scholarly journals Should Oscar Pistorius be Allowed to Compete at the Olympic Games?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Terence Davidson
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Below The Knee ◽  
Prosthetic Limbs ◽  
Technical Aids ◽  
Enhancement Technologies ◽  
The Olympic Games

<p>On the 4th of August 2012 South African runner Oscar Pistorius became the first athlete to compete at the Olympic Games while running on prosthetic limbs. Pistorius is a double below the knee amputee who runs on carbon J-shaped fibre blades. He represents a fusion of humanity and technology that will become an increasingly pressing issue for the sporting arena in the coming years. In this essay I use Pistorius as a case study to investigate how decisions regarding the use of enhancement technologies in sport should be made. I argue that the key characteristic that should be assessed is whether Pistorius' prosthetic legs mean that he is competing in a different sport to able-bodied athletes when he runs. I contend that the best method for deciding whether or not Pistorius is competing in the same sport as able-bodied athletes is to adopt a balance of excellences view of sport (Devine, 2010). I use this model to show that the excellence of exploiting technical aids is far more important for Pistorius than it is for his able-bodied counterparts. From this I conclude that what Pistorius does when he runs is not comparable to able-bodied runners. Thus he should not be allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes at the Olympic Games.</p>

scholarly journals Should Oscar Pistorius be Allowed to Compete at the Olympic Games?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Terence Davidson
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Below The Knee ◽  
Prosthetic Limbs ◽  
Technical Aids ◽  
Enhancement Technologies ◽  
The Olympic Games

<p>On the 4th of August 2012 South African runner Oscar Pistorius became the first athlete to compete at the Olympic Games while running on prosthetic limbs. Pistorius is a double below the knee amputee who runs on carbon J-shaped fibre blades. He represents a fusion of humanity and technology that will become an increasingly pressing issue for the sporting arena in the coming years. In this essay I use Pistorius as a case study to investigate how decisions regarding the use of enhancement technologies in sport should be made. I argue that the key characteristic that should be assessed is whether Pistorius' prosthetic legs mean that he is competing in a different sport to able-bodied athletes when he runs. I contend that the best method for deciding whether or not Pistorius is competing in the same sport as able-bodied athletes is to adopt a balance of excellences view of sport (Devine, 2010). I use this model to show that the excellence of exploiting technical aids is far more important for Pistorius than it is for his able-bodied counterparts. From this I conclude that what Pistorius does when he runs is not comparable to able-bodied runners. Thus he should not be allowed to compete against able-bodied athletes at the Olympic Games.</p>

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 Territorial Marketing Applied of Great Events: The Case Study of Cortina d’Ampezzo

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Fedrici ◽  
Elisa Rancati
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Event Data ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
The Olympic Games

Territorial marketing and great events marketing is generally considered by academics and professionals as a discipline with dynamic and not fully distinct fields. This study aims to develop research in these fields, examining the impacts of territorial marketing on a tourism destination during a great event. Data collected from tourists in Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy) demonstrates that this destination became famous following territorial marketing used for the Olympic Games in 1956 and its attractiveness is still alive, so much so that it has been chosen once again to host the 2026 Winter Olympic Games. This study underlines how territorial marketing has created a tourism destination that can attract tourists regardless of the great event.

Apartheid and Sport: South Africa Revisited

1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
March L. Krotee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
United Nations ◽  
South African ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
South African Government ◽  
The South ◽  
African Government ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Internal Pressures ◽  
The Olympic Games

The South African government’s socially based policy of segregation and discrimination, or “apartheid,” has caused tremendous external, as well as internal, pressures to reverse the government’s inhumane treatment of its repressed populace. Until recently none of the pressures have been more forceful than those evoked by the sporting world and the United Nations. Since 1960, these forces have served to isolate South Africa from most international sports competitions, including the Olympic Games. At one juncture, various leanings in apartheid policy seemed to point toward a tilt in attitudinal posture not only in regard to sport but to various related apartheid conduct. Recent events, however, have elucidated a continued dominant posture concerning South Africa’s all-encompassing socially repressive apartheid practice. It appears that, unless the South African government initiates swift and salient apartheid expiration, the perilous game they are playing may get out of hand.

scholarly journals The Long-Standing Issue of Mobility at the Olympics: From Host Cities to Host Regions in the Ongoing Case Study of Milan–Cortina 2026

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 910
Author(s):  
Gustavo Lopes dos Santos ◽  
Rosário Macário ◽  
Marie Delaplace ◽  
Stefano Di Vita
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
International Olympic Committee ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Mobility Problem ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Public Opposition ◽  
The Olympic Games

Due to public opposition against the unsustainability of hosting the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee adopted Olympic Agenda 2020 to adjust the event requirements to address modern society’s sustainability concerns. Since its implementation, the Agenda has driven important changes regarding the planning and organization of the Olympics, including the possibility of regions being hosts. This allows the sprawl of Olympic venues over larger territories, theoretically facilitating the alignment of event requirements with the needs of the intensively growing contemporary urban areas. However, the larger the host territory, the more complex becomes its mobility planning, as transport requirements for participants still have to be fulfilled, and the host populations still expect to inherit benefits from any investments made. The objective of this paper is to identify and discuss new challenges that such modifications bring for mega-event mobility planning. First, based on the academic literature of case studies of previous Olympic cities, a theoretical framework to systematize the mobility problem at the Olympic Games is proposed for further validation, identifying the dimensions of the related knowledge frames. Second, the mobility planning for the case study of the first ever Olympic region—the Milan–Cortina 2026 Winter Games—is described. Using this case study, the proposed framework is then extrapolated for cases of Olympic regions in order to identify any shifts in the paradigm of mobility planning when increasing the spatial scale of Olympic hosts. Conclusions indicate that, if properly addressed, unsustainability might be mitigated in Olympic regions, but mega-event planners will have to consider new issues affecting host communities and event stakeholders.

The recurrence syndrome: A case study of the repeatability of political developments during the Olympic Games .

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
Mateusz Rozmiarek
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Olympic Movement ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
The Olympic Games

The article examines instances of the impact of international relations and politics on the Olympic movement and sport in view of the so-called Syndrome of the 25-year Recurrence. The recurrence of developments directly related to multilateral politics can be observable since the organization of the fi rst Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896. Although the degree of relations between the Olympics and international politics has varied and depended on specifi c circumstances, politics has tended to overshadow the Olympic spectacle and aspired to be the key component of the Games, roughly every twenty years. The author argues, on the basis of numerous examples, that the Olympic Games in the years 1896, 1916, 1936, 1956, 1976 and 1996 were dominated by political developments.

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