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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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Haberl, Peter. "Peak performance at the Olympics: an in-depth psycho-social case study of the 1998 U.S. Women's Olympic Ice Hockey Team." Thesis, Boston University, 2001. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/33480.
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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of selected psycho-social factors associated with the gold medal winning peak performance of the 1998 Women's Olympic Ice Hockey Team. These psycho-social factors were grouped into six specific purposes: cohesion and coaching, team confidence, team-specific ideal performance states, individual confidence, individual task-specific ideal performance states, Olympic stress, and coping methods. In-depth interviews using a two-part interview guide were conducted with all 20 team members. Hierarchical content analysis procedures were used to analyze the interview data. Method triangulation in the form of quantitative instruments, source triangulation, analyst triangulation and member checks were utilized to support the credibility of the interview data. Results showed that the team was highly cohesive and confident. Primary sources of cohesion were the commitment to a common goal, mutual trust and acceptance, and coaching actions. Cohesion was considered to contribute significantly to performance. Sources of confidence were performance accomplishments, coaching, cohesion and perceived readiness. The team reported a very strong relationship with the head coach, who was considered highly effective. Collectively, the team did experience task-specific, ideal peliormance states at various times in selected games at the Olympics. On an individual level , athletes reported high confidence based on peliormance accomplishments, constructive feedback, role clarity, and effective preparation. Due to their preparation the athletes experienced few stressors and coped effectively with them. lndi vidually, the athletes also experienced ideal peliormance states during selected games at the Olympics. However, these states were fragile and not present for the entire duration of a game. The description of taskspecific, ideal peliormance states, collectively as well as individually, matched Csikszentmihalyi's (1990) theoretical model of flow. Unambiguous feedback was a particularly salient flow dimension for these team sport athletes. From a team development perspective, the team achieved the performing stage of its development at the Olympics characterized by high cohesion and confidence, role clarity, acceptance, and commitment as well as strong leadership and ideal peliormance states. Strength and limitations as well as practical implication of these findings with regards to preparing the team for 2002 were discussed.
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Butler, Katie S. "Olympism : myth and reality : British media portrayals of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2005. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34850.
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The purpose of this study was to explore the portrayal of Olympism in the British media coverage of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games. A figurational framework was implemented in making sense of the interdependencies that exist in the sport-Olympic-media complex. Coubertin, as the founder of the modern Games, established the Olympics with Olympism as the ideology underpinning them. Still today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) maintains that these principles are central to the Games (IOC website, 2004). In this examination, the question of whether the presence of Olympism is a myth or reality in the mediated version of the Games was addressed. A qualitative content analysis was carried out of the British press and BBC television coverage of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics. Using a coding system, themes relating to Olympism were searched for and, where found, evidenced. Working inductively, any other themes which emerged from the data were also identified. The findings demonstrated that there was a general absence of ideas relating to Olympism in the British media coverage of the Games. Instead, the dominant themes or characteristics which emerged were: politics; a nationalistic bias; gendered treatment of athletes; and a focus on high performance sport. It is proposed that this framing of the Games directly opposes several elements of the Olympic ideology: international understanding; cultural exchange; equal opportunity for all; and the separation of sport and politics. The conclusions drawn from this study are that whilst the IOC is a significant body in sportisation, and global processes more broadly, it is by no means all powerful. The Olympics retain their place at the forefront of world sporting competition only when interpreted as reflecting the dominant ideology of the time, that is, the achievement sport ethic and capitalist consumption. The IOC and media institutions are highly interdependent, however, the media institutions retain a degree of autonomy which means they are able to frame the Olympics in a way which suits their own needs: those of consumption. Any elements of the IOC's own, alternative, ideology (assuming that the ideology stated is actually that which is of central interest) which do not fit with the dominant sport model do not feature in the mediated public experience of the Games.
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Li, Xi. "The impact of mega-sporting events on stock markets a dissertation submitted to Auckland University of Technology in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business (MBus), 2007." Abstract. Full dissertation, 2007.
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Bertram, Christopher D. "Factors that effect interagency collaboration lessons during and following the 2002 Winter Olympics /." Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://bosun.nps.edu/uhtbin/hyperion-image.exe/08Mar%5FBertram.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2008.Thesis Advisor(s): Hocevar, Susan ; Jansen, Erik. "March 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 28, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-69). Also available in print.
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Bertram, Christopher D. "Factors that effect interagency collaborations : lessons during and following the 2002 Winter Olympics." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/4275.
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CHDS State/LocalCollaboration is a critical component of homeland security. During the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Utah, 11,000 public safety officers came together from federal, state and local agencies and successfully protected the games. This collaboration ensured the safety of more than 3.5 million visitors to the state, including athletes and foreign dignitaries. Six years after the Games and the 9/11 terror attacks, however, law enforcement agencies at every level have, at times, struggled to successfully implement collaborations on a continuing and consistent basis. Creating collaborations that endure is an important issue for public safety organizations. What are the key factors or enablers that foster an environment in which collaborations can be sustained? Based on twenty-two interviews with law enforcement leaders involved in the 2002 Winter Olympics, several factors were identified that impact the effectiveness and endurance of collaborations. These factors include motivation, felt need, leadership, trust and social capital, and a formalized system of roles and procedures. Leaders play an important role in a collaborative effort. By implementing a strategic plan, for example, leaders can increase the level of motivation for collaboration, even if there is no immediate need for a collaborative effort. This study found that enablers for continued collaborations after the 2002 Winter Olympics included leadership, trust and social capital, and felt need. The major explanations for the discontinuation of other Olympic collaborations were lack of motivation or need, lack of leadership, lack of strategic planning and no mandated system.
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Brown, Jennifer A. "How the Winter Olympics Enrich Community Legacies for Recreational Open Space: A Case Study of Selected European and American Olympic Sites." DigitalCommons@USU, 2003. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3426.
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The Olympics have been a catalyst through the last century for community alteration including both the renovation of existing areas and building of new sites. This study focuses on the post-Olympic use of active and passive recreational open space infrastructure developed by Winter Olympic host cities.
