept of power by Foucault (1980) and Giddens (1984). It is conducted using aspects of CDA which aids to point out the power relations defined by the Olympic Charter and expressed by Rule 50.2.1The narrative analysis concludes that the notion of Olympism is not a neutral term but subject to change according to geographic location, historic, socio-cultural and political background. The values of Olympism are currently in a contended state. They are being adopted in an increasing commercial context and discourse which is taking place around the Olympic Games. Multinational Corporations and external interests are gaining influence on the Olympic Movement, yet athletes are frequently denied the access to implement power.Rule 50.2 of the Olympic Charter, which prohibits athletes from demonstrating can be seen as a prime example of the ambiguities of the Olympic Movement. Which in the Olympic Charter claims the goal to improve human rights, and an apolitical character, but simultaneously denies its athletes the right of freedom of expression. Rule 50.2 and acting accordingly can be seen in relation to Foucault's (1980) “mechanics of power”, which makes visible how the dominant discourse of commercialisation is influencing the behavior of society and institutions. For athletes to gain more impact and power on the macro level, it is crucial to educate themselves and adopt a critical self-consciousness by applying Giddens (1984) notion of reflexive monitoring.
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Karlsson, Lukas. "The Olympic Games – An Instrument for Environmental Political Change. : A case study exploring the Environmental Political approaches of the Olympic Games – with special focus on the 28th Summer Olympic Games in Beijing." Thesis, University of Kalmar, School of Human Sciences, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hik:diva-2278.
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UNIVERSITY OF KALMAR - SWEDEN
The institution of Social Science
Project: Master Essay 15points
Title: Olympic Games – An instrument for Environmental Political Change?
-A case study exploring the Environmental Political views of the Olympic Games – with special focus on the 28th Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
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The essay´s aim was to explore the complex political environmental opinions and opportunities to use the Olympic Games as an instrument for environmental political changes, with special focus on the 2008 summer Olympics Games in Beijing.
In the light of two environmental political theories (The Green Business and Critical Ecology Theories) The International Olympic Committee's (The IOC) third pillar, the environment, the Beijing Olympic Committee 's motto (BOCOG) “Green Olympics” and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO:s) such as Greenpeace and their motto “Green Games” have been reviewed. The aim was to see the organisations aim to use the Beijing Olympics as a tool for environmental political changes.
The study involves six qualitative interviews, one group interview, one written questionnaire and participating observations, during an eight week field study, during the Beijing Olympics in 2008.
The conclusion of the study demonstrates that the Olympic Games can be used as important instrument to address the organisations environmental work toward a “Greening” of Olympic cities with firstly technical measures under political control. The Olympics are also used as an instrument to raise the environmental awareness of the public in Beijing and China.
The City of Beijing was seen as a showcase of green standards hopefully to be spread nationally. The “Greening of Olympics” is still though a complex social and scientific matter. Countries and cities have different conditions, knowledge, interests and ambitions. Universal standards are not always universally understood.
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Dias, Claire Rhiannon. "Olympic trials." Thesis, Bangor University, 2014. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/olympic-trials(feb17a88-72fb-4577-9369-810a7420399e).html.
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Olympic Trials is a literary thriller that explores the dark side of sporting culture, including the many sacrifices, dysfunctional relationships and extreme behaviours that are common aspects of participating in a high performance sport environment. Juxtaposed with the stories of the athletes, there is the tale of an aspiring terrorist. His relentless devotion to a coach-like cult leader, and his physical, spiritual and psychological struggles on his journey to the Olympic Games mirrors the challenges of the athletes. The research portion of the thesis examines many of the texts generally included in the canon of sport fiction. Paramount here is the emergence of the anti-hero typology, figured within the framework of a quest narrative. These fictional athletes are depicted as inhuman⎯distinct in nature to the average citizen. Though these protagonists possess heroic strength or skill, they simultaneously demonstrate an inability to harness those attributes. They are distinctly flawed characters, who operate outside of acceptable moral parameters and the social norms of a community, although their misbehavior, including misogyny, homophobia and violence, is often endorsed by society. They live life at the mercy of sporting culture and their insatiable desires.
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Malia, Allison. "Reading the Olympic Games : nationalism, olympism, globalisation, and London 2012." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/14880.
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Nationalism and globalisation are two topics of great debate. In an increasingly connected world, these concepts are contrasted as opposites unable to coexist with a rise in one there must be a fall in the other. In this study, these concepts are explored alongside Olympism through the medium of the Olympic Games. Historically, the Olympics are structured around nations/nation-states, and national teams, while still attempting to promote universalism, internationalism, and the unity of humankind. This work aims to explore how and why nationalism, Olympism, and globalisation are expressed in the Olympic Movement through a case study of the London 2012 Olympic Games and what the outcomes of these actions are. Backed by an interpretivist paradigm, this study focused on selected events in the lead-up to the London Games, starting in the summer of 2011, and culminated with a prolonged period of observation at the London Games, both at Olympic venues and the live site at Hyde Park. Throughout the course of data collection there was a focus on not only the institutions staging the Games but also the spectators taking part in them.
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Glosniak, Quinn. "The 1936 Nazi Olympic Games; The First Truly Modern Olympiad." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1707.
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Revived in 1896 by the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin, the Olympic Games have come to represent the ultimate international celebration of sport, culture, and the human spirit. The grandiose festival of the current day evolved into its mature form throughout the course of the twentieth century. However, no Olympiad altered the Olympic Movement as radically as the Berlin Olympics of 1936. Through the examination of key secondary sources and primary sources like, International Olympic Committee (IOC) records, personal testimonies, and newspaper articles, this thesis examines how and why the 1936 Nazi Olympics fundamentally altered the Olympic Movement and forced the Olympic Games to confront and adapt to a rapidly changing world. While the 1936 Berlin Games set many new precedents in the Olympic Games, three in particular stand out: the politicization of the host city selection process; the rise of government investment in Olympic outcomes; and the use of new technology and media.
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Young, Sarah A. "The Olympic/media complex, the development and relationships of Olympic marketing." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0004/MQ44800.pdf.
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Erten, Sertac. "Spatial Analysis Of Mega-event Hosting: Olympic Host And Olympic Bid Cities." Phd thesis, METU, 2008. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609390/index.pdf.
