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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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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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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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Staalstroem, Jannicke. "The Influence of the Youth Olympic Games Education Program on Athletes." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/26765.
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The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) is an international event introduced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for youth aged 14–18 years. First held in 2010 and alternating every two years between summer and winter sports, the YOG differs from the Olympic Games because it is a mix of sport and education. While several studies have examined this new mode of international sport, most have focused on traditional concerns such as performance, sports science and coaching but failed to examine the unique feature of the combined sporting and educational focus. This thesis addresses this gap, and examines the influence of the YOG education program on athletes by focussing on the five key themes which underpin it: Olympism, skill development, social responsibility, well-being and healthy lifestyle, and expression.
This study applied a mixed methods approach and collected data from athletes who attended one of the first four YOG: Singapore 2010, Innsbruck 2012, Nanjing 2014, or Lillehammer 2016. The quantitative data was from a survey of 173 athletes from Singapore and Norway, 2 to 8 years after they attended, and the qualitative data was from 30 semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed using correlation analysis and regression modelling. The semi-structured interviews provided a broader understanding of the survey results.
Results demonstrated, that the YOG education program is successful as it had a positive influence on the lives of the athletes. Specifically, while the theme of Olympism did not meet its educational targets, the other four themes were more influential on athletes. Other results included: athlete role models were the most effective method to teach the objectives of the five themes; the younger the athletes were, the more pronounced the learning that took place; and in general females and Norwegians were less influenced by the YOG activities.
Although the study demonstrates that athletes are being influenced by the YOG education program, there are still opportunities to improve the program and several recommendations are made. Further research should build on and verify these findings with a more representative sample including more nations.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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ABSTRACT
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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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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Frawley, Stephen Michael. "Organising Sport at the Olympic Games: THe Case Study of Sydney." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366310.
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Organising the Olympic Games is a highly complex management task
that involves many individuals and stakeholder groups. In 2000, Australia’s
largest city, Sydney, staged the Summer Olympic Games. The agency given
primary responsibility for the staging of these Games was the Sydney
Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG). Two additional
organisations also played a significant role in the organisation of the Sydney
Games. These two organisations were the Australian Olympic Committee
(AOC) and the New South Wales (NSW) Government.
This doctoral research investigated the part played by the AOC, as the
host national Olympic committee (NOC), in the organisation of the Sydney
2000 Olympic Games. The study examined the AOC’s involvement in the
establishment of an independent Olympic agency that was called the SOCOG
Sports Commission (SSC). The research explored the impact of the SSC on the
organisation and management of the SOCOG Sport Program at the Sydney
Games, which was managed by a SOCOG functional area known as the
SOCOG Sport Program. The study investigated how the organisational power
relations maintained by the AOC, through the formation of the SSC, influenced
and shaped the management of the SOCOG Sport Program, and whether as a
result of this involvement the organisation of sport received a high priority
within SOCOG.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Business School
Griffith Business School
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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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Kuziak, Natalya. "The environmental impact of the winter Olympic games." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10967.
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Hutton, Anne K. "The Olympic Games, lessons for future host cities." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63528.pdf.
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Bonneau, Katherine M. "An Inevitable Relationship: The Olympic Games & Politics." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/364.
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By observing each unique Olympic Game, it is evident that some games were more successful than others at creating an event that is based solely around the concept of a unified sporting culture. Looking at some of the most controversial Olympics in history, it is interesting to see how the host city selection, government, political atmosphere of the time, and the games themselves defined the overall nature of the event. The Berlin Olympics of 1936, the Mexico City Olympics of 1968, the Munich Olympics of 1972, and the Beijing Olympics of 2008 are each very different and occurred at very different times. However, they all ultimately have one thing in common; politics found a way to be the defining factor in each situation. Regardless of how hard a host city attempts to honor the Olympic Charter's goal of creating an atmosphere of unity and peace, politics is omnipresent. "In the words of former International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage, politics is a 'savage monster' always ready to ravage the Olympic movement" (Cha, 5).
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van, Luijk Nicolien. "The 2010 Winter Olympic Games: (re)framing protest." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31134.