This study examines four Winter Olympics. The observation of a variety of Olympic venues has provided an opportunity to compare the differences in planning due to historical, cultural, and social variables. The comparison of these Olympic sites contributes to understanding of the probability of success or failure of post game expectations for recreational open space use. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the Winter Olympics on the recreational open space infrastructure of host communities. Future Olympic sites can utilize these experiences as part of a planning effort to create a successful community recreational open space legacy.
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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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Anthony, S. Camille. "Utah Wireless Integrated Network (UWIN)." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 2006. http://library.nps.navy.mil/uhtbin/hyperion/06Sep%5FAnthony.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense))--Naval Postgraduate School, September 2006.Thesis Advisor(s): Christopher Bellavita. "September 2006." Includes bibliographical references (p. 51-52). Also available in print.
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Wallman, Andrew. "The Economic Impact of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City." Thesis, Boston College, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/365.
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Thesis advisor: Christopher F. BaumThis paper seeks to estimate the impacts generated from the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games. Using a data set representing 76 metropolitan statistical areas in the western United States, and later 31 metropolitan statistical areas in Utah and its bordering neighbors, I construct an Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data regression that seeks to model metropolitan employment growth had the Olympics never taken place. With this logic I apply the Arellano- Bond regression to real personal income and real average wages, in a vector autoregression framework, estimating gains to those variables over a reasonable timeframe. The predictions from these variables are then compared to actual figures in which a picture of the economic impact of the 2002 Games is generated. Using out of sample predictions I estimate Salt Lake City's Olympic impact in employment is roughly between 20,487 and 36,150 job-years, between $ 381 and $ 2,470 to real per-capita personal income, and a decrease of $ 273 to $ 2004 in real average wages
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2006
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Economics Honors Program
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Van, der Heyden Leonard J. "The 2010 Winter Olympics: A Mixed-Methods Investigation of the Hotel Industry and Tourism in the Demographic Clusters metro–Vancouver versus the alpine–Resort Whistler." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17373.
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In this thesis, applying an innovative postmodern equal-weight/sequential QUAN→PHEN Mixed-Methods Phenomenological Research (‘MMPR’) approach to study an Olympics’ impact within its two-cluster socio-demographic footprint forms its main contribution to knowledge. Facilitating between-methods triangulation is a novel eclectic pragmatic approach that is used to capture the richness of thematic data flowing from in-depth, open-ended interviews with most – 62 in all – senior Hoteliers spread evenly between distinct urban Metro-Vancouver and rural alpine-Whistler, whilst concurrently capitalizing on the availability of a unique BC Stats proprietary micro-municipal-level secondary data source, i.e., British Columbia’s ‘Additional Hotel Room Tax’ (‘AHRT’). Typically, traditional mono-method-positivist neo-classical economic syntheses are used to quantify an Olympic Games’ ex-ante or ex-post impact. This study’s findings confirm that such syntheses attempts, at the micro-municipal level, lead to inevitable dead-ends. At a sub-national level of micro-granularity, using available economic models is an impossible task due to the insurmountable practical problem of complete lack of, or paucity, of data. When applied to assess mega-events, such modelling is shown to lack credibility; models are insufficiently comprehensive or its users consciously engage in ‘shenanigans’ by force-fitting input/output to produce pre-ordained outcomes for political expedience and meeting agency interests. The ‘MMPR’ approach acknowledges and respects the established and ‘current-thinking’ paradigmatic epistemological and ontological perspectives. ‘Hotel Activity’, measured via ‘AHRT’, is substituted as a ‘Proxy’ for ‘Tourism’ following empirically establishing these three variables as highly correlated. Prevalent academic findings of negative impacts from Winter Olympics are not borne out. Phenomenological issues of ‘illusory correlations’ and ‘data saturation’ are addressed.
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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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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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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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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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Pentifallo, Caitlin. "The city and the spectacle : social housing, homelessness, and the 2010 winter Olympic Games." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/53904.
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This dissertation consists of a critical examination of the City of Vancouver’s urban policies during a significant era of urban governance: the lead up to the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. To do so, I will create two embedded case studies: one, featuring the creation of a social housing legacy to be left in the Athletes’ Village in Southeast False Creek, and the other on the enforcement of policies affecting or alleviating homelessness in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. How social housing and homelessness came to be incorporated into the event’s objectives, how the discussions and deliberations around these issues proceeded, and how the 2010 Winter Olympic Games impacted the City of Vancouver’s policy making process in the years leading up to the start of the 2010 Games will all be explored in the chapters to follow. The methodological approach I applied provides insights on how policies, operationalized under the guise of preparing to host a sport mega-event, were able to alter the political and social trajectory of the City of Vancouver. Guided by the overarching theoretical framework offered by critical urban theory, I relied on critical policy studies and critical discourse analysis. By carefully tracing the origins, nature, and intent of these policies as they unfolded in various iterations between 2000 and 2013, it was my ambition to contribute to a broader understanding of how sport mega-events influence urban policies and social outcomes. The 2010 Games, once marketed as a socially inclusive event, instead brought an intense wave of punitive urban measures that functioned to criminalize homelessness. Instead of filling the rooms once occupied by Olympians with those in need of housing, the number of social housing units made available shrunk gradually over time, eventually dwindling to but a handful of units actually constituting social housing. In critically disassembling the policies that bore direct influence on social housing and homelessness, my findings demonstrate the ways in which policy-making processes are altered, abandoned, or exacerbated as the mega-event drew near.Education, Faculty of
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MacNeill, Karen C. "Processes contributing to optimal preparation and performance of Winter Olympic athletes : the athletes' story." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31422.
