scholarly journals Towards an Olympic volunteering legacy: motivating volunteers to serve and remain – a case study of London 2012 Olympic Games volunteers

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niki Koutrou ◽  
Athanasios (Sakis) Pappous
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
London 2012

scholarly journals London 2012 and Environmental Sustainability: A Study through the Lens of Environmental Sociology

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Karamichas
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Environmental Sociology ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Big Society ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Host Nation

This rapid response paper examines the claim that Olympic Games hosting can encourage and/or accentuate the adoption of environmental sustainability (ES) policies by the host nation, with London 2012 as a case study. Six indicators that can be used in this examination are identified and subsequently tested in relation to changes brought by austerity/‘Big Society’ policies. The paper closes by suggesting that although the UK, unlike other hosts, had a relatively good ES standing; however, it appears that this has been significantly downgraded in the event and immediate post-event phases of the Games.

scholarly journals Perspectives on the Volunteering Legacy of the London 2012 Olympic Games: The Development of an Event Legacy Stakeholder Engagement Matrix

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 645-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Shipway ◽  
Leonie Lockstone-Binney ◽  
Kirsten Holmes ◽  
Karen A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Community Organizations ◽  
Volunteer Management ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Community Benefits ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Volunteer Programs

Using a sustainable event legacy timeline, this article examines the extent to which the existing volunteering infrastructure supporting volunteer management in the host city were engaged before, during, and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to generate a legacy for volunteering. This infrastructure includes volunteering peak bodies, volunteer resource centers, national sport governing bodies, community organizations and local government. A case study of the London 2012 Games was employed involving extensive documentary evidence and interviews with senior level informants. The findings revealed limitations with official legacy planning and a failure to engage with the voluntary sector in the host city. The event legacy timeline is combined with four key themes to emerge from the data to conceptualize an event legacy stakeholder engagement matrix. This identifies recommendations to enable future host cities to optimize opportunities from Olympic Games volunteer programs to generate wider community benefits.

scholarly journals Having a Say? The Potential of Local Events As a Tool for Community Engagement

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Local People ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Diverse Groups

This article uses a case study to consider community event practices that include local people in discussions about the regeneration of their neighborhood and capture their responses to change. It is set in an area adjacent to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, the site of London 2012 Olympic Games, and tracks the Hackney Wick Curiosity Shop (hereafter called the Curiosity Shop), an initiative that used events to engage diverse groups and develop shared experiences. The article explores the nature of these events identifying their potential and limitations. It identifies characteristics (conviviality, playfulness, creativity, and accessibility) that appear to create a powerful tool to involve local people, helping to develop a sense of community and producing locally generated place images. In this case their potential is not fully realized because the Curiosity Shop is situated within the complex context and turbulence associated with a mega-event and a major regeneration project where the market-led processes of reimaging and regenerating the area are dominant. This frenzied regeneration context is unusual, and it is argued the conviviality, playfulness, creativity, and accessibility identified here should be investigated further in a setting that is less turbulent to evaluate their effectiveness in engaging communities in debate, discussion, and collective reimagination of their localities.

scholarly journals Leading for gold: social identity leadership processes at the London 2012 Olympic Games

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Slater ◽  
Jamie B. Barker ◽  
Pete Coffee ◽  
Marc V. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
London 2012

The prince and the pauper: Journalistic culture and Paralympic games in the Spanish print press

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1713-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Solves ◽  
Sebastián Sánchez ◽  
Inmaculada Rius
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
The Media ◽  
Spanish Press ◽  
Motor Sports ◽  
Paralympic Games ◽  
The Olympic Games

The Paralympic Games are one of the world’s most important multisport events, maybe second only to the Olympic Games. However, research conducted to date shows that the media do not devote as much space to them as would accordingly be expected. This article proposes, through a case study, a new way of approaching this hypothetical discrimination by comparing the attention that the London Paralympic Games received from the Spanish print press with the attention that other sports received (football, basketball, tennis, cycling, motor sports and other minority sports) while those Games were being held. The main finding of our study is that over the period analysed, the Spanish press devoted less space to the Paralympic Games than to any other sport.

scholarly journals Athlete–Coach Conflict and a Sport Psychologist Caught in the Middle: A Case Study of Consultancy During Athlete Preparation and Performance in Olympic Games Athletics

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42
Author(s):  
Jonathan R. Males ◽  
John H. Kerr ◽  
Joanne Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Elite Athlete ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Demand Model ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Basic Performance ◽  
Sport Psychologist ◽  
And Performance

This case study examines the personal experiences of an elite athlete, coach, and sport psychology consultant (SPC) during the athlete’s preparation and performance in a recent Olympic Games. The qualitative research details how the consultancy process was affected by the athlete’s late admission of the deteriorating relationship with his coach. The concepts of closeness, commitment, complementarity, and co-orientation provided a theoretical perspective to the SPC’s interpretation of athlete performance and the interpersonal conflict that developed between athlete and coach. The basic performance demand model provided an applied perspective. The SPC’s commentary adopts a reflexive discursive style that also focuses on the SPC’s role in the consultancy process and the effectiveness of the performance demand model materials. Five important recommendations arise from the case study, and these might inform other SPCs’ future athlete–coach consultancies and interventions.

scholarly journals London 2012 (Re)calling: Youth memories and Olympic ‘legacy’ ether in the hinterland

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffery Z Kohe
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
West Midlands ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Narrative Fragments

Engendering interest and support among young people was a key strategy for the organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Part of the approach entailed promoting the event as a context and inspirational catalyst to propel young people’s proclivities toward, and enduring participation in, sport and physical activity. Although a variety of participatory platforms were entertained, the discipline of physical education remained a favoured space in which enduring Olympic imperatives could be amalgamated with government policy objectives. In this paper data are presented taken from the initial three years of a longitudinal study on young people’s engagement with the London 2012 Olympic Games, sport, physical activity and physical education within the UK’s West Midlands region. Memory scholarship is brought together with Olympic critiques, legacy debates, youth work and discussions about physical education to conceptualise participants’ anticipations and recollections of the London 2012 Olympic Games as a triptych of narrative fragments: each provides insights regarding youth experiences and the remnants of Olympic ether in the country’s hinterland. The paper offers a means subsequently to think differently about how we might play with the qualitative sociological/historiographical moments (experiences, voices, accounts, stories, etc.) that we capture in and through our work.

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