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Previous research has shown that the organization of Olympic Games has had a negative impact on the civil liberties of host communities, including the right to peaceful protest (Lenskyj, 2002). The purpose of this research was to examine how individuals participating in anti-Olympic events (re)framed the right to protest in public space during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. Three research questions guided the study, (i) what are protestor perspectives on how Olympic organizers are framing this issue (ii) how are protestors re-framing the issue, and (iii) what is their assessment of the challenges encountered?
The basis of my theoretical framework is the notion that space is socially constructed and that different actors continuously contest the use of public space (Lefebvre, 1991). In the context of the Olympic Games the use of public space is protected by the dominant actors (e.g., Olympic organizers) and challenged by subordinate actors in the organizational field, in this case those protesting against the Games. This study also drew on the theoretical concepts of institutional logics and framing processes from the Organizational Studies and the Social Movement Theory literature respectively (McAdam & Scott, 2005). These concepts are used to describe the cognitive processes that shaped the behaviours of Olympic organizers and protest participants in relation to the right to protest in public space.
The study involved observations of fifteen anti-Olympic events, one-on-one interviews with six protest participants, and an analysis of related documents. The research found that Olympic organizers operated under three major logics of Olympism, security, and sport and nationalism, which framed protestors in ways that delegitimized their perspectives and limited their access to public space. Protest participants re-framed organizer logics by utilizing civil liberties and corporatization as counter-logics to legitimize their right to be present in public spaces during the Games. While the re-framing engaged in by protestors provided some success, the findings suggest that the dominant logics of the Games maintained long-term power and control over spatial practices. The aim of this study was to fill a gap in the existing critical Olympic literature by examining perspectives of protest participants‟ first-hand.
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Temporin, Giorgia <1994>. "Beijing Winter Olympic Games: social and environmental impacts." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/14831.
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L' obiettivo della tesi è analizzare gli impatti sociali e ambientali relativi alle future Olimpiadi invernali del 2022 che si terranno a Pechino. La ricerca analizza le procedure olimpiche e si occupa in particolare dei luoghi che ospiteranno le Olimpiadi del 2022. Il caso di studio si occupa delle implicazioni dell'inclusione di Yangqing, riserva naturale, nel piano olimpico.
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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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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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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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Ho, Kwan-yu, and 何君瑜. "The 2008 Olympic games and the development of Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007500.
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Zhao, Xiang. "The economic impact of the 2008 beijing olympic games." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1572.
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Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree
MAGISTER TECHNOLOGIAE IN TOURISM AND EVENT MANAGEMENT
Faculty of Business
CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
2014Sporting events like the Beijing Olympic Games have grown big, and have assumed increased importance on a global scale. The hosting of mega-events such as the Olympics comes with many challenges that have to be dealt with. For this reason, an understanding of the impact of the Olympic Games for the Chinese economy was important to the host community both before and after the Games. This study investigated the impact of the Beijing Olympic Games and set out to understand the problems and challenges in more detail, and to examine the implementation of the plans and the realisation of the anticipated benefits. Sporting events attracting large numbers of visitors to a host city are likely to have negative impacts like noise, heavy traffic and overcrowding, and a large number of visitors, results in excessive waste and energy use, compromises water quantity and quality, disturbs natural environments and processes, and disrupts local activities. A mixed method research design was used, involving a literature search to obtain secondary data, and then two phases of data collection: the interviewing of government officials responsible for the Olympic Games organisation, and a questionnaire-based survey. Despite limited data collection success during the first phase, a 54 per cent response rate to the survey was significant and was used to obviate the some of the limitations of the first phase. Consequent on the award of hosting rights in 2001 both government officials and the people of China were enthusiastic; the event was perceived to be positive socially and economically, and people looked forward to courteously meeting with and working with people from other countries. However, not all experiences were positive and some expected benefits were found to be over-estimated. This study found that the 2008 Beijing Olympics had significant impact on the Chinese economy and on other aspects of life in China. Four areas of impact (security threat, environmental pollution, social cultural, and economic) were established and used to develop hypotheses and variables that were tested for their significance. 17 of the 25 variables showed statistical significance while eight of them did not. On the basis of this, it was concluded that the Beijing Olympics had a generally significant positive impact on the Chinese economy, with few perceived security threats and no perceived environmental pollution problems.
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Ho, Kwan-yu. "The 2008 Olympic games and the development of Beijing /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2005. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31573204.