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The purpose of this investigation was to explore the processes that contribute to optimal preparation and optimal performance of an athlete competing at the Winter Olympic Games. Using narrative methodology, 4 individual sport athletes (2 male, 2 female) who competed at the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in the sports of skeleton, snowboarding, and long track speed skating (one on the all-round team and another on the sprint team) were interviewed using an in-depth, open-ended, semi-structured approach (Rubin & Rubin, 1995). The semi-structured research interview lasted approximately 2-2.5 hours in length, and participants were contacted a second time via email once the data had been analyzed to verify accurate representation of their experience. The qualitative data was analyzed using Lieblich, Tuval-Maschiach, and Zilber (1998) categorical-content narrative analysis approach, which is similar to what is commonly known as content analysis. Narrative accounts, or the athletes' Olympic stories, were also developed through this process. From the narrative analysis, seven themes emerged concerning processes contributing to optimal preparation, and six themes emerged regarding processes contributing to optimal performance. The findings reveal that for optimal preparation of an Olympian, there needs to be development and implementation of a strategic, holistic plan that incorporates processes for balance and recovery, support and mentoring, automating skill and establishing familiarity, and for reflection and monitoring to ensure training potentials are being maximized and that valuable lessons are being extracted. Furthermore, processes contributing to optimal performance at the Olympics require highly functioning self-regulation practices; a level of self-knowledge and self-acceptance that allows detachment from the outcome and freedom to perform authentically; confidence and belief in ability to achieve excellence; perspective, and acceptance and adaptation to current experiences and conditions; focus and engagement in the present moment; and the execution of performance strategies that lead to a high level of performance excellence. Implications for athletes, coaches, and practitioners are discussed, and suggestions for future research are provided.Education, Faculty of
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Dunn, Catharine Hilary. "Aboriginal partnerships for sustainable 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games : a framework for cooperation /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2007. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/9245.
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Research Project (M.R.M.) - Simon Fraser University, 2007.Theses (School of Resource and Environmental Management) / Simon Fraser University. Senior supervisor: Dr. Peter Williams -- School of Resource and Environmental Management. Also issued in digital format and available on the World Wide Web.
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Jones, Jennifer Mackenzie. "#Van2010:An ethnographic study of alternative media communities during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2017. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.735855.
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Orschak-Hannah, Deborah. "A content analysis of Canadian English television coverage of female events during the 1998 Winter Olympic Games." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ38604.pdf.
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Mobilian, Zachary E. "The Economics of Hosting the Olympic Games: The Miscalculation of Cost-Benefit Analyses and Why Cities Continue to Bid." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1264.
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The Olympic Games have become one of the world’s largest and most popular sporting events. With its massive scale, the costs that come with hosting the Games are elevating to unprecedented levels, leaving host cities with massive financial debt. So why do cities continue to bid for the rights to host the Games? In this paper I will attempt to answer this question by providing an overview of the bidding process and the economic impact of the Games and I will argue that the costs of hosting the Olympics are often underestimated while the benefits are greatly overestimated. I will then provide an alternative direction for the Olympic movement.
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MORELLATO, MASSIMO. "Reputational capital and olympic events: a case study of whistler live!" Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/29578.
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Mega events such as the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games present unique opportunities to increase the economic and social capital required by destinations to be competitive on the global tourism stage. Engaging Games and community stakeholders in the networks needed to organize and deliver such events is central to creating sustained and positive legacies. Network building and maintenance can occur at a variety of levels and scales. Effective and sustained networks depend on and are shaped by the social and reputational capital created through the process of managing various dimensions of the event. One of the more recent Games’ dimensions used as a vehicle for creating social capital is the Cultural Olympiad.
This dissertation creates and tests the utility of a conceptual model in identifying how event organizers strategically select stakeholders and nurture network relations to build the reputational capital needed for sustained competitiveness. It builds this model based on premises and principles emerging from literature related to corporate social responsibility, social capital development, reputational capital creation, Olympic mega-event legacies, tourism destination branding and community based sustainability planning. The study tests the model’s usefulness through a case study of the stakeholders, networks, and outcomes created in the development and delivery of Whistler’s portion of the 2010 Winter Games Cultural Olympiad – ‘Whistler Live!’. It explores the ways in which Whistler engaged its stakeholders and partners so as not only to meet its immediate Olympic goals, but also to contribute the longer term reputation and sustainability of the resort community.
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San, Martín Luis Ortega. "Peruvian Chemistry Olympiad, twenty years promoting chemistry among youngsters." Revista de Química, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/100005.
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La olimpiada peruana de Química cumple su vigésimo aniversario y en este artículo se hace una pequeña recopilación de la participación de alumnos en los últimos años, de las regiones de las que proceden y de los éxitos internacionales obtenidos por nuestra delegación.The Peruvian Chemistry Olympiad celebrates its 20th anniversary and, in this report, a short review of the student participation in the event along with their origin and the international results obtained by each year’s winners is given.
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Rizzo, Frank. "Does a Tailored Nine-week Training Intervention Improve Jump Height, Single-leg Stability, and Whole-body Stability Performance in Young Cross-country Skiers?" Thesis, Umeå universitet, Avdelningen för idrottsmedicin, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-181172.
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The purpose of this study was to investigate if a nine-week training intervention composed of different mobility and stability exercises intending to improve jump height, whole-body stability, and single-leg stability of junior cross-country skiers. It was also of interest to see if the test equipment could determine the study participants' potential risk of injury with a built-in injury predictor measurement, Musculoskeletal Health (MSK). A total of 16 cross-country skiers aged 16-20 years, 8 man and 8 women, performed the following tests on a force plate; Jump Scan (i.e., to characterize an individual's dynamic movement strategy), Plank Scan (i.e., to measure the individual's ability to control global static stability across each extremity), and Balance Scan (i.e., the individual's ability to maintain their center of mass over their center of pressure). After the initial scan, participants were assigned to the same nine-week intervention program, with Group 1 performing the program three times each week and Group 2 once each week before performing a post-intervention scan. Using two-way ANOVA showed no significant between-group differences. There was no significant difference when using three-way ANOVA within both intervention groups, except higher CMJ Load scores (p=0.032) and reduction in Plank scores, Plank Left (p=0.024) in male participants. When using logistic regression tests to determine the correlation between jump height (CMJ) outcomes effect on MSK injury risk between groups and within gender, a significant correlation in females was shown (p=0.0280, R=0.46). The present study's results suggest that a 9-week training intervention is not sufficient when training either one or three times per week for improving jump height, whole-body stability, and single-leg stability in junior cross-country skiers.