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The aim of this dissertation is to provide a new perspective to the analysis of megaevent / host city relationship. The significance of the research subject depends on the
interest in hosting mega-events such as the Olympic Games and the World Fairs, which generate a competition among cities. Turkish cities are recently being involved in this competition. In addition to that, mega-events have large-scale and long-term impacts on the built environment, which has not been thoroughly discussed in urban studies. The methodology which is based on a qualitative analysis comprises three steps: a historical analysis made on the Olympic host cities, and two case studies. The first case is Athens as the 2004 Olympic city, the second case is Istanbul as an Olympic bid city since 1990. This study recognizes but qualifies the concept of megaevent hosting. It is shown that mega-event hosting is a capacity-building process, whilst it has a potential to generate overdose investments problem in the built environment. The most significant conclusion of the study is that the ability of coping with this problem is correlated with the ability of absorbing the investments made.
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Richardson, Kevin Michael. "Washington D.C. | Olympic Metamorphosis." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32836.
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This thesis began by studying how a temporary event could create permanent architecture and how that architecture could change an urban lifestyle. I chose the Olympics as the event and proposed that they be held in Washington D.C., a city of international prominence with a rich design history but a city that hasn't had a large scale urban redevelopment plan in over a century.
I focused on the city east of the Capitol as I wanted to extend the monumental core created in the McMillan plan. I researched baroque design, Olympic planning, and even the original L'Enfant plan. The result of this research was unearthing some of the original L'Enfant design elements and incorporating them into a 21st century city by blending new design issues with the idea of a city designed around radial vistas with magnificent termini.
I focused on two sites, the Olympic Torch and the Olympic Stadium. The Torch is situated as a terminus on a site that was intended to be mile marker zero for the country. Its design and importance make it a monument while still not impeding the views. The stadium was created to serve as a stadium for the people, allowing pedestrians outside to view and interact with the event inside. It is sunken so as not to obstruct views but it is spanned by arches that pierce the cityscape signifying its monumentality and appropriately ending the monumental axis started with the Lincoln Memorial on the western edge of the city.Master of Architecture
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Deng, Yaping. "Olympic branding and global competition : the case of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252105.
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This study intends to find out how sponsors use the Olympic Games to build up their brand awareness and what the deep meaning of the Olympics is for these sponsors on their journey in the globalisation competition. There is a gap in academic literature on the practice of Olympic sponsors in enhancing their competitiveness. This research uses the method of case study to make in-depth inquiry into the complexity of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), sponsors, PR companies and Advertising companies. In addition, the author’s working experience closely related to Olympics has facilitated the research especially in the interview process. The study selects four sponsors of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, two multinational corporations, Adidas and Coca Cola, and two Chinese corporations, Air China and Lenovo. The study argues that the Olympics is not a simple matter of sports competition recently, but rather a sports activity that shows the comprehensive strength of the host country, and even more so it is an important platform for world famous enterprises to enlarge their share of international markets, and to raise their brand recognition and reputation. Due to economic globalisation, competition between enterprises is no longer a competition between individuals, but is rather a union of win-win corporations. In order to maximise commercial profits, each enterprise forms a centralised operation system and network according to its commercial value. Moreover, it needs a bigger platform which is sports marketing operation pattern strengthening in the long term; most importantly the Olympic Games marketing will integrate in the enterprises’ own developmental strategy. By comparing and contrasting the practices of the Chinese companies with the multinational corporations, the study presents the challenges for firms from developing countries to catch up in competitiveness through the opportunity provided by the Olympic Games.
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Nongogo, P., PB Shaw, and I. Shaw. "Delivering the international olympic committee's mandate on youth olympic games in South Africa." African Journal for Physical, Health Education, Recreation and Dance, 2009. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1001648.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is
currently planning the historic Youth Olympic
Games (YOG), an international mul ti sport event
that will be inaugurated in Singapore in 2010. On
the 6t h of July 2007, the establishment of the YOG
was approved and will feature 14 to 18 year old
athletes. The purpose of the YOG is to complement
the Olympic Games but not to create a “mini
Games”. This event will place emphasis on quality
of performance, rather than the sport ing
achievement itself and the IOC aims to use the
YOG to address the decline in the relevance of
sport amongst the younger generation and to
educate the youth through the values that sport
teaches. The selected sport events will be carefully
chosen to protect the health of the young athletes.
This study evaluated the perceived strengths,
weaknesses, opportunities and threats that South
Africa faces in delivering the mandate of the IOC
on the YOG. The study had a critical theoretical
framework. A semi structured questionnaire was
completed by 36 academic sport experts and
administrators of the nine provincial sport
academies. The semi st ructured questionnaire
al lowed the respondents an opportunity to comment
on other relevant issue(s) not raised in the
questionnaire. Thematic content analysis was
carried out on the semi structured questionnaires.
The data gained was util ised to briefly crit ique
South African society and sports in the context of
the YOG. The findings i lluminate some percept ion
on South Africa’s strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats in relation to the IOC’s
vision and mandate and how a team for the
Singapore 2010 YOG and beyond may be
galvanised.
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Zhuang, Juan. "Volunteering for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games : visions, policies and capitals." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/294459.
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This research examines the use of volunteering at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games for the creation of human, social and political capital at individual, organisational and societal levels. Despite a long tradition of Olympic volunteering, this has not been investigated so far. The concept of volunteerism at Beijing 2008, in fact, was constructed upon multiple contexts including the Olympic Movement, Chinese society and an international understanding of the ternl (BOCOG, 2005). Hence, volunteerism as an under-investigated concept is firstly studied individually in each of these contexts. The frameworks underpinning this research include Getz's (2005) human resource planning process which explains how specific policies for managing event volunteers are formulated for fulfilling its vision(s); and theories of social, human and political capital as developed by Putnam (2000), Bourdieu (1986; 1991) and Coleman (1988) respectively. Multiple qualitative case study strategy is adopted for this investigation, following a constructivist paradigm. The subjective and interactive epistemology is constructed upon the knowledge and experiences of a total of fifty-seven infoIDlants, most of whom were directly involved in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Volunteer Programme. The research findings illustrate that the Chinese state and BOCOG's interpretation of the concept of volunteerisrn was manifested in organisational visions for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Volunteer Programme. These visions were accomplished through a range of management policies, which in fact placed volunteerism at Beijing 2008 in line with the maturity stage of volunteerism in the Olympic Movement. During the course of the management practices, social, human and political capital were created in varying degrees at all of the three levels. It was also evident that participation and training were the critical processes in the creation of different forms of capital. Moreover, the findings suggest that the created social, human and political capital have both positive and negative effects on those involved, while full possible long-term effects are yet to become apparent. This research makes distinctive contributions to the body of knowledge. It adds six-dimensional conceptual frameworks for both volunteerism in general and Olympic volunteerism in specific. Investigation into how volunteering for the Beijing Games has been used for the creation of social, human and political capital at individual, organisational and societal levels is deemed to be original. Research findings will contribute to the development of volunteerism in the Olympic Movement and future Olympic volunteer programmes. Suggestions for future research are also proposed to investigate on further issues of issue of the use of volunteering for the creation of social, human and political capital at future Olympic Games as well as other mega events.