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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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Au-yeung, Wan-man Billy. "Gaining from olympic games legacy on land use improvement a study on Beijing 2008 games /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42930443.
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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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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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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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This item is only available in print in the UCF Libraries. If this is your Honors Thesis, you can help us make it available online for use by researchers around the world by following the instructions on the distribution consent form at http://library.ucf.edu/Systems/DigitalInitiatives/DigitalCollections/InternetDistributionConsentAgreementForm.pdf You may also contact the project coordinator, Kerri Bottorff, at kerri.bottorff@ucf.edu for more information.Bachelors
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Olson, Erik Johan. "Rescinding a Bid: Stockholm's uncertain relationship with the Olympic Games." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82866.
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The City of Stockholm has undergone a curious process of considering whether to launch a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. That Stockholm has contemplated launching a bid is not surprising from a regional perspective—the Olympic Games have not been held in a Scandinavian country since Lillehammer, Norway played host in 1994 and Sweden has never hosted the Winter Olympics. A potential bid from Stockholm would also be consistent with Sweden's self-identification and embracement of being a 'sportive nation'. Failed applications by the Swedish cities of Gothenburg, Falun, and Östersund to host the Winter Olympic Games confirm the long-standing interest of the Swedish Olympic Committee to secure the Games, although it should be noted that the Swedish Olympic Committee did not submit a bid for the 2006, 2010, 2014 or 2018 Winter Olympic Games competitions. Although recent reports indicate that Stockholm will not vie for the 2026 Winter Olympic Games, the notion that the city was even considering the option remains surprising. Stockholm had withdrawn its bid from the 2022 bidding competition citing a variety of concerns including a lack of government and public support, financial uncertainty, as well as the post-event viability of purpose-built infrastructure. Stockholm's withdrawal from the 2022 competition resonates with the growing apprehension by potential bid cities (especially those emerging from democratic countries) towards the Olympic Games. This thesis seeks to illustrate that Stockholm's Olympic hopes have book-ended a transformative period in the Olympic bidding process and to expose the struggle that bid cities have in adjusting to the demands of the IOC's bidding process.Master of Science
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Schuler, Margaret Louise. "The culture of the olympic games from Australian athletes' perspectives." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2003. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15833/1/Margaret_Schuler_Thesis.pdf.
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Specifically, this study is about the effects of culture, organisational culture and postmodernism on the Olympic Games and the perceptions of Australian Olympic athletes, both past and present and their understanding of the culture of the Olympic Games. The focus of this research examines the culture of the Olympic Games and provides insights into the background of the Games from Australian athlete's perspective. The study explores this theme further in order to understand those areas of culture which Australian athletes rarely get the opportunity to talk about and thereby offers the occasion to open new avenues for research into the culture of organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee. Furthermore, the thesis probes into the culture of the Olympic Games using the theoretical structures of Organisational Culture and Postmodernism to provide a better understanding and knowledge base for the discipline. Also, the research reports upon the athlete's perspectives in the light of the two previous theoretical structures. In spite of these previous points, little is known regarding the cultural aspects of the Olympic Games and even less is known of the culture of the Olympic Games from the athletes' perspective. Participants in an Olympic Games - athletes, officials, dignitaries, press, technicians and support personnel all experience the cultural mix of individuals at the Games first hand. However, it would certainly be of importance to understand how athletes communicate and relate to each other and how all participants within the Olympic Games organisation relate and communicate with each other. However, there is a need to acknowledge that politics exists within the Olympic Games and that its existence should be brought out of the background and placed on the agenda so that political action within the Games can be avoided in order that they might function more effectively and at a higher standard. A knowledge of culture and politics and the pitfalls and problems associated with change in the Olympic Games would support the building between individual athletes rather than allow conflict and competition to occur. This implies that, if individuals can work together without having to consider politics, then the system will benefit.
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Schuler, Margaret Louise. "The Culture of the Olympic Games from Australian Athletes' Perspectives." Queensland University of Technology, 2003. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/15833/.