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Strolia, Mantas. "Lietuvos slidininkų sprinterių rengimas metiniu priešolimpiniu treniruočių ciklu." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100709_134428-77299.
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XXI olimpinės žiemos žaidynės, vykusios 2010 metais Kanados Vankuverio mieste buvo jau šeštos, kuriose startavo Lietuvos sportininkai. XIX olimpinėse žiemos žaidynėse Solt Leik Sityje 2002 metais pirmą kartą į slidinėjimo lenktynių programą buvo įtrauktos sprinto lenktynės, o XX olimpinėse žiemos žaidynėse Turine buvo vykdomos individualios ir komandinės sprinto lenktynės. Vankuverio žiemos olimpinėse žaidynėse Lietuvos slidininkai pirmą kartą startavo komandinio sprinto rungtyje. Šioms sprinto rungtims Lietuvos slidininkai rengėsi specialiai, vykdydami programoje „Vankuveris-2010“ numatytus uždavinius. Vankuverio žiemos olimpinėse žaidynėse tiriamųjų slidininkų sprinterių pasiekti rezultatai sprinto distancijose buvo įvertinti patenkinamai.
Tyrimo tikslas ir uždaviniai - ištirti Lietuvos didelio meistriškumo slidininkų sprinterių rengimo ypatumus metiniu priešolimpiniu ciklu, nustatyti Lietuvos slidininkų sprinterių fizinio išsivystymo, fizinių ir funkcinių galių rodiklių kaitą metiniu rengimosi ciklu, apibendrinti Lietuvos slidininkų sprinterių varžybų sezono rezultatus.
Slidininkų sprinterių rengimo technologija iš esmės skiriasi nuo slidininkų rengimosi ilgesniems nuotoliams. Visgi tai reikėtų pagrįsti moksliniais tyrimais.
Buvo organizuotas dviejų Lietuvos slidininkų sprinterių veiklos tyrimas. Išanalizuotas fizinis krūvis, atliktas metiniu treniruočių ciklu. Atskirų mezociklų veiksmingumui įvertinti buvo atliekami laboratoriniai tyrimai. Buvo matuojami fizinio... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]XXI Olympic Winter Games were held in 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. That was already the sixth Games for the Lithuanian athletes. First time individual sprint was included in the cross-country skiing program in XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City in 2002, after four years in XX Olympic Winter Games in Turin the cross-country skiing program had two sprint events: individual and team sprint. Lithuanian cross-country skiers first time took part in the team sprint event in Vancouver Winter Olympics Games. Lithuanian skiers were prepared specifically for the performance of the program "Vancouver-2010" objectives. The results of the Lithuanian skiers in individual and team sprints events in Vancouver Winter Olympics were assessed as satisfactory. The aims and objectives of research - to explore the cross-country skiing training program features of Lithuanian athletes in the last training macrocycle before Olympics, to estimate changes of physical and functional characteristics of Lithuanian cross-country skier’s sprinters physical development on preparations for the macrocycle, and summarize the results of Lithuanian skiers. Training Technology of cross-country skiers sprinters is basically different than cross-country skiers of longer distant. However, it should be based on scientific research. Sports action research of two Lithuanian cross-country skiers’ sprinters was organized. physical activity of training macrocycle were analyzed. Laboratory tests were conducted to... [to full text]
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Nymark, Marianne Kristine. "The effect of sports diplomacy on inter-Korean relations." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och Turkietstudier, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-157874.
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The purpose of this thesis is to explain how sports events, in which North and South Korea have in some way worked or competed together, have affected the relationship between the two nations. This is carried out through the investigation of specific events; the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, the competing of the joint table tennis- and football teams in 1991, the cooperation happening during the “sunshine policy”, from 1998 until 2008, as well as the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The studied material consists mostly of news reports and scientific works. The result shows that while cooperation in sports is possible between the two Koreas, they have occurred only under favourable political circumstances. It is also concluded that the sports events have in return affected the inter-Korean relationship, and this cooperation has also generated further discussions between the two Koreas, a so called “spillover effect”.Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att förklara hur sportevenemang, i vilka Nord- och Sydkorea har på något sätt samarbetat eller tävlat gemensamt, har påverkat relationen mellan de två länderna. Det här genomförs genom en undersökning av specifika evenemang; 1988 års sommar-OS i Seoul, tävlingarna 1991 där de förenade pingis- och fotbollslagen deltog, samarbetet under ”Solskenspolitiken”, från 1998 till 2008, såväl som 2018 års vinter-OS i Pyeongchang. Underlaget består mestadels utav nyhetsreportage och vetenskapliga rapporter. Resultatet visar att även om samarbete i sport är möjligt mellan de två länderna på den koreanska halvön, har dessa bara inträffat under gynnsamma politiska omständigheter. Det kommer även fram att sportevenemang i sin tur har påverkat den interkoreanska relationen och även genererat fortsatta diskussioner mellan Nord- och Sydkorea, en så kallad ”spridningseffekt".
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McDermott, Marie-Louise. "Wet, wild and convivial : past, present and future contributions of Australia’s ocean pools to surf, beach, pool and body cultures and recreational coasts." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2012. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/517.
