scholarly journals Volunteerism in the Olympic sport

2018 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Iryna Boiko ◽  
Lidiia Radchenko
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Media Centers ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Technological Support ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Olympic Sport ◽  
The Olympic Games

Objective: to examine the trends in establishment and development of the volunteer movement in the system of Olympic sport and to justify the ways to involve various segments of the Ukrainian population in volunteering. Methods. Analysis of specialized literature, documentary materials, and Internet resources, historical and logical analysis, structural and functional analysis, surveying, methods of mathematical statistics. Results and conclusions. The study identified the main trends that are inherent in the Olympic volunteer movement, in particular the important role of the latest computer technologies; an expanding of the range of functional responsibilities and an increase in the total number of people wishing to assist in the organization of the Olympic Games; an increase in the percentage of foreigners among volunteers of the event; a decrease in the mean age of volunteers; a strengthening of the rules for selecting and expanding the content of training programs for Olympic volunteers with each Olympic cycle. The areas of volunteers' activities at the Olympic Games were examined, in the framework of which it is appropriate to carry out their training: interaction with IOC, NOC, ISF; coordination of arrivals and departures; participation in ceremonies; assistance to the organization of doping control; provision of protocol services to officials; technological support; assistance to the work of media-centers; coordination of transportation services; assistance to the accreditation service; volunteering at the Olympic events; linguistic services; catering services. The promising ways for the development of volunteer activity in Ukraine as a component of the development of the Olympic movement were justified and their effectiveness was determined: creation of the sections on volunteer activities on sports organizations' websites; development and implementation of special educational programs; development of measures aimed at attracting people to volunteering; creation of volunteer training centers; inclusion of the topic “Sports and Olympic volunteering" into educational programs of educational institutions; coverage of sports volunteering issues in textbooks on physical education for educational institutions; carrying out the studies on the issues of sports volunteering in educational institutions; promotion of the volunteer movement in the media; establishing links between sports and volunteer organizations; introduction of the practice of engaging sports volunteers to other areas of voluntary assistance. Keywords: volunteer, volunteer at the Olympic games, the Olympic sport.

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.

Rituals and Records: the Films of the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke McKernan
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Slow Motion ◽  
Sports History ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Olympic Sport ◽  
Film Record ◽  
Landmark Study ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Olympic Games

The title of Allen Guttmann's landmark study of sports history,From Ritual to Record, captures the way cinematic treatments of the Olympic Games, Europe's most resonant sporting invention, developed in the early twentieth century. Projected film and the modern Olympic Games began in the same year, 1896, and the way the two phenomena have grown together demonstrates a progression from formality and ritual to an ever-increasing emphasis on individual, nation and achievement. This transition from ritual to record is demonstrated by two Olympic films from the European Games of Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928,Les Jeux Olympiques Paris 1924andDe Olympische Spelen. These cinematic records are not only documentary records of the events they portray, but are an important reminder that modern sports are witnessed by most not as stadium spectators but as viewers – in the case of the 1924 and 1928 films, as members of a cinema audience. The film record is essential to our understanding of the popularisation of modern sports, while through their contrary impulses to document and to idealise (particularly through the use of slow-motion photography), the two films demonstrate what is meaningful about Olympic sport.

Sport Psychology Consultants’ Perceptions of Their Challenges at the London 2012 Olympic Games

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Elsborg ◽  
Gregory M. Diment ◽  
Anne-Marie Elbe
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contextual Differences ◽  
The Olympic Games

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.

scholarly journals Sport – In Praise of Doping on its Usefulness and Necessity

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Author(s):  
Jerzy Kosiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Considerable Increase ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Professional Athletes ◽  
Elite Sport ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Olympic Sport ◽  
The Olympic Games

AbstractThe author points out that in contemporary competitive, record oriented, professional, spectacular, top-level sport, elite sport, marketability sport or Olympic sport – whose beginnings should be dated to the turn of the 19th and the 20th century – mistaken decisions, which inhibited development of the abovementioned forms of sport, took place.Primarily it was restricted to circle of financially well-off gentlemen, women’s participation was forbidden, participation of professional athletes was also forbidden to a considerable degree (and during the Olympic games – totally). The need of commercialization of sport was negated and definite forms of doping were banned.When talented persons from the lower social strata – workingmen (as well as women) and athletes earning money by practicing sport – were permitted to participate in sports competition and commercialization of sport was accepted, sport started to develop more rapidly and it became more attractive and spectacular. It contributed to intensification of investment in sport, to enrichment and modernization of its infrastructure, to optimization of research, technologization, production of better equipment and a considerable increase in athletes’ and coaches’ remuneration.Another radical qualitative leap in sport can be contributed to by abolition of a ban on doping. It is going to implicate necessary and competent medical and pharmacological care, to facilitate maximization of results, to increase interest in sports spectacles. Skillful application of doping is going to release athletes’ considerable capacity, endurance and proficiency potentials which have not been used yet.

scholarly journals Dansk national identitet afspejledet i medierne ved OL-fodboldturneringerne 1908-1960

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Jørgensen
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
International Comparisons ◽  
National Consciousness ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Minor ◽  
The Olympic Games

Per Jørgensen: Danish national identity and the media at the Olympic Games 1908-1960It has often been said that sport, and not least soccer, plays an important role in the construction of national identity. This is also the case in Denmark. This paper examines how the subject of Danish national consciousness, national feelings and nationalism, in the article collectively called »Danishness«, was culturally expressed through sport journalism in the period 1908-1960. The subject matter is the soccer- tournaments in those specific Olympic Games where Denmark took part. The discourse of the sport journalism in the paper »Politiken« has been hermeneutically analyzed. Research on how nationalism is expressed in one country requires international comparisons to allow theoretical generalizations. Therefore a minor study of the sport journalism of the Swedish newspaper »Dagens Nyheter« has been carried out regarding selected soccer-matches with Swedish participation in the Olympic Games in 1912, 1948 and 1952. Many of the characteristics of present day society referred to as »Danishness« are also explicit in the period 1908-1960 in the newspaper »Politiken«. A comparison between »Politiken« and »Dagens Nyheter« seems to show that the Danish discourse has distinctively Danish characteristics.

