How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics
help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact …

The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event—a
global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie …

The purpose of this study is to present the current state of scientific knowledge on the Winter
Olympic Games (2000 to present-day) and their urban and tourism-related impacts. To …

Names: Gold, John R., 1949–editor.| Gold, Margaret M., editor. Title: Olympic cities: city
agendas, planning and the world's games, 1896-2032/edited by John R. Gold and Margaret …

Sport and politics have long been linked, but the Olympic Games represent the most political
sports event of all. The following article focuses on two of the most important aspects of the …

This chapter will review legacy-management processes that have emerged in the last
decade and comment on their effectiveness. Because legacy-management processes are …

Sport on television is big business, but it is about more than just commerce. Using a range of
national case studies from Europe and beyond, this book analyses the political, economic …

A range of recent academic, policy and practice-focused work in the UK and internationally
has identified a need for more focused attention on the role of digital literacies in enabling …

Some forms of argumentation are best performed through words. However, there are also
some forms of argumentation that may be best presented visually. Thus, this paper …

The 2010 FIFA World Cup was heralded by mainstream media outlets, the local organisers,
the South African government and FIFA as an unequivocal success. The month-long …