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Chatziefstathiou, D. "The changing nature of the ideology of Olympism in the modern Olympic era." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2005. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/2820.
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Witczuk, Julia Judyta. "Monitoring program and assessment of coyote predation for Olympic marmots." Connect to this title online, 2007. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-07252007-161147/.
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Thorn, Sandra Anne. "Olympism Education:Teaching and learning Olympism in a New Zealand secondary physical education programme." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Educational Studies and Human Development, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4537.
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As a physical education teacher educator and Olympic educator I have become conscious that many physical education teachers have heard of Olympism, but are confused about what it encompasses. Furthermore they are challenged to understand how to teach Olympism in their physical education programmes. The potential of the educative and social value of Olympism is, as yet, unfulfilled. My study is about the content knowledge teachers require for teaching Olympism, the successful pedagogies they use, and the meanings that students derive from putting Olympism into action within, and outside of, the gymnasium.
My qualitative case study uses teacher and student interviews, and observations to gather data as it follows the teaching and learning of Olympism in the Year 9 physical education programme of a New Zealand secondary school. In my attempt to understand what teachers need to know and do to make Olympism a reality in physical education programmes I have drawn on aspects of Shulman‟s (1987) seminal framework of teacher knowledge, to understand the content knowledge needed for teaching Olympism, the pedagogical content knowledge required, and the knowledge of students and their characteristics as they learn about Olympism.
My findings reveal that teachers require various forms of content knowledge to teach Olympism, such as knowledge of students and their needs, a clear definition of Olympism for the setting, Olympism as a personal life-stance, ethical situations in games, and a holistic physical education curriculum. Pedagogies that the teachers used were found to be the transformation of Olympism into manageable concepts for teaching, the use of experiential and social teaching models in games contexts, and the extensive use of questioning and discussion strategies to develop critical thinking. Evidence shows the range of the students‟ learning, and the development of deeper meanings of Olympism. The students regarded the teacher as a role model of Olympism, and varied in their ability to transfer Olympism understandings into their wider lives.
My detailed account of how teachers understand and teach Olympism, and the extent to which students apply their knowledge in class and beyond, offers a practical example of what Olympic education can look like when it has Olympism at its core. Such teaching I have named Olympism education.
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Holland, Avery. "Are Olympic Sponsorships Worth it? The Case of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/406.
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As corporate sponsorship of sporting events becomes a more popular marketing tool, the price tag associated with these sponsorship agreements has steepened considerably. Over the past thirty years, sponsorship has become an integral part of the Olympic Games. In this paper, we employ an event study methodology to assess the impact of both the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games and the performance of Canadian Olympic athletes on the shareholder value of national Olympic sponsors. We hypothesize, in line with current behavioral finance research, that the national Olympic sponsors will capitalize on the positive mood and attention associated with the Games in such a way that Olympic sponsorship will positively impact shareholder value. However, we find that, from a stock return perspective, corporate sponsorship of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games is not a value-adding investment. We find that while the market index is positively impacted by both the Olympic Games and Canadian medalists, there is a negative and significant impact of the Olympic Games on national sponsors. Furthermore, Canadian medalists have a positive impact on the stock returns of three individual sponsors, but these winners' effects are negative for two sponsors and insignificant for another two sponsors.
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Cahill, Shane. ""The Friendly Games"? the Melbourne Olympic Games in Australian culture, 1946-1956 /." Connect to this title online, 1989. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/2401.
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Melbourne is making a concerted bid to obtain the centenary 1996 Olympic Games. While much of its bid is occupied with explanations of the city’s ability to meet the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) requirements, it is underpinned by a common theme that the city possesses a unique quality of “Friendliness”. (For complete abstract open document)
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Persson, Christer. "The Olympic host selection process /." Luleå, 2000. http://epubl.luth.se/1402-1544/2000/37/index.html.
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Mohamed, Harith Sophia. "A Compromised Legacy? Investigating the embodiment of Olympism values within the Olympic bidding process." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-35403.
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The international and commercialised recognition of the Olympic Games can bring upon prestigious benefits to a country's Olympic Games legacy. Due to this, candidate cities have capitalised on this opportunity to leverage their bids to successfully secure hosting rights. Consequently, this has commodified the bidding process, which has intensified the competition and the declining number of bids over recent years. Thus, jeopardising the legitimacy of the Olympic Games bids to its true values of Olympism. Hence, utilising a semi-systematic literature review, this thesis aims to investigate the extent and in what ways the Olympic Games bids have embodied the values of Olympism. Specifically exploring within three case-study examples; the Beijing 2008; the London 2012; and the Rio De Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Adopting a thematic analysis and theoretical framework, findings have noted four overarching themes that influence the leveraging of bids; Economical, Political, Globalisation and the Public (Social). Further, and to a vague extent, the selected Olympic Games bids embodied the values of Olympism as secondary and appear to be a by-product of a prominent agenda that reflects the ebb and flow of politics and economics of the respective host-city. Interestingly, by examining the Olympism philosophy and legacy this may not be an issue due to its abstract construction and lack of precision, which has enabled great flexibility. As a resolution, this thesis calls for the values to be measurable and the implementation of evaluative committees that span beyond the Olympic Games to ensure Olympism values and its legacy is embodied successfully.