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I investigated the past, present and possible futures of Australia’s ocean pools, over a hundred public seawater pools sited on rocky surfcoasts, so that waves wash over their walls. My interdisciplinary analysis informed by actor-‐network theory explored their contributions to surf, beach, pool and body cultures and recreational coasts. Ocean pools have since the nineteenth century been far more significant in the surf, beach, pool and body cultures of Australia and South Africa, than in those of Britain and the United States. Most of Australia’s ocean pools lie within state of New South Wales, and my work strengthens the case for recognising Australian and NSW ocean pools as having distinct collective identities and affinities with their South African counterparts. Ocean pools are sites of social and environmental learning that challenge efforts to establish human mastery over wild natures and depictions of coastal environments as mere stages for enacting human activities unconstrained by non-‐human nature. They also challenge the notion that people prefer to swim and bathe at patrolled beaches or in private or public pools far less wild than an ocean pool. They are evidence that supervision by suitably trained and equipped lifeguards or lifesavers is not the only or the most satisfactory way to adequately safeguard bathers and swimmers from the dangers of the sea. Australia’s ocean pools demonstrate that regardless of race, class, gender, age or ability, people can and do make themselves at home in pools shared convivially with wild nature and well-‐suited for sustained, unsupervised recreation and sport on rocky surfcoast. Ocean pools serve as places of refuge, therapeutic and restorative environments, adventure playgrounds, convivial public spaces, visually appealing cultural landscapes, brands, icons and symbols. Australia’s ocean pools are unified by their sites, their affordances and core actor-‐ networks linked to their fundamental and enduring identity as ‘wild but safe enough surfside pools’. Rocky shores and coastal waters characterised by surf, sharks and rips are among the most persistent macro-‐actors in these networks that include bathers, swimmers, tourism and transport networks, news media, local councils and progress associations. Australian ocean pools that gained a further identity as ‘public pools for competition and carnivals’ acquired additional actor-‐networks strongly linked since the late nineteenth century to amateur swimming clubs and schools, and since the twentieth century to surf lifesaving clubs and winter swimming clubs. Those ocean pools nevertheless, remained predominately recreational facilities. As other types of public pools became more affordable, Australia’s ocean pools remained popular despite gaining new identities as an ‘unusually hazardous type of public pool’ and ‘a type of facility no longer created’. The growing threats to ocean pools and their actor-‐networks are a further unifying factor. As sport and recreation venues cultivating healthy, convivial relationships with wild nature and possessing unrealised potential as centres for community engagement, learning and research, ocean pools are worth emulating on other rocky shores and in other public places. My work strengthens efforts to sustain and create ocean pools and supports further studies on seawater pools and their actor-‐networks.
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張廷飛. "2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Sponsorship announcement and stock reaction." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41208495780460948333.
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Berekoff, Thomas P. "The philanthropic potential of the 2010 XXI Winter Olympics to build the legacies from the games /." 2005. http://www.oregonpdf.org.
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Potwarka, Luke. "Understanding Response to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5815.
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The present study employed Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour (TPB) to understand the motivational factors associated with peoples’ intention to: (a) increase their physical activity levels in response to Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games; (b) watch the event on television; and (c) purchase products or services from companies because they were sponsors of the event. According to the theory, behavioural intentions are determined by individuals’ attitude toward performing the behaviour (i.e., their overall evaluation of the behaviour); the subjective norms they associate with the behaviour (i.e., their beliefs about whether most people approve or disapprove of the behaviour); and perceived behavioural control (i.e., the perceived ease or difficulty of performing the behavior). As well, this investigation hypothesized that additional variables could predict intention. In particular, past behaviour and descriptive norms (i.e., people’s perceptions about the degree to which other people would perform the behavior) were examined in terms of their ability to explain significant proportions of variance in respondents’ intentions above and beyond TPB variables.
Participants were enrolled in first and second year undergraduate classes at the University of Waterloo and the University of Victoria during the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 term (n = 405). The questionnaire assessed each TPB construct (excluding actual behaviour) using standardized Likert-type scaling procedures suggested by Ajzen (2006). Additionally, the questionnaire assessed gender, geographic proximity to the event (i.e., whether students were enrolled at the University of Waterloo or the University of Victoria), past behaviour, and descriptive norms.
Results from the regression analyses revealed that the TPB-based models accounted for 50.7%, 61.5% and 66.6% of the variance in respondents’ intentions to become more active in response to the event, watch the event on television, and purchase products or services from event sponsors respectively. Attitude toward the behaviour was the only TPB construct to play a prominent role in the prediction of all three responses of interest in the present investigation. The importance of the attitude construct in predicting such a diverse set of intentions suggests that sport consumer behaviour might be best understood in terms of expectancy-value cognitive theories such as the TPB. These theories suggest that people will be motivated to perform a particular behaviour (e.g., watching a sport event on television) when they expect to attain a valued outcome as a result of performing the behaviour (e.g., feelings of national pride).
Descriptive norms and past behaviour explained an additional 29%, 9.3%, and 21% of the variance in respondents’ intention to become more active in response to the event, watch the event on television, and patronize event sponsors respectively. Among this sample of undergraduate students, responses to the event appeared to be strongly associated with beliefs about whether or not referent others would perform each behaviour. Additionally, much of what motivates sport consumer behaviour within this segment of the population may be related to notions of tradition and nostalgia. Implications for future research and the design of behaviour change interventions are discussed.
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FU, XIN-YAN, and 付鑫岩. "2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics HALF-PIPE Players Comprehensive Performance Analysis - Take Shaun White as an example." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yxbj2s.
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碩士輔仁大學
體育學系碩士班
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The aim of this study is to investigate the comprehensive performance of Shaun White in half-pipe snowboard finals in 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. The objective of this study is to compare the similarities and differences of champion, second place and third place in terms of the performance, technology, strategy and mark variation and then have a deep understanding on the key factor of Shaun White getting the champion. The research method used in this study are observation and interviews. First the literatures regarding to the key factor that affect half-pipe snowboard are summarized. The focus group interview and depth interview were conducted within 9 experts in this relevant field and the subjects in the interview are all players, coaches and referees in half-pipe snowboard. The results show that 1) compare to the second place and third place candidate, Shaun White has a better comprehensive performance during the competition 2) there is difference between these three candidates in terms of technology and strategy but Shaun White’s choreography is more conducive to scoring the first jump 3) Shaun White The movements used in Shaun Whites competition are more difficult, mainly in the use of grabbing action and the use of positive and negative foot movements 4) although compare to second place and third place players the referee has emotional considers on Shaun White because of his popularity, it does not affect the score on fairness.
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Ritchie, Leanne. "Social media enter the stadium : a case study on the political economy of media at the 2010 Winter Olympics." 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10170/442.