The Role of Media in Enhancing People’s Perception of Hosting a Mega Sport Event: The Case of Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics Bids

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Kim ◽  
Moonhoon Choi ◽  
Kyriaki Kaplanidou
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
The Media ◽  
Newspaper Articles ◽  
The Olympic Games

Residents’ support for hosting the Olympic Games is crucial for a bid to succeed in the Olympic host-city selection process. Because of the vital role of the media in framing public perceptions of Olympic bids, the purpose of this study was to examine media coverage of hosting the Olympic Games during the Olympic host-city bid process. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on newspaper articles about Pyeongchang, Korea. Pyeongchang was a candidate city for 3 consecutive bids for the Winter Olympic Games, and it finally won its latest bid to host the 2018 Games. Six hundred Korean newspaper articles were collected for analysis. The results indicated that positive, nationwide discussions of hosting the Olympic Games were presented during the successful bid. Infrastructure legacy was mentioned frequently and dominantly for both successful and unsuccessful bid periods, whereas the presence of sport-development and sociocultural-legacy themes increased in the latest, successful, bid. In addition, extensive coverage related to celebrity endorsement was found during the successful bid.

A Case for the Integration of the Disabled into the Olympic Games

1988 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stan Labanowich
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Confounding Factor ◽  
International Olympic Committee ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Olympic Movement ◽  
Sports Programs ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Single Voice ◽  
The Olympic Games

By referring to criteria established by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for including sports in the Olympic Games and considering the maturation of the sports movement for the disabled, it is reasonable to conclude that certain sports reserved exclusively for the disabled can be made eligible for inclusion in the Olympic Games as medal events. A confounding factor in pursuit of inclusion in the Olympic Games is the uncritical willingness of the established international sports organizations for the disabled to amalgamate in order to communicate as a single voice with the IOC. Created in the process is a formal institutionalization of sports programs for the disabled. Despite invitations to stage demonstration events in recent Olympic Games, sports organizations have failed to take measures necessary to qualify for full integration into the Olympic movement. Reorganization is called for on the basis of versions of sports that would lend themselves to integration.

scholarly journals Folkelig idræt kan ikke sådan måles eller vejes' - Om festjournalistik eller: Hvordan rapporterer man ikke-olympisk mangfoldighed?

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Eichberg
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Modern Problem ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Olympic Games

Med DGI's landsstævne 2002 som eksempel beskriver og diskuterer artiklen de journalistiske udfordringer og problemer ved at rapportere fra en festivalpræget idrætsbegivenhed.“Popular sport cannot be weighed and measured”. On festival journalism, or How to report non-Olympic variety Sport journalism has a “post-modern” problem. Since the end of the twentieth century, an event culture has developed where media strategies and interests of sale, technologies of visualisation, political interests and popular fascination join in the great show of entertainment. The latemodern festival culture does not only embrace the Olympic Games but it also influences festivals which have grown out of quite different traditions such as the German Turnfest and the Danish landsstævne of popular gymnastics and sports. The ways in which the media react to sport as festivity is here analysed for the case of Landsstævne 2002 on Bornholm. Besides the dominant journalism of records, we find a journalism of ersatz records and of the spectacular, problem journalism side by side with a journalism of joyful faces, human interest journalism and show journalism as well as attempts at political and cultural journalism. The different ways of reporting the festival of popular culture confront some fundamental questions about the relation

scholarly journals HISTORICAL PRECONDITIONS FOR THE FORMATION AND PLACE OF FEMALE BOXING IN THE MODERN SYSTEM OF THE INTERNATIONAL SPORTS MOVEMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Molochko Anastasiia ◽  
Vysochina Nadiia
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Modern System ◽  
Female Sports ◽  
Scientific Substantiation ◽  
The Olympic Games

Introduction. The article examines the historical preconditions for the formation of female sports in the modern system of the international sports movement. Important historical events are analyzed and the key factors that have determined the development of female sports in the world and in Ukraine are identified. Aim is to determine the historical preconditions of formation and the place of female boxing in the modern conditions of the international sports movement. Material and methods: analysis of literature sources and Internet sites, expert surveys, pedagogical observation, content analysis, methods of mathematical statistics. The study is based on the analysis of literature sources, archival materials and opinions of experts on the problems of formation and development of female boxing in the world and in Ukraine. Results. It points to the long-term negative attitude of leading international sports organizations and the public to the idea of ​​developing and popularizing female boxing, including these competitions in the program of the Olympic Games of our time. The dynamics of an increase in the number of athletes and participating countries in international competitions in female boxing, a tendency to an increase in the number of weight categories in female boxing competitions at the Olympic Games are presented. The important problems that arise today in the process of female boxers’ training are analyzed and the key differences in the structure of their competitive activity in comparison with men are characterized. It is indicated that there is no need for scientific substantiation and development of a conceptual model for the development of female sports in the modern conditions of the international sports movement.

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

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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