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Kassens, Eva. "How to prepare an airport for the Olympic Games? : transportation of the Olympic Family Members." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/31149.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2005.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 111-112).
This thesis describes and assesses the preparation of Athens International Airport for and its performance during the Olympic Games in 2004. The analysis includes infrastructural modifications made and organizational restructuring processes undertaken. It also describes the rationale behind some of the decisions, as well as the implementation of certain specific measures. The time-frame of the preparations stretches from the very strategic beginnings, the forecasting, to the actual management of passenger flows during the Games. The focus of the thesis is on the transportation of the Olympic Family Members, i.e. athletes, sponsors, and VIP's. Finally, the thesis incorporates lessons learned from the Athens Olympic Games.
by Eva Kassens.
S.M.
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Witherspoon, Kevin B. Jones James Pickett. "Protest at the pyramid : the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and the politicization of the Olympic Games /." Electronic version:, 2003. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11162003-024645.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Florida State University, 2003.Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Mar. 3, 04). Advisor: Dr. James P. Jones, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History. Includes bibliographical references.
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Oshanski, Kari Ann. "The Impact of Olympics on Public Open Space in Host Cities." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366293753.
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Hobbs, Nicholas. "A Review of Olympic Host Cities: Analyzing the Exclusion of South American and African States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1721.
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The Olympic Games are a global phenomenon that focus a spotlight onto the hosting city once every two years. While the athletes are judged on their physical abilities, the host city is judged on its architecture, organization and capabilities. It is a chance to showcase your city and country to the world. But while athletes from all over the world are welcome to compete in the games, becoming a host city has only been granted to a few countries, not reaching all seven continents. One must look into what it takes to host the Olympic Games and what factors are creating an exclusionary trend.
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Cabrita, Túlia Rute Maia. "Factores que influenciam o desempenho olímpico-percepções de treinadores e atletas." Master's thesis, Instituições portuguesas -- UTL-Universidade Técnica de Lisboa -- -Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, 2002. http://dited.bn.pt:80/30003.
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Leopkey, Becca. "The Governance of Olympic Games Legacy." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23640.
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The purpose of this study was to understand the governance of Olympic Games legacy. Legacy is broadly described as “all planned and unplanned, positive and negative, intangible and tangible structures created by and for a sport event that remain for a longer time than the event itself” (Preuss, 2007a, p. 86). The specific objectives of this study were: a) to map the historical evolution of legacy throughout the modern Olympic Movement (OM) (i.e., 1896-current day) in order to contextualize and conceptualize the major trends (e.g., changes in legacy, network actors/stakeholders, governance structures and processes) over time; b) to understand, explain, and compare/contrast the network governance of Olympic legacy, using Australian and Canadian case settings; and c) to critically analyze the overall structure and process of the governance of legacy within the OM focusing specifically on the aspects of performance, transparency, accountability, and participation to build a framework and provide policy recommendations for the governance of legacy in mega-events. In order to accomplish these objectives, a historical review of legacy within the OM and two descriptive case studies (Sydney 2000 and Vancouver 2010) were built using interviews and archival materials.
Findings showed how the growth of the Games has culminated in the increased use and importance of legacy, leading to greater concept complexity. This resulted in the emergence of several trends including: new legacy themes, heightened interconnectedness, and formalization of governance mechanisms. Institutional theory was then applied to further explore the emergence of legacy and its habitualization, objectification, and sedimentation as an accepted norm in the Olympic Field. The examination of the legacy governance networks in the two cases showed four legacy network governance phases: legacy conceptualization, legacy planning and implementation, legacy transfer, and post-Games legacy governance, as well as a number of governance mechanisms (e.g., contracts, policies) that had an impact on the overall governance of the event’s legacy. Finally, a critical analysis of the governance of Olympic Games legacy was completed. The end result of the research project was a theoretical framework detailing the levels and fluidity of legacy governance in the OM.
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Mokrushina, Ksenia. "Sustainability transformations in Olympic host cities." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73706.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis. Page 101 blank.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-100).
The Olympic Games represent an unparalleled fast-track urban development opportunity for Olympic host cities. Taking the premise that the transformational effect of the Olympics has a potential to drive long-term urban sustainability, this thesis examines how Olympic host cities can use the Olympic planning process to transition to a more sustainable model of urban development. Presenting the case of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, this thesis draws planning lessons for Sochi 2014 and other future Olympic host cities and discusses policy implications for the International Olympic Committee. The City of Vancouver's systematic efforts to integrate sustainability principles in Olympic planning created sustainability co-benefits exceeding the initial sustainability commitments of the bid book. The development of the Olympic Village generated a massive amount of urban sustainability learning by the City planning staff, thus majorly accelerating sustainability policies in the areas of energy efficiency, green building, district energy, urban design and agriculture. Taking advantage of an unprecedented opportunity to experiment with the "urban laboratory" of the Olympics, the City fostered improved citizens' perception of public space and transit, which gave rise to a sustained increase in transit ridership, walking and biking after the Games. The City was able to achieve these outcomes through integrating the Games into its long-term urban development strategy, strategic sustainability thinking and visioning, principled approach to planning, building partnerships with key stakeholders and leveraging resources from senior levels of government, ensuring that the interests of the organizing committee and city entrepreneurs do not dominate the planning process, engaging and consulting with community groups and educating the citizens. Lasting sustainability legacies of the Vancouver Olympics arose from a highly collaborative, inclusive and coordinated process involving all levels of government, multiple City agencies, private sector, VANOC, community groups and citizens. The applicability of the policy lessons learned from Vancouver's case is questionable in developing countries, authoritarian regimes and cities with little to no previous experience in urban sustainability. The IOC should play a more active role in preventing sustainability debacles in these policy contexts.
by Ksenia Mokrushina.
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Chung, Se-Hack. "A flexible system for Olympic villages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72728.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1985.MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ROTCH.
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This thesis suggests a flexible system and its systems approach in constructing Olympic Villages which are used both during and after the Games. A historical overview of ancient Olympia and modern Olympia, as well as a case study of modern Olympic Villages deal with the conceptual problem which were arisen in the design of Olympic Villages, due to the conflict between monumentality and practicality, and the contextual problems, caused by the pressure of time and cost in the building process. An approach to appropriate patterns proposes the construction of high - rise buildings and solves secondary problems in design and construction. A conceptual approach suggests perceptional complexity and flexibility. A contextual approach suggests the systems approach for fast track development which is compared with the conventional building process. Analogies of some notable building systems and their approaches in the past development of systems suggest an open system, a dual structure and performance based programming as the strategy for designing and building future Olympic Villages.