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Just prior to the opening of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, a 21-year-old Georgian luger died after his sled left the Whistler Sliding Centre track travelling at 140 kilometres an hour. The following paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis and the Bahktinian notion of intertextuality to examine how Canadian media discursively constructed social media users and their sharing of the images, video, and opinions following the tragedy. The results show traditional media discursively constructed social media as outsiders, separate from the audience, and further argued they need to follow traditional media norms in order to be responsible citizens. In considering this discursive construction within the political economy of traditional media, it is suggested that one tactic employed is the creation of flak, which attempts to discredit what it opposes. Traditional media discourse, sometimes itself the target of flak, here uses flak against social media which are impinging on the political economy of the traditional media.
Keywords: audience, critical discourse, flak, intertextuality, Olympics, political economy, social media, traditional media
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Moravcová, Gabriela. "Digitální komunikace Českého olympijského týmu na Zimních olympijských hrách 2018." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-448055.
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This diploma thesis named Digital Communication of the Czech Olympic Team at the 2018 Winter Olympics deals with the communication of the Czech Olympic Committee, focusing on social media profiles - the Czech Olympic Team, which the Czech Olympic Committee manages and communicates through them to the target audience. The diploma thesis analyzes communication specifically during the XXIII. Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea and focuses on communication on Instagram and YouTube. The theoretical part outlines the history of the Olympic Games, explains the basic concepts of marketing and PR and the connection of these disciplines to sports and social networks. The analytical part explains the functioning of the Czech Olympic Committee and analyzes the communication on Instagram and YouTube during the Olympics. The analysis was partly based on data from the Czech Olympic production and partly my own research and analysis of posts from the period under review. To the analysis are added findings from a structured interview with the head of digital communication and is followed up with recommendations for future communication of this association.
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YEH, HUNG-LING, and 葉虹伶. "The Effects of Special Olympics Winter Floor Hockey Training on Motor Skills and Adaptive Behaviors in Senior Vocational Schools Students with Mild Intellectual Disabilities." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/q6z5g5.
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碩士國立高雄師範大學
體育學系
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Purpose: This study aimed to examine the effect of a floor hockey training on motor skills and adaptive behaviors in senior vocational male students with mild intellectual disabilities. Methods: Participants were matched based on age, gender as well as severity of disability, and split into two groups and randomly assigned to the experimental group (n = 25) and the control group (n = 25). Experimental group received the intervention, whereas the control group did not. The intervention was lasted for 12 weeks (thrice a week; 100 minutes each time). All participants’ motor skills and adaptive activities were measured by using the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-2 and the Adaptive Behavior Assessment System-2. The quasi-experimental design was conducted. Data were analyzed by using the two-way mixed design ANOVAs. Results: The significant interaction effects were observed for the manual coordination (F = 5.62, p < .05,Partial eta2 =.11), body coordination (F = 7.66, p <.01,Partial eta2 = .14) , concept competence composite score (F = 5.26, p < .05,Partial eta2 = .11) , social competence composite scores (F = 4.42, p < .05,Partial eta2 = .09). The simple main effects indicated that (1) the manual coordination as well as body coordination were significantly better for the experimental group than their baseline performance (p < .01); (2) the concept competence and social competence were significantly better for the experimental group after the intervention (p < .01); (3) the control group performed significantly better as compared to their baseline after intervention (p < .01). Conclusion: A 12 -week floor hockey training has the capacity to effectively improve motor skills and adaptive behaviors in the vocational students with mild intellectual disabilities.
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Devitt, Mark. "The Myth of Olympic Unity: The Dilemma of Diversity, Olympic Oppression, and the Politics of Difference." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25643.
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The dilemma of diversity is the tension that exists when prescriptive claims are required across reasonable pluralism. Scholar and philosopher Dwight Boyd believes that the dilemma of diversity must be addressed for the continued health of multicultural societies, and suggests that the solution can be found through democratic reciprocity. Though the International Olympic Committee (IOC) markets unity and peace through its Olympic Games, does the Olympics relieve the dilemma of diversity? By critically examining the IOC’s historic and recent treatment of Aboriginals, its encouragement of divisive nationalism, and its educational programs, it is clear that the IOC does not embrace reasonable pluralism. The IOC’s public pedagogy is one that conceals its dominance through diversity. In exposing this dominance, I will argue that the IOC must embrace democratic reciprocity that allows for conversation across difference. Adopting an authentic acceptance of difference will alleviate the IOC’s propagation of Western ideology through neo-imperialism.
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Růžičková, Anna. "Srovnání olympijského vysílání České televize ze zimních olympijských her 2010 a 2014." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-339906.
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This thesis principally compares the Olympic broadcasting on the Czech Television covering Winter Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver and 2014 in Sochi. The first part of the text defines the concept of Olympism, the history of the Olympic Games and the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee, and the current form of the Games and their future. The further analysed Winter Olympics 2010 and 2014 are being briefly described in this section as well. Moreover, the relationship between sport and media, and the media event of the Olympic Games are being defined. Considerable attention is being given to the Olympic Television Broadcasting. Consequently, the history of broadcasting, broadcasting rights, commercialization of the Olympics, their funding, and the function of Olympic Broadcasting Services is being discussed too. The latter part is devoted to the Czech Television, its history and current form as a public service broadcaster. The chapters that deal with an analysis of Olympic broadcasting covering Vancouver and Sochi describe the Olympic teams of the Czech Television in Prague and in the Olympic venue, program schedules, and web specials. The number of broadcasted hours from the Olympics, the costs of broadcasting production, and the viewership are being compared. The Olympic broadcasting from Vancouver was...