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Specifically, this study is about the effects of culture, organisational culture and postmodernism on the Olympic Games and the perceptions of Australian Olympic athletes, both past and present and their understanding of the culture of the Olympic Games. The focus of this research examines the culture of the Olympic Games and provides insights into the background of the Games from Australian athlete's perspective. The study explores this theme further in order to understand those areas of culture which Australian athletes rarely get the opportunity to talk about and thereby offers the occasion to open new avenues for research into the culture of organisations, such as the International Olympic Committee. Furthermore, the thesis probes into the culture of the Olympic Games using the theoretical structures of Organisational Culture and Postmodernism to provide a better understanding and knowledge base for the discipline. Also, the research reports upon the athlete's perspectives in the light of the two previous theoretical structures. In spite of these previous points, little is known regarding the cultural aspects of the Olympic Games and even less is known of the culture of the Olympic Games from the athletes' perspective. Participants in an Olympic Games - athletes, officials, dignitaries, press, technicians and support personnel all experience the cultural mix of individuals at the Games first hand. However, it would certainly be of importance to understand how athletes communicate and relate to each other and how all participants within the Olympic Games organisation relate and communicate with each other. However, there is a need to acknowledge that politics exists within the Olympic Games and that its existence should be brought out of the background and placed on the agenda so that political action within the Games can be avoided in order that they might function more effectively and at a higher standard. A knowledge of culture and politics and the pitfalls and problems associated with change in the Olympic Games would support the building between individual athletes rather than allow conflict and competition to occur. This implies that, if individuals can work together without having to consider politics, then the system will benefit.
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Au-yeung, Wan-man Billy, and 歐陽允文. "Gaining from olympic games legacy on land use improvement: a study on Beijing 2008 games." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42930443.
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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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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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Tzanoudaki, Stephany. "The transition of the Olympic city from visual representations Of Coubertin's modern ideal to city representations as fashionable images." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9380.
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My interest in this particular subject, involving the analysis of design and architectural proposals for the Olympic city, derives from an earlier MPhil study, completed in 2001 (see section 3.1.2). My PhD research gave me the chance to further my investigation in this subject and focus on the role of Olympic design and architecture and the analysis of the material that describes the aesthetic character and language of host cities. By writing this thesis, I have connected, the Olympic city subject with critical theory involving issues of modern cities’ changing urban, social and cultural identities, reflected in their represented image, and I have also used methods of visual analysis. Within the course of the last ten years of my research in this field, I realised that there is a research gap in the investigation of the visual identity of different Olympic cities. This research gap consists of a lack of research that attempts a critical review of the role of Olympic architecture and design since the first Summer Olympic Games in Athens 1896 and also a lack of examination and critical analysis of the visual (and descriptive) material available in the Olympic cities’ archives. More specifically, this analysis involves questions about: - the production of a ‘visual identity’ (i.e. information about the producer of this identity, the design criteria and influences, such as technological and ideological); - the relationship of this identity with the surrounding urban, social and cultural environment: ‘what knowledge is being deployed and whose knowledge is excluded from this representation’ (Rose, 2007, p.259); 10 - the changes in how this identity is communicated and perceived (changes in the audience, in the perception of the event as a spectacle, in media and in the means of communication involved). My research journey, from the gathering of the necessary material to the writing up of this thesis, has involved a historical review of archives from different sources (libraries, organising committees and the press). It has also involved a review of theories that facilitated the interpretation of the Olympic city development as a visual identity, placed within a historical and sociocultural context. Methodologically, therefore, this study is a synthesis based on both the gathering of secondary data and also critical theory on art, design and architecture and on cities’ urban and social development. The work of the following researchers has been especially useful in exploring many of the thesis’ arguments: theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch who are concerned with the modern city development; David Harvey, Fredric Jameson, Jean Baudrillard and Zygmunt Bauman, who examine the transformations in twentieth century social and cultural conditions (modernism and postmodernism); and also Sharon Zukin, Kevin Robins, and Anna Klingmann, who examine the social and cultural transformations in contemporary urban development. In this study, I also focus on the idea of transition and, therefore, on Olympic city examples that have made an immense effort to create a visual identity or alter the ways that people visually experienced them. I have been particularly interested in case studies that, with their design and architectural ideas and the ways they visually communicated the identity of a place, contributed to the transition of the Olympic city in its development as a visual identity. I suggest that, in addition to the examination of the Olympic city development as an urban plan (changing in size and scale and engaging with new technologies) and also as an international event (emerging to a mega-event), there is another type of development in Olympic design and architecture that is worth exploring, that of the Olympic city as a visual identity. 11 The original ideas in this thesis have to do with the development of the Olympic city as a visual identity and, therefore, with: - the analysis of visual material (photographs, maps, plans, pictures from the press and posters) and written material (from the Official Olympic reviews, the press, books, letters and speeches) having to do with Olympic cities since the Summer Olympic Games in Athens 1896. - the analysis of this material by interpreting the characteristics (design criteria, and priorities, who takes decisions and who is the image maker) behind each Olympic city’s design and architecture proposals. This analysis considers the promoted urban, social and cultural profile of the host city, but also considers any alternative (different from the represented) urban, social and cultural identity of the host city. - the selection of examples from the Olympic cities' visual identities that best represent the Olympic city as a transition from the modern to the postmodern era, based on characteristics from these visual identities that have faded, altered or been abolished and also characteristics that have been emphasised and promoted. Many of these characteristics changed the contemporary shape and represented profile not only of Olympic cities but also of cities in general. - the critical analysis of the role of design and architecture in the representation of an Olympic city, reflected in the characteristics of its visual identity.