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Oyelade, Oluwaseyi Gabriel. "The Olympic Games and business enterprises." Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2016. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/18683/.
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Research into sports mega-events, of which the Olympics is the modern archetype, has often focused on the macro-economic and regional economic effects of hosting the Games. This research suggests that the local promoters and organisers of the event seldom, if ever, fulfil their promises. Drawing upon sport management, economic, and socio-historical analyses this thesis examines the economic trends and activities that occur within the business enterprises that are associated directly and indirectly with the Olympic Games. The thesis examines the commercial strength of the Olympic brand and how the brand has managed to evolve from being an instrument of peace and goodwill to a transnational nongovernmental commercial giant of imposing power and influence. The thesis provides an overview of the historical relationship between business and the Olympics and specifically analyses how business has engaged with the Olympics since the 1980s. Using London 2012 as a case study it attempts to assess how far London 2012 was good for business in the UK by examining the published accounts of the sponsors and suppliers of the Games. It also assesses the regional impact of the Games by looking at small and medium sized business enterprises (SMEs) in the south-east and the north-west. The results suggest that claims for a positive business impact from the Olympic Games are largely unwarranted. While the Olympics can be a catalyst for economic change, it should be viewed as a singular investment within a broader strategy for development. As a single event, the Olympics cannot guarantee a widespread economic impact on either major corporations or SMEs.
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Yang, Mei. "Olympic ideology and the 2008 torch relay in British and Chinese elite media : a critical discourse analysis." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2012. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=186869.
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This thesis attempts to explore the discursive construction of Olympic ideology in the 2008 Torch Relay news coverage by the British and the Chinese media. It applies a corpus-based Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis (DHA-CDA) to analyse how and why the complexity, contradiction and conflicts in linguistic interpretations of Olympism are demonstrated by the media discourse between East and West. This study first focuses on the underpinning ideology and the study of the media, considering the historical development of Olympic ideology (Olympism) along with the respective mainstream ideologies in Britain (Liberalism) and China (Harmony), as well as the philosophical foundations and prominence of CDA. It then draws on the elaborated analytical approach-corpus-based CDA-in detail to analyse four specially constructed corpora drawn from the China Daily, BBC News and The Guardian. Thereafter corpus techniques including frequency and concordance analysis are applied and results obtained that reveal comparative differences and diachronic shifts across the corpora. Having first described the data, they are then interpreted in their linguistic contexts, and subsequently explained in the broader historical and socio-political contexts surrounding the dynamic life of the Olympic Torch Relay. This study demonstrates that there are contrasting expressions of Olympic ideology in the media discourse of the two countries. At a deeper level, this social practice is revealed to be dominated by the mainstream ideologies of the hosting and participating nations, which have been entrenched throughout their respective histories. The involvement of Britain and China in Olympic history and the relevant socio-political events surrounding the 2008 Torch Relay are explored in order to inform our analysis. The conclusion to this thesis reinforces its significant contribution to the study of Olympism. The Olympic philosophy of integrating diversified ideologies was certainly not manifest in the confrontation between the eastern and western media in 2008. Liberalism and harmony had never confronted each other face to face on the world stage before or attempted to find a common ground on which to coexist as revealed in this study. Based on this, respect for and tolerance of diverse ideology, history and culture will hopefully promote the solidarity and prosperity represented by Olympism in the new era.
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Badia-Bellinger, Jordan Jose. "Hosting the Olympics: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Economic and Social Effects of the Olympic Games." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/509.
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This paper attempts to provide a cost-benefit analysis of the economic and social effects of hosting the Olympic Games. I provide an overview of the economic and social impacts of the Games and analyze their effects. I focus the economic effects of the Games on tourism, trade, corporate sponsorship and the sale of television rights. I also look at the social effects of the Games on infrastructure and employment. Finally I assess why the Olympics remain an appealing venture for cities, despite evidence that demonstrates how they produce more actual harm than good for the host city. In addition, I provide predictions for two alternative directions that the Olympics could take in the future: to either continue in the current trend of immense growth and commercialization, or alternatively, implement a new Olympic bidding process that establishes stricter criteria for candidate cities.
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Strehlow, Anett, and Katja Rehage. "Olympic Logistics Centers and their Adjustment to Specific Requirementsand Distribution Applications : Comparing the Olympic SummerGames 2000-2008." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Marketing and Logistics, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-18272.
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Problem: Since there is not much inside information available, the problem that will be handled by this thesis is the coordination of warehousing activities within the logistics centers put to use by the Olympic Summer Games from 2000 to 2008. A special attention is given to certain requirements such as layout, capacity management, ownership and distribution applications. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is based on warehouse requirementsand their specific adjustment to the Olympic Summer Games, further emphasizing on distribution applications influencing the capacityand ownership. Theory: The theoretical section touches upon event logistics, the Olympic Games and more importantly, logistics centers as a generic termfor distribution facilities and warehouses. Further, types of warehouses, capacity management, ownership and distribution applications are examined in order to be able to compare the various Games. Method: The method for this research is based on a case study conducted by semi-structured interviews with several people involved in the logistics organization of the Games. All interviews are conducted over the telephone and analyzed accordingly. However, secondary data was of high importance due to the limited number of interview respondents. Conclusion: All analyzed features of a warehouse facility had to be more efficiently and effectively performed in order to serve the great approach for the Olympic Summer Games. The implementation of distribution applications was not sophisticated enough to benefit capacity savings. The leased ownership situation and outsourcing to third party logistics providers were advantageous, but did not further influence the planning and utilization phase of the Olympic Games.
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Tsatsaridou, Kyriaki Nikolaou. "The Relationship Between Greece and the Olympic Movementwith Special Reference to the Proposal for a Permanent Olympic Site." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502122.
