Sport Legacy of the Olympic Games London– 2012

The objective of this study was to explore how sport psychology consultants perceive the challenges they face at the Olympic Games. Post-Olympics semistructured interviews with 11 experienced sport psychology consultants who worked at the London Games were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and inductively content analyzed. Trustworthiness was reached through credibility activities (i.e., member checking and peer debriefing). The participants perceived a number of challenges important to being successful at the Olympic Games. These challenges were divided into two general themes: Challenges Before the Olympics (e.g., negotiating one’s role) and Challenges During the Olympics (e.g., dealing with the media). The challenges the sport psychology consultants perceived as important validate and cohere with the challenge descriptions that exist in the literature. The findings extend the knowledge on sport psychology consultancy at the Olympic Games by showing individual contextual differences between the consultants’ perceptions and by identifying four SPC roles at the Olympic Games.

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The Sources and Interpretation of Olympic Law

Legal Information Management ◽

10.1017/s1472669612000278 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 80-86 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mark James ◽

Guy Osborn

Keyword(s):

Legal Status ◽

Olympic Games ◽

Legal Framework ◽

London 2012 ◽

Olympic Movement ◽

The Uk ◽

The Olympic Games

AbstractIn this article, Mark James and Guy Osborn discuss how the relationships between the various members of the Olympic Movement are governed by the Olympic Charter and the legal framework within which an edition of the Olympic Games is organised. The legal status of the Charter and its interpretation by the Court of Arbitration for Sport are examined to identify who is subject to its terms and how challenges to its requirements can be made. Finally, by using the UK legislation that has been enacted to regulate advertising and trading at London 2012, the far-reaching and sometimes unexpected reach of Olympic Law is explored.

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Economic cooperation between public and private sectors – a comparative analysis of the Olympic Games in Athens 2004 and London 2012

Studies in Sport Humanities ◽

10.5604/01.3001.0012.6523 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 22 ◽

pp. 49-58

Author(s):

Julia Jastrząbek

Keyword(s):

Olympic Games ◽

Organisational Structure ◽

Public And Private ◽

The Public ◽

London 2012 ◽

Social Fields ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Economic Reality ◽

Public And Private Sector ◽

The Olympic Games

The Olympic Games are considered to be the most important sports event in the world. In spite of the sports’ dimension of the Olympics, there are many other aspects which should be taken into consideration when thinking about the Olympics. These refer to economic, political, organisational and social fields. An appropriate budget, organisational structure, sports and non-sports infrastructure are just a few of the necessary issues. The major aim of this article is to present the spectrum of cooperation between the public and private sector during the Athens 2004 and London 2012 Olympic Games, the economic effectiveness of the Olympics in both cities and the realisation of the Olympic Legacy focused on post-game infrastructure and other facilities and areas of a socio-economic reality. The results of this study reveal that only a host city where an appropriate organisational structure, net of stakeholders, budget and strategy for Olympic infrastructure are established, is capable of drawing potential benefits from The Olympic Legacy.

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Sport Promotion through Sport Mega-Events. An Analysis for Types of Olympic Sports in London 2012

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17176193 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (17) ◽

pp. 6193

Author(s):

Themistocles Kokolakakis ◽

Fernando Lera-Lopez

Keyword(s):

Olympic Games ◽

Demographic Variables ◽

Seasonal Adjustment ◽

Policy Tool ◽

London 2012 ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Paralympic Sport ◽

Gender And Age Differences ◽

Using Data ◽

The Olympic Games

A substantial amount of attention has been devoted towards the potential sport legacy of the Olympic Games. In spite of the increasing academic interest in this topic, there is a knowledge gap as far as sport legacy is concerned by types of different sports. The authors bridge this gap by analysing the evolution of 43 different Olympic/Paralympic sport modalities in the two-year period after the London 2012 Olympics. By using data from the Active People Survey with a sample of 165,000 people annually, and considering some demographic variables and the effect of the economic environment, the paper aims to test the existence of a sport legacy. We have applied time series analysis and ARIMA models for controlling for economic influence and seasonal adjustment and for making comparisons among participation rates. The results show, for the total of the sports analysed, that there were 336,000 individuals who increased their frequency of participation, while there was no significant increase in the number of new participants in these sports. When we develop the analysis for types of sports, London 2012 is positively associated not only with the frequency of participation in some types of sport but also with an increase in the number of new sport participants. Gender and age differences are also detected. The results show the differences of sport legacy by type of sports. Moreover, this research has elucidated an important unrecognised aspect of the effect of the Olympic Games and perhaps major events: that they can become a major policy tool for reversing sporting inequalities.

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Watched by the Games: Surveillance and security at the Olympics

International Review for the Sociology of Sport ◽

10.1177/1012690211433482 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 47 (3) ◽

pp. 414-429 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

John Sugden

Keyword(s):

Olympic Games ◽

Civil Liberties ◽

Democratic Values ◽

Terrorist Threat ◽

Liberal Democratic ◽

London 2012 ◽

City Of London ◽

The City ◽

The Olympic Games

Every four years the Summer Olympic Games fires the imagination of the largest and most diverse sport spectatorship and entices them in their hundreds of thousands to some of the First World’s most iconic and crowded cities. In addition, the ideological symbolism associated with the Olympic Games is rooted in Western, liberal democratic values and traditions. For those who do not share these ideals the Olympics represent something to stand against and, in extremity, disrupt and violate. In short, in a post-9/11 world, the Olympics provide a mouth-watering target for terrorists. Using themes of surveillance drawn form from Bentham and Foucault, this article analyses the nature of the terrorist threat and scale of the security operation designed to ensure the safety of the London 2012 Olympic Games. It concludes by considering the consequences of these measures on the city of London, particularly in terms of the civil liberties of its citizenry.

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ANALYSIS OF REPORTING ON MALE AND FEMALE ATHLETES IN SERBIAN MEDIA DURING THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON 2012

Facta Universitatis Series Physical Education and Sport ◽

10.22190/fupes190908043s ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 491

Author(s):

Nenad Stojiljković ◽

Nebojša Randjelović ◽

Danijela Živković ◽

Danica Piršl ◽

Irena Stanišić

Keyword(s):

Female Athletes ◽

Olympic Games ◽

Sporting Events ◽

Male And Female ◽

London 2012 ◽

Local Media ◽

The Media ◽

The Difference ◽

Women In Sports ◽

The Olympic Games

The main goal of this paper was to find out more about how and to what extent the local media reported on sporting events at the 2012 London Olympics and to determine the difference in reporting on male and female athletes in the local media. The subject of the research are newspaper articles about sports in electronic news editions, which influence the formation of the media image about athletes, and which can contribute to the affirmation or marginalization of women in sports. In this research for collecting data and information about athletes at the Olympic Games, three media sources were used: RTS, KURIR and POLITIKA. The data have been collected since the opening of the Olympic Games until their official closing ceremony and every day was thoroughly processed in all three media sources. The information included information on the gender of the author of the text, the number of photos in the text, the number of words in the text, the gender of the actors who are on the photos, the level of exposure of the actor's bodies in the photos, the emotions in the photos, the angle of the camera, individual and group display of athletes, active or passive on-site and out-of-court conditions. Generally speaking, the findings of this research in the media space of Serbia show that there is still an imbalance in the way men and women athletes are represented, and that in this respect, there is a need for certain changes in this issue.

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