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Sigurgeirsdottir, Rosa Björk. "Icelandic Athletes’ Experiences of the Olympic Games as a Career Transition." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för hälsa och samhälle (HOS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-23161.
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The aim of this study was to examine Icelandic elite athletes’ experiences in regard to the Olympic Games (OG)-2012. More specifically the focus was on the OG as a career transition process covering several phases in the Olympic cycle, having the Games as its culmination and followed by a career change. The athletic career transition model, the holistic lifespan perspective and temporal structure of the Olympic cycle guided retrospective interviews with six Icelandic athletes who (some years ago) were candidates to take part in the OG-2012. Among the six participants three were successful in the OG-2012, one was less successful and two participants prepared but were not qualified for the OG. Holistic-content and categorical-content analyses resulted in: (a) six core narratives describing and interpreting each athlete’s individual pathway through preliminary/basic preparation, selection process, Olympic season, the Games, and post-Games periods, and (b) sixteen themes following athletes’ major foci in each transition phase (e.g., “gaining international experience” and “getting financial support” in the preliminary/basic preparation, etc.) and also the transition resources perceived by athletes as necessary during the whole Olympic cycle (“prioritizing sports while balancing sport with work/school”, “organizational support” and “family support”). Results are discussed in relation to the theoretical frameworks, previous research, and Icelandic context.
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Persson, Christer. "The process of host selection for the 2002 Olympic winter games." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26613.
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Lorenzini, Pietro <1993>. "Knowledge Management and Transfer of Olympic Games: Road to Paris 2024." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/13283.
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My purpose is to facilitate future agents in the organization and development of an Olympic event, having clear in mind scenarios of past editions and how to manage and transfer this knowledge. In particular I will address to the people in charge of Paris 2024.
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Lawson, Shawna. "A blueprint for change? : exploring how the London organizing committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) framed Olympic 'sustainability partner' BP." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/58791.
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The London Organizing Committee of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) came under substantial public scrutiny regarding several of its corporate partnerships (Gibson, 2012; Smedley, 2012). Specifically, a number of resistance groups mobilized around LOCOG’s selection of BP (formerly British Petroleum) as a ‘sustainability partner’. In pledging to host the first ‘truly sustainable Games’, this partnership appeared paradoxical to some, as BP has a history marred by environmental degradation and disaster – most notably the Deep Water Horizon oil spill of 2010 (National Commission, 2011; World Wildlife Foundation, 2007; Mattera, 2010). This thesis critically examines how LOCOG framed the BP-LOCOG relationship – focusing specifically on how the Games’ organizing committee promoted certain interpretations of ‘sustainability’ through this partnership. By examining numerous public relations texts produced by LOCOG, I show how the organizing committee framed BP as not only a ‘key partner’, but also as an ‘expert and motivator’ around sustainability – and suggest that the ‘specialty’ designations awarded to BP facilitated these framings. Further, I argue that a number of explicit and underlying assumptions were revealed in LOCOG’s justifications and framing of this partnership. These include: a) collaboration is a key strategy for dealing with environmental problems, b) innovation comes from business and is a key solution to environmental problems, c) growth and sustainability are compatible, and d) ‘the Games must go on’ despite environmental consequences. I then discuss potential problems with these seemingly innocuous assumptions and framings – concentrating especially on how particular responses to environmental problems are presented as the ‘only’ responses. This thesis concludes with reflections on the study’s contributions to the area of sport mega-events and the environment. Particular attention is paid to the value of studying the public relations strategies of Games’ organizing committees, deconstructing the role of partnerships in the framing of a sustainable Olympics, and investigating the way that consensus around particular responses to environmental issues is sought through responsive PR practices.Education, Faculty of
Kinesiology, School of
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Malfas, Maximos. "An analysis of the organisational configurations over the life cycle of the Sydney organising committee for the Olympic Games." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2003. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7593.