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The Olympic Games' deviation from their goal of promoting simultaneously sportsmanship and human values has been demonstrated over the years, with exceptional examples of chauvinism, as well as ideological, political and economic pursuits. Tough competition has prevailed instead of cooperation, or creative communication, both in sports and other fields. IIluminating examples are boycotts, non-participant countries, and high levels of commercialization. This thesis constitutes a thorough historical examination of the two official proposals that were submitted by the Greek Government in 1976, and 1980, while in 1984 there was a reminder of the original proposal of 1976 by President Karamanlis of Greece to the International Olympic Committee (lOC), proposing the permanent holding of the Olympic Games at one site. The study introduces into the public domain for the first time information regarding the political and economic negotiations which took place in that period. The use of the personal archive of the former Prime Minister and former President of Greece, Constantine Georgiou Karamanlis, represents the basis of the study. Analyzing this archive in combination with elite interviewing constitutes the qualitative research methods adopted in this thesis. Specifically the interview, as part of the research, with the former British Ambassador to Moscow, Paris, Warsaw, and Athens (1996-1999) Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, who was the only individual who had previous access to this archive, was deemed valuable for the nature of this research. This is the first time in the international literature that this particular issue will be thoroughly examined. The conceptual framework of the study asks whether the proposal of hosting the Olympic Games at one site is an expression of nationalism in sport. Furthermore, consideration is given to what happens.when the global idea of the Olympic Games meets the perspective of a permanent site, again with particular emphasis on issues of nationalism in sport. Within this context the issues that will be examined include: Tension between the global idea of the Olympics and the Games held at one site; The proposal as an expression of nationalism in sport; The changing nature of the Olympic Games as a political tool. The study provides a new perspective on issues of globalization and nationalism in sport. The unique primary source of evidence that has been used offers a new basis of data for the research, while it highlights the relationship between Greece and the Olympic Movement.
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Nordby, Petter. "Environmental Accounting System for the Youth Olympic Games : A Thesis on Environmental Management for the Youth Olympic Games." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Institutt for industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-24835.
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The thesis is written in collaboration with Lillehammer Youth Olympic Games Organising committee (LYOGOC) and their desire to create an environmental strategy for the upcoming Youth Olympic Games (YOG) at Lillehammer in 2016. The thesis focuses on the environmental aspects connected to a youth Olympic game and how to control and handle these in a responsible manner. It was therefore chosen to develop a design for an environmental management system, which is coordinated and combined with an environmental accounting system.The Olympics are regarded as one of the world?s most prestigious sporting events, with history linked back to the ancient Greek society. The modern Olympic debut, with summer disciplines, where held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. The winter games were established twenty-eight years later in 1924, with Chamonix as the first host. The exaggerating development of the Olympic games might have given thoughts of wanting to bring back the true spirit, Olympism and Olympic values. IOC made an effort to get in touch with the old values, which resulted in the concept and establishment of YOG. The vision of YOG builds upon the thought of inspiring young people around the world to participate in sport, and adopt and live by the Olympic values. The event was created to educate, engage and influence young athletes in order to inspire them to play an active role in their communities.The YOG concept is built upon the thought of using former facilities, to set the focus on the third pillar of the Olympic games, the environment. The concept reduces the total environmental impacts of the events and a possibility to educate, develop and form the next generation. This means that the most significant environmental aspects occur during the staging of the event. The thesis intends to visualise a systemic picture of the environmental aspects of the YOG, pointing the attention on procurement, accommodation, venues, transportation, waste management and recycling.The analysis of environmental aspects was performed after creating a systemic picture of the event and interviews with key informants at each site. The analysis gives thereafter a basic in the development of the environmental management system and the environmental accounting system.The environmental management system will be based on the ideas of ISO 14001, ISO 20121 and EMAS. The system uses the high level structure of ISO 14001, with the procedures and measurements reflecting the systemic picture of YOG with the five main focus areas. Each sub element has its own procedures and measurements to control the environmental outcome of the games.The venues and accommodations will be rented in the event period, so it will be harder to affect the total environmental impact, because the willingness to improve environmental performance lies in the hands of the owners, and optional venues are not available. The thesis therefore stresses the importance of extra focus and environmental awareness on procurement, transportation, recycling and communication to increase environmental performance.
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Hu, Xiaoqian (Richard). "An analysis of Chinese olympic and elite sport policy discourse in the post-Beijing 2008 Olympic Games era." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17458.
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This thesis has sought to investigate the development of Chinese elite sport policy after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games through examining the evolution of the Chinese Olympic discourses and elite sport policy discourses with emphasis on the power and interests reflected and constructed within and by these discourses. This study adopts a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, (founded on Critical Realist premises). The discourse analysis protocol employed is modified from Fairclough s (2005, 2009) framework, also known as Dialectical-Relational Approach, to examine the constitution and implementation of power at the meso and micro levels of relationships within Chinese elite sport. The analysis is based on archival material and semi-structured interviews. Rather than providing a detailed chronology of the Chinese Olympic movement and of Chinese elite sport, the analysis, divided into two main parts, starts with identifying critical periods as the start line of the analysis and points of division that separate these periods. The analysis of the pre-2008 era starts with the year 1993, in which the first Olympic bid by China failed and the second significant reforming policy of Chinese elite sport was published. This section of the thesis consists of an analytic description of the development of Chinese elite sport policy and the analysis of Chinese Olympic discourse and elite sport discourse before the 2008 Olympics. The post-2008 section contains the analysis of these two discourses after the Beijing Games, and develops case studies of three sports, baseball, diving and table tennis, attempting to unveil the development of Chinese elite sport policy in the post-2008 era. From 1993 to 2012, a consistent feature was the concurrent requirement of both reform and of satisfactory elite sport performance, was maintained in Chinese elite sport policy discourse. The power of discourses in relation to these dual goals has varied across the period, has been influenced by a number of factors, and has been maintained by the dominant group within Chinese society and within Chinese elite sport exercising their power over discourse. The thesis argues that the characterisation of Chinese elite sport and of its development has varied with the change in the power relationship between the two sets of goals, which has significantly influenced the key developments and change in Chinese elite sport policy and its governance system.
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Prüschenk, Nathalie [Verfasser], and Markus [Akademischer Betreuer] Kurscheidt. "Social Capital Creation Through Olympic Games - Theoretical Modelling and Evidence on Olympic Values / Nathalie Prüschenk ; Betreuer: Markus Kurscheidt." Bayreuth : Universität Bayreuth, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1207389811/34.