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Tan, Wie-Seng, and 陳偉生. "Technical Analysis of 2012 Olympic Games Gold Medal Winner in Female49kg Taekwondo Competition." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/02905868920926631340.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
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The purpose of this study was to examine the technical analysis of 2012 Olympic Games gold medal winner in the female 49 kg Taekwondo competition. The study by observation during her four matches, event recording method was to record the number of attack pattern, attack skill and score, the data were analyzed with descriptive analysis and percentage. The results were : (1)Attack pattern performance; An active attack player, used right foot and forefoot respectively for main attack pattern.The prefer standing position was mainly right leg in front and left foot at back.The right forefoot was mainly attack trunk and head areas.Forefoot axe kick performance advantage and very fast. (2)Attack skill performance;roundhouse kick was performed attack style, axe kick secondly.The active attack skill used roundhouse kick, axe kick, front kick and side kick. Roundhouse kick prefer leg there were no differences significant, but axe kick, front kick, side kick, back kick and back spinning kick attack style prefer used right foot. Roundhouse kick and axe kick used forefoot higher than rearfoot.The mainly attack head used axe kick and skill performance very advantage. (3)Score skill performance;in term valid scoring by active attack, the best scoring usual attack head used right forefoot, axe kick and roundhouse kick skill is major scoring performance. The best score prefer legs standing position was mainly right leg at front and left leg at back. The successful score by attack head and is excellent ability to attack.Back spinning kick was successful performed, back kick secondly, followed axe kick, and last roundhouse kick. The finding of this study provided information for Taekwondo skill has a positive impact, suggestions for continue to gather about taekwondo information study, the establishment of taekwondo athelete archives, and strehgthen information and analysistaekwondo tournament. It could be used us a reference for future training of coaches and atheletes to strengthen attak pattern, attack skill and score skill, and promote enhance the development of Taekwondo. Key words: Taekwondo, Attack pattern, Attack skill, Score, Success rate
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Yen, Hsiang-Ping, and 顏祥玶. "Technical Analysis of the gold medal winner in women\'s Taekwondo 67KG at RIO Olympics 2016." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gut39k.
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碩士國立東華大學
體育與運動科學系
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This study aims to analysis the performance related to skill, strategy and tactic application of OH, Hye-ri who is a female taekwondo gold medalist in 2016 Rio Olympics Games (67kg). Methods: video observation system was required for observation, and Microsoft Excel was applied to analysis data. The parameters of attack pattern (analyzed by Pearson correlation) include active, passive, left foot kick, right foot kick, front foot kick, rear foot; technical turning kick, side kick, downward kick, back kick, roundhouse kick, hook kick, and strait box. The analysis result are listed as follow: 1. The top 3 main attack types (with percentage) are active 194 times (74.62%), left foot 205 times (78.85%), front foot 171 times (65.77%). 2. Her main scoring techniques include active 13 times (68.42%), left foot 15 times (78.95%), front foot 11 times (57.89%), and rear foot 8 times (42.11%). 3. The scoring rate of techniques from high to low is passive (9.09%), rear foot (8.99%), left foot (7.32%), and right foot (7.27%). 4. The main attack skills are turning kick 121 times (46.54%), side kick 71 times (47.37%), downward kick 52 times (20.00%). 5. Main scoring techniques are contributed by downward kick 9 times (47.37%), turning kick 7 times (36.84%), side kick 1 time (5.26%), back kick 1 time (5.26%), and hook kick 1 time (5.26%). 6. The highest scoring rate among all skills is downward kick (17.31%). 7. The third round is highly related to following figures: her main offensive round (occupied 39.62% of all attack attempts), the main scoring round (52.36% of all scores) and highest scoring rate is occurred this round (9.71%). In conclusion, the main attack style is active left front foot kick. The priority scoring skill is active left kick, and secondary is back kick. The attack technique with the highest scoring rate is passive left and right back kick. The major offensive style is turning kick, side kick and downward kick are next. Scoring techniques are contributed by downward kick, turning kick as priority, and secondary are side kick, back kick, and hook kick. The style with the highest scoring attack rate is downward kick. The third round is her main attack initiated round, main scoring round, and the round that the highest scoring rate occurred.
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Majid, Kashef. "Exploring the growth of the television audience for the Olympic Winter Games in "non-traditional" markets." Thesis, 2005. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/8221/1/MR04479.pdf.
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The spectator audience for the Olympic Winter Games has been increasing in countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, New Zealand, and South Africa. This phenomenon is noteworthy because, although these countries (termed 'non-traditional' markets) rarely participate in the Winter Games, they choose to watch them. A preliminary analysis of the phenomenon revealed two frequently recurring themes: the Olympic Brand and the Experiential Aspect of viewing the spectacle. In-depth interviews with key producers of the Olympic Spectacle revealed two additional themes: Heroes and Myths and Identification. A hermeneutic analysis of the data identified the relationships between these four key themes. The Olympic Brand and the Experiential Aspect were the two primary themes but they were strengthened by the secondary themes of Heroes and Myths and Identification. When all of the relationships between the themes had been identified, a model was created to find a single abstract theme that captured the entire model. This abstract theme was Hope (a function of yearning and probability)
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Huang, Pei-Yun, and 黃珮昀. "The Technique Analysis of OH, Hyeri, the golden winner from Korea in women's Taekwondo 67KG Final, RIO Olympics 2016." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/8cmu8z.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
運動競技學系
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Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the Rio 2016 Olympic women's Taekwondo group -67 kg OH, Hyeri Korean players, Analysis the use of Taekwondo palyer OH, Hyeri in the competitions and inertia, characteristics。The results will be reference of Taekwondo coaches, and the Taekwondo sports strive for further improvement, In this study usesd video observation and analysis system, and the Excel statistics according to the data, the game main attack action, active and passive, right foot, left foot, and fist of wartime posture, The technique of the attack by the action of collocation, which get the number of attacks and the score percentage of quantitative analysis, the conclusions: First, attack type: OH, Hyeri is an active attacking player. Active attack posture for the left front, active attack times and the highest scores the highest rate of passive left front foot, but a few times, both players take the initiative to attack. Attack foot partial left foot, the left front to step right after the battle position, but change into the right front left rear to war posture, active right front foot attack can also play the Raiders score, but in passive scoring, standing before the left, front and rear can use passive, various different Taekwondo technical movements, following pressure, hook kick, kick, kick after all can score, the statistical data analysis that South Korea's, no matter in active attack and passive attack, with diversified operation mode in the aspect of Taekwondo movement. Second, attack technology: game attacks of OH, Hyeri have been dominated by spin, lower pressure and inner suspension for auxiliary attack action, then kicked in four games, scoring only once. The display of the technique was mainly based on the high scoring rate of the spin kick, with the high scoring rate of the upper end of the action, to play an overwhelming attack effect, but the technology was limited to three kinds of technical movements, namely, spin kick, down pressure and internal suspension.
