The study of sport event legacies has grown rapidly since 2000 across a number of
disciplines related to planning and hosting large-scale sport events. However, to date, there …

Sport-tourism events create a broad spectrum of impacts on and for host communities.
However, sustainable sport-tourism events, which emphasize positive impacts, and …

Abstract The Olympic Games claim to be exemplars of sustainability, aiming to inspire
sustainable futures around the world. Yet no systematic evaluation of their sustainability …

Summary Pre-Olympic Games predictions commonly include an increase in population-
based physical activity in the host city, as often stated in the bid, but the post-Olympic Games …

Large-scale sport events help attract a wide range of attendees, resulting in various
implications for the host community. This paper is concerned with understanding the legacy …

Legacy has become a watchword of hosting mega-events in recent years, used to justify
massive spending and far-reaching urban transformations. However, academic studies of …

Policy makers often legitimize bids for major sport events and public funding of elite sports
by trickle-down effects, suggesting that hosting events, sporting success, and athlete role …

This article explores why sports participation of people with disabilities in England has
declined since the London 2012 Paralympic Games (LPG). Thirty semistructured interviews …

Purpose Sporting events are the core of sport tourism. However, when it comes to business
models (BM) in the context of event sport tourism, that is, how value is created and delivered …

Sports mega‐events, such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games, have the potential to
inspire increases in population physical activity, yet investigations concerning such legacy …