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Silva, Lakmal, and Yu Xin. "Mobile Service For the Olympic Games 2008." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för telekommunikationssystem, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-2222.
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Mobile tourism service applications can be developed and successfully deployed with the rapid developments in mobile phones, communication technologies and tourism. In many situations, when travelers visit a country for a special event or just as travelers, it is obvious that they want to utilize the time and resources efficiently to enjoy the events and visit many places as possible. To achieve this, a traveler needs variety of information to make decisions and travel plans. Traditionally, this means purchasing tour guide books about a county or a city that refer them. At the same time, the 29th Olympic game is coming to the oldest civilized country China in 2008. The goal of our mobile service is to provide needed tourist information of the host country as well as event specific information. In the case of traveling for a special event, it is crucial to be informed about the last minute changes in the schedules. Our implementation tries to address these issues as much as possible.
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Ellis, Dana L. "Theorizing Ambush Marketing in the Olympic Games." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/30200.
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This research comprises three interconnected studies that, when considered together, attend to the dissertation’s purpose of presenting an integrated conceptual framework for ambush marketing in the Olympic Games. This has been accomplished in two ways: (1) the use of institutional theory, supported by network theory, as a lens to view and understand evolutionary processes in Olympic sponsorship and ambush marketing and (2) the use of grounded theory to build a conceptual framework of ambush marketing from the findings. Broadly, the model suggests the evolution of ambush marketing is partially impacted by, and an outcome of, institutional forces and considerations.
Study I examines the process of institutionalization in the evolution of Olympic sponsorship during its most critical period of growth. It is argued that three key periods of change for sponsorship and two for ambush marketing exist during this time. Furthermore, these periods of change, most specifically concerning anti-ambush marketing practices, suggest the institutionalization of anti-ambush marketing legislation in the Olympic Games.
Study II examines how Olympic ambush marketing stakeholder power and transfer of sponsorship and ambush marketing knowledge has influenced institutional processes toward the state of anti-ambush legislation as institutionalized brand protection. Centrality measures suggest the International Olympic Committee and Organizing Committees for the Olympic Games demonstrate the greatest stakeholder influence within the Olympic ambush marketing network. It is further argued the influence resulting from the structure of Olympic ambush marketing networks impacts the institutional processes of objectification and sedimentation.
Study III examines the contemporary state of Olympic sponsorship evidenced by institutionalized legislated brand protection. While direct marketing implications of anti-ambush marketing legislation are minimal, it is argued the practice represents a portion of a regime of brand protection and that public relations outcomes of legislated brand protection must be carefully managed as part of a brand management strategy. Similarly, proportionality and managing expectations are arguably important in the understanding and application of such laws. Finally it is suggested that while the Olympic Movement may be viewed as an early adopter of anti-ambush legislation in the mega-event field, the individual character of each Olympic Games will interfere with complete isomorphism.
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Watts, C. "The psychological benefits of Special Olympic involvement." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2011. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/10344/.
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Section A is a review of the current literature on sports involvement with respect to people with learning disabilities. It begins by describing the health status of people with learning disabilities and provides a context of sport and wellbeing in the general population. It continues by describing four reviews of the literature exploring people with learning disabilities with respect to sports involvement. This section ends with a description of the Special Olympics research and suggests future research needs in this area. Section B describes a quantitative cross-sectional study comparing two groups of sports active and non-active people with learning disabilities using several psychological measures. Objectives. There is evidence that people with learning disabilities have poorer mental and physical wellbeing compared with that of the wider population. The aim of this study was to explore whether a group of people with learning disabilities involved in sport differed in terms of psychological well-being compared with a group not involved in sport. Design. A cross sectional design was employed comparing two groups, sports active and non-active on the variables: Self-esteem, quality of life, stress levels and social networks. Methods. Seventy four participants were recruited across South East England. They completed a number of psychological measures. Results. Analysis revealed that self-esteem, quality of life, social networks and stress were all significantly correlated with Special Olympics involvement. A logistic regression analysis was used to explore whether scores on these variables were able to predict sport membership. Self-esteem was found to be a high predictor of group membership, those in the Special Olympics having higher self-esteem. Conclusions. The findings provide further evidence of a positive association between sport involvement and increased psychological wellbeing. The implications of these findings for theory and future research into the relationship between sport and psychological wellbeing within the learning disabled population is considered. Section C is a critical appraisal of the quantitative study that considers four aspects: research skills; amendments to the study if it were replicated; how the study may have influenced clinical practice; and finally, further research and methods relating to this area.
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Smith, Sarah. "Flexible: defining Olympic legacies through dynamic buildings." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427900401.
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Browning, Lisa E. "The Olympic sponsorship : a meeting planning perspective /." Online version of thesis, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/11718.
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Duarte, Rafael Burjack Farias. "The Olympic impact on hosting candidate countries." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/10176.
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In this paper, we analyze the impact of hosting the Summer Olympics on macroeconomic aggregates such as GDP, consumption, government consumption and investments per capita. The data is in panel structure and includes the period of ten years before and ten years after the event containing the Olympic Summer Games between 1960 and 1996. The sample countries comprise only candidates to host the games. This sampling strategy allows us to estimate the average treatment effect consistently, because it is assumed that these countries are comparable to each other, including those that ultimately hosted the games. The impact of hosting the Olympic games is measured by Fixed Effect and First Difference regressions. Moreover, we do a structural break test developed by Andrews (1993) to identify if hosting the Olympic Games creates anticipation effects for demand changes that stimulate current GDP, consumption, government consumption and investments. The results indicate a positive effect of the Summer Olympics in all variables of interest. However, the distribution in time and anticipation of these effects is unclear in the tests, changing significantly depending on the model and the significance level used.