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Luttrell, William Lynn. "The self-concept and perceived importance of athletic competition of winners and losers in special olympics." Thesis, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/37989.
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Special Olympics International, an organization
committed to providing sport opportunities for children
and adults with mental retardation, has been a major
advocate in promoting competitive experiences for the
mentally retarded. Few studies have focused on the
effects of participation in competitive athletics on
individuals who are mentally retarded. The purpose of
this study was to investigate the self-concept of
winners, non-winners, and losers after participation in
a Special Olympics competitive meet. The study also
examined the attitude of mentally retarded participants
toward competition and the perceived importance of
competing in the event.
The subjects for this investigation were
participants from the Texas Special Olympics State
Swimming Meet. The study included 95 males and 56
females. Comparisons were made among athletes placing
first, second, and last in races at the swim meet.
Following competition, subjects were administered a
sub-scale of the Piers Harris Self Concept Scale (PHSCS)
and asked questions relative to attitudes toward
competition. A followup interview was conducted eight
to twelve weeks following the swimming meet to
determine the importance of having competed in the
Special Olympics State Swimming Meet.
No significant differences in self-concept levels
existed among winners, non-winners, and losers
immediately following competition. While all three
groups expressed positive feelings toward participation
in Special Olympics, the last place finishers were
slightly more negative about swimming in the race when
interviewed immediately following their participation.
Also, immediately following the race, more second place
finishers preferred to swim when racing other people
than did winners and last place finishers.
In a followup interview eight to twelve weeks
after participation, no significant differences were
found among groups regarding their attitude toward
competing in the Special Olympics Swim Meet. Also, the
perceived importance of the Texas Special Olympics
State Swim Meet was not significantly different for
winners, non-winners, and losers, as measured by
responses to the followup interview.Graduation date: 1991
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Kubátová, Monika. "Úspěchy našeho běžeckého lyžování na zimních olympijských hrách." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-324208.
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Title: Accomplishments of our cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Abstract: This thesis is focus on history of Czech and Czechoslovak cross-counrty skiing at the Winter Olympic Games from the first competition at WOG Chamonix 1924 to Vancouver 2010. Using the direct method and the method of content analysis it documents and summarizes the accomplishments of our cross-country representatives. It finds out that representatives of such a small country reached splendid results. But the available literature doesn't mention them as far as they didn't win a medal. Very interesting is the comparison between two skiing generations using the interview with their representatives Kveta Jeriova and Katerina Neumannova. The resulting comparison between their answers reaches a conclusion: the first of them had much harder conditions and worse facilities. In spite of this fact, she proved to be successful but her career was shorter and the number of medals smaller. Keywords: Winter olympic games, history, cross-country skiing, accomplishment
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Zbořilová, Veronika. "Výzkum veřejného mínění návštěvníků Olympijského parku Soči - Letná 2014." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-337582.
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6 Abstract Title: Public opinion research of visitors of the Olympic Park Sochi - Letna 2014 Goal: To evaluate the importance of the Olympic Park Sochi - Letna 2014 based on public opinion of visitors. To propose conceptual improvements for the following Olympic parks during the Summer and the Winter Olympic Games. Methods: Quantitative questionnaire was used as the main method to determine public opinion. Qualitative in-depth interview with representatives of sports institutions and analysis of documents from internal resources served as a secondary analysis. Results: The Olympic Park Sochi - Letna 2014 was visited mainly by sport active people from Prague and Central Bohemia. Most of them were satisfied with the concept of the park and they would visit this kind of park in the next years, for which they would recommend bigger capacity and fitting refreshments. People came to the park to play sports and to try lesser known sports. They think that the concept of Olympic park would help to motivate public to practise sports. Key words: Public opinion, sport and population, Olympic Park Sochi - Letna 2014, Winter Olympic Games
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JONÁKOVÁ, Šárka. "Analýza věku běžců na lyžích na MS a OH v klasickém lyžování v letech 1970 - 2007\\." Master's thesis, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-51462.
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This thesis is focused on evaluating age structure of cross-country skiing racers who participate in World Championship and Olympic Games. The work shall show if the age of sportsmen can be determined as one of the factors of success, what is the optimal age limit and how is this age limit changed in the course of time or if it stays the same. After studying available literature and after looking up certain data on the internet, the results were evaluated in Excel, the graphs were created and the final report was written. The results showed: the average age often oscillates among 24 and 36 years in the majority of disciplines, it has been rather decreasing mostly in the discipline od women - cross-countra skiing for 5 km both at the World Championship and at the Olympic Games. The age decreases at shorter distance and a little higher age increases or predominates at disciplines for longer distance. The total arithmetic mean of the age of the maximum performance is 27.99 years in cross-country skiing at World Championship and at winter Olympic Games from 1970 to 2007. The arithmetic mean of the age of winners in World Championship is 27.75 years. The arithmetic mean of the age of racers participated in winter Olympic Games is 28.33 years in that time. Average age of women is 27.78 years, average age of men is 28.19 years.
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Tauchmanová, Věra. "Medializace krasobruslení v období zimních olympijských her od 90. let 20. století." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-398312.
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The submitted diploma thesis deals with presentations of figure skating at Winter Olympic Games from the 1990s to the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in two selected daily newspapers, and with ways in which the presentation of figure skating has changed within the analysed period. The first chapter presents sports journalism, its history and famous personalities, its text types and typical language, and characteristic features of a sport journalist. The second chapter presents the connection of sports and media, the concepts of agenda-setting, agenda-building and intermedia agenda, tabloidization and commercialization and ways in which news services work. The third chapter presents figure skating and figure skating events at the analysed Winter Olympic Games. The analysed media and changing paradigms of the media landscape are presented in the fourth chapter. The methodological basis used for the analyses is described in the fifth chapter. The sixth chapter presents the results of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the newspaper articles. Furthermore, the interviews with two personalities of the Czech figure skating are analysed qualitatively. The results of the quantitative analysis of the articles and the qualitative analysis of the interviews are compared. Keywords figure skating,...