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Marcigliano, Teo Giovanni. "Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Gender in Media: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/24042/.
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The aim of this dissertation is to further the reader’s insight and understanding of
discrimination in the context of human rights, in particular in the field of gender
and transgender studies. This work will carry out an analysis of different
newspaper articles regarding the recent Olympic games which took place in
Tokyo. In specific, the articles regard the transgender athletes who, for the first
time in the history of the games, competed in the gender category of their choice,
despite the International Olympic Committee allowing transgender athletes to
compete since 2004. The analysis will be based on articles written by both Italian
and American newspapers in order to get a double point of view on the matter.
Moreover, we’ll look at the differences between news publications based on their
country of origin, in an attempt to understand whether the peculiarities of the two
languages have influenced both the rhetoric of what’s being said and the very
message they convey.
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Harris, L. "Britain and the Olympic Games 1908-1920 : perspectives on participation and identity." Thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, 2013. http://create.canterbury.ac.uk/13302/.
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This thesis examines Britain’s relationship with the Olympic Games between 1908 and 1920, a period which witnesses Britain’s first serious entrance into the Olympics and the development of the Olympic Games into the movement which it is today. This thesis uses the British media as the primary source to analyse and examine the development of the nation’s attitudes and identities towards the Olympics. The Games of this period, from London (1908), Stockholm (1912), Antwerp (1920), along with the preparations for the aborted 1916 Berlin Olympics are considered. The reaction to the British performance at each of the Olympics is the main focus of the research. There is also extensive examination into the periods in between the Games, as at this time the most plentiful discussion regarding the British approach appears, particularly that after the Stockholm Olympics. In an attempt to create a well rounded picture of how the Olympics are perceived across Britain, sections of the press in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales have been examined. Throughout the thesis there are reoccurring themes that appear. British perspectives towards the Olympics and their own identity are considered, and throughout there is analysis regarding this. Athletics is at the centre of British Olympic involvement, but field events are viewed as a poorer cousin to track events by those in England in particular, this thesis examines this identity. The period of this thesis is prominently remembered for the First World War, and consequently the relationship between Britain and Germany from an Olympic perspective is examined.
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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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Chantrel, Pauline, and Agathe Fourcade. "Is there a difference between the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games in their impact on inbound tourism?" Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-85766.
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This paper studies the difference in number of tourist arrivals between the Olympic games and the Paralympic games in the hosting countries. Using the difference-in-differences method, results show that there is a difference in the number of tourist arrivals between the summer games and winter games, and that hosting the games have a bigger impact on smaller city than on bigger one. They also show that since Vancouver 2010 the Olympic games always attracted more tourists than the Paralympic games. The main conclusion of this paper is that there is definitely a difference in the tourist inflow between the Olympic games and Paralympic games and that the Olympic games attract more tourists than the Paralympic games.
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Aragon, Ruiz Antonio. "Learning from the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympic Games about Aboriginal peoples of Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3090.
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This research examines the ways in which the Vancouver Olympics emblem, an Inuit inuksuk, and other Aboriginal symbols have been ‘adopted’ by the organizers of the 2010
Winter Olympics, how visual and textual Aboriginal representations have been incorporated into the public education mandate of the Games, and how this relates to the Aboriginal Participation Goals of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC). I use Freirian critical cultural pedagogy and Foucauldian theories along with a visual research method, semiotic analysis, as a way to examine the material presented on the official Vancouver 2010 Olympic website and related websites.
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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.