Neste artigo e analisado o impacto de sediar as Olimp adas de Ver~ao em agregados macroecon^omicos como PIB, consumo, gastos do governo e investimentos per capitas. Os dados utilizados est~ao em painel e cont^em o per odo entre dez anos antes e dez anos depois do evento contendo os Jogos Ol mpicos de Ver~ao entre 1960 e 1996. Os pa ses da amostra s~ao apenas os candidatos a sediar os jogos, essa estrat egia amostral permite estimar os efeitos m edios de tratamento de forma consistente, pois assume-se que esses pa ses s~ao compar aveis entre si. Para avaliar o impacto dos jogos e lan cado m~ao de t ecnicas em painel como o Efeito Fixo e a Primeira Diferen ca e, al em disso, faz-se um teste de quebra estrutural desenvolvido por Andrews (1993) entre os pa ses sede. Os resultados indicam um efeito positivo e robusto dos Jogos Ol mpicos de Ver~ao em todas as vari aveis de interesse. No entanto, a distribui c~ao no tempo e antecipa c~ao desses efeitos e amb gua nos testes mudando de forma signi cativa dependendo do modelo e n vel de signi c^ancia utilizados.
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Resmann, Brittany. "The Games Must Go On: The Struggle Between Internationalism and Nationalism in Modern Olympic Movement." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2006. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/989.
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Lemos, Danilo Luis Rodrigues. "A história social do movimento olímpico brasileiro no início do século XX." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/39/39133/tde-11082008-093623/.
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A participação nos Jogos Olímpicos é condicionada à atuação de um comitê olímpico nacional. A criação dos referidos comitês é um fator controverso no Movimento Olímpico, uma vez que está subordinada à escolha de um representante nacional no Comitê Olímpico Internacional e que tal escolha não é democrática. Verificando a formação do esporte moderno e as características sociais que influenciaram a formação do Movimento Olímpico nacional e internacional, este trabalho visa identificar as razões que levaram o Brasil a fundar dois Comitês Olímpicos Brasileiros, e as implicações da história das entidades esportivas brasileiras nos dias de hoje. Para a realização do estudo foram consultados periódicos como o Jornal do Brasil, Jornal dos Sports, O Estado de São Paulo e Diário de São Paulo das décadas de 1910, 1920 e 1930 e também atas do Club Athletico Paulistano de 1912 a 1936, bem como o acervo da instituição. A agitação brasileira para ingresso no Movimento Olímpico inicia-se em 1912 e é influenciada pelo Comitê Olímpico Português e pelo caráter oligárquico do COI. A fundação do segundo COB em 1935 é marcada pela institucionalização das entidades esportivas e a conseqüente disputa pela representação das modalidadesThe participation in the Olympic Games is conditioned to the existence of a National Olympic Committee. The creation of these committees is a controversial aspect in the Olympic Movement since it is subjected to the choice of a national delegate for the International Olympic Committee, and that this choice is not democratic. Investigating the modern sport formation and the social characteristics that have influenced national and international Olympic Movement foundations, this research aims to identify the reasons that led Brazil to create two Brazilian Olympic Committees, and the implications of the brazilian sportive organization history in the present days. The references for the study were newspapers such as \"Jornal do Brasil\", \"Jornal dos Sports\", \"O Estado de São Paulo\" and \"Diário de São Paulo\" from the 1910\'s, 1920\'s and 1930\'s, and the files and manager board acts from Club Athletico Paulistano. The brazilian progress trough the Olympic Movement starts in 1912 and received a major Portuguese influence by its Olympic members, and also by the oligarchic nature of the IOC. The second BOC foundation in 1935 is marked by brazilian sports institutionalization and the resulting disputes for different sports representation
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Shirai, Hiromasa. "The evolving vision of the Olympic legacy : the development of the mixed-use Olympic parks of Sydney and London." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/956/.
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In the long history of Olympic urbanisation, the creation of an “Olympic Park” where various Olympic facilities are concentrated has been favoured by both host cities and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), due to the regenerative opportunity it presents and its management advantages during the Games. Yet the usages and financial viability of such an approach after the Games were questioned by past Olympic cities, such that turning the post-Olympic Park into a multifunctional “mixed-use” urban precinct rather than a mono-functional sporting quarter was the approach taken in Sydney and London. This thesis explores the evolution of the mixed-use vision, its governance and integration into the wider urban tissues in the pre-bid, post-bid and post-Olympic phases, through the cases of the Sydney and London Olympic Parks, and highlights the evolution from Sydney to London. This long-term analysis shows that the vision of the mixed-use Olympic Park originated as a mixture of the existing urban socio-economic aspiration and the specific spatial demands of the Olympic Games. This evolved in different planning climates, along with changes in the governance of the Olympics and legacy planning. I argue that while in the case of Sydney the governance of the legacy in each phase was confined within the designated planning timeframe and focused on the vision within the Olympic Park, London’s approach was more overlapping and extended beyond the boundary of the Olympic site, which created a considerable difference in terms of the realisation of the initial mixed-use vision and integration with adjacent neighbourhoods. Although the thesis traces the evolution from Sydney to London, it also suggests how these cities shared the limits of their entrepreneurial urban governance through the application of the public–private partnership model to legacy planning and challenges in satisfying both local and regional political aspirations for the post-Olympic Park.
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Ferguson, Lillian. "Collaboration for cross-boundary protected area management : focus on the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary and Olympic National Park /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6211.
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Cho, Ji Hyun. "The Seoul Olympic Games and Korean society : causes, context and consequences." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2009. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/12893.
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The overall aim of the research project is to investigate the alms and the consequences of the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games. The Seoul Olympics took place over twenty years ago, and the event has had a significant impact on South Korean society which is best explained by reference to theories of globalization and mega events. The project uses qualitative methods and a variety of data sources to evaluate the domestic impact of the Games in relation to culture, politics, sport, and economics. The analysis is contextualised within an understanding of Korean history with specific reference to Japanese colonialism and relations between North and South Korea. Particular attention is paid to the decision by most of the Communist bloc to participate in the Seoul Olympics, despite a North Korean boycott. The thesis also examines the reasons that lay behind Seoul wiuning the right to host the Games, as well as the postGames consequences, both of which are addressed using empirical data drawn from interviews and documentary evidence. Having addressed the evidence within the context of wider sociological debate concerning globalisation, the thesis concludes that South Korea's political, economic, cultural and sporting interests were well served by the Seoul Olympic Games, and that hosting a mega-event of this scale helped to accelerate South Korea's modernisation process and its emergence on the global stage.
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MacKenzie, Julia Dawn. "Moving towards sustainability in the Olympic Games planning process /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2006. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2678.
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Hayes, James A. "Fiscal impacts of the Olympic Games : a comparative analysis of 1984 Los Angeles and 1996 Atlanta." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24113.
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