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The legacy of an Olympic Games in a host city or country can take a variety of forms, including non-sporting benefits, such as enhanced urban infrastructure and national and international tourism profile, and sporting benefits, such as improved sporting facilities, strengthened sports...

Author(s)
Veal, A. J.; Toohey, K.; Frawley, S.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 2012, 4, 2, pp 155-184
Abstract

Sports stadiums are notable city architecture, culturally significant and potentially transformative spaces. They are also a place where sports teams remain as significant social and spatial anchors, which become particularly important for cities undergoing urban change. For this study, we seek to ...

Author(s)
Richards, J.; Spanjaard, D.; O'Shea, M.; Garlin, F.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Sport & Tourism, 2022, 26, 3, pp 269-284
Abstract

Four psychometric models were evaluated for the COPE inventory (C. S. Carver, M. F. Scheier and J. K. Weintraub, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1989, 56, pp. 267-283), and for the sport-specific modification of the COPE inventory (P. R. E. Crocker and T. R. Graham, The Sport...

Author(s)
Eklund, R. C.; Grove, J. R.; Heard, N. P.
Citation
Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 1998, 20, 2, pp 157-175
Abstract

Numerous sports stadiums in Australia have been renovated or built from scratch in the past two decades, funded in whole or part by public subsidies. This note focuses on one particular group that benefits from subsidies - those spectators who attend live sporting events. A portion of the...

Author(s)
Wilson, J. K.; Siegfried, J. J.
Publisher
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, USA
Citation
Journal of Sports Economics, 2018, 19, 3, pp 389-397
Abstract

This study investigates Melbourne's status as an Olympic city. Beginning with its successful hosting of the 1956 'Friendly Games', Melbourne has subsequently established a vibrant Olympic legacy. This has included the development of world-class sports facilities, especially in the Olympic Park...

Author(s)
Baka, R.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
International Journal of the History of Sport, 2018, 35, 9, pp 874-897
Abstract

In recent years, some health agencies offered sponsorship to sporting associations to promote healthy environments by encouraging clubs to develop health-related policies. However, the extent to which these sponsorship contracts reach their stated aims is of concern. This study aimed to quantify...

Author(s)
Dobbinson, S. J.; Hayman, J. A.; Livingston, P. M.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
Health Promotion International, 2006, 21, 2, pp 121-129
Abstract

Australia's Aborigines, once thought to be a doomed Stone Age race, today command attention for their artistic work, music and dance, their writing and above all, perhaps, their sporting achievements. While indicators like infant mortality, life expectation, poor nutrition, poverty, high...

Author(s)
Tatz, C.
Publisher
Faculdade de Educação Física (FEF) da Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
Citation
Pensar a Prática, 2012, 15, 1, pp unpaginated
Abstract

Embedded in the sport of triathlon is an uneasy relationship between the independence and individualism fostered by the nature of the sport and the sporting collectivism needed to safely stage triathlons, establish accepted measures of high performance and secure government, media and Olympic...

Author(s)
Hunt, J. E.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
International Journal of the History of Sport, 2015, 32, 16, pp 1914-1928
Abstract

Objective: Ecological models have been applied to investigate multiple domains influencing physical activity behaviour, including individual, social, organisational, community, environmental and policy factors. With regard to the built environment, research to date has been limited to small...

Author(s)
Eime, R. M.; Harvey, J.; Charity, M. J.; Casey, M.; Westerbeek, H.; Payne, W. R.
Publisher
Wiley, Melbourne, Australia
Citation
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2017, 41, 3, pp 248-255
Abstract

This special issue contributes to a critical understanding of the challenges key stakeholders across the globe encounter as they seek to manage periods of transition brought about by public policy change relating to the provision of sport and physical activity. Specific topics addressed by the 10...

Author(s)
Ziakas, V.; Beacom, A.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Managing Sport and Leisure, 2018, 23, 4/6, pp 255-433

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