Sport Participation and Olympic Legacies

A Comparative Study
Herausgeber: Dowling, Mathew; Harris, Spencer

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sports participation. It focuses on the mass sport participation legacy of the most recent hosts of the summer Olympics, including Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781138696655
• ISBN-10: 113869665X
• Artikelnr.: 60004402

Autorenporträt

Spencer Harris is Associate Professor of Sport Management at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA. Mathew Dowling is Senior Lecturer in the Cambridge Centre for Sport & Exercise Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. Atlanta 1996: celebration of a century. 3. Sydney 2000:
the spirit of Australia. 4. Athens 2004: welcome home. 5. Beijing 2008: one
world, one dream. 6. London 2012: inspire a generation. 7. Rio 2016: a new
world. 8. Tokyo 2020(+1): united by emotion. 9. Conclusion.