Research question: This study aims to better understand and conceptualise the dynamics of inspirational elite sport. Specifically, taking Belgian hockey as a case study, this article is concerned with understanding how, why, and under what circumstances elite sport influences grassroots sport ...

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 ...

Evaluation of school sports activities is crucial in determining specific strengths and challenges of the programme. This study was designed to evaluate the adequacy of school sports organisation in five-factor categories: sports supplies; teacher-coaches work situation; teacher-coaches...

This study examined the means to encourage collaboration strategy with various local community actors through public sports facility management organizations. Such a collaboration strategy is aimed at activities which consist of local contribution activities provided by public sports facility...

Newly constructed sport facilities are often a staple of hosting major sport events. However, these facilities often become underutilised and present a significant financial burden for host communities. With demonstrated relationships between facility access and physical activity levels, sport ...

Sport participation legacies are often offered as reasons to host mega-sport events, yet there is little evidence to demonstrate the claim's legitimacy, thus we examine "What did Whistler Sports do to leverage the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games to facilitate a sport tourism...

Purpose and problem statement: Sports clubs have a positive impact on many children and adolescents, yet teenagers are increasingly quitting their sports club participation when they reach adolescence. The drop-out phenomenon has been widely studied. Conversely, the factors supporting the...

There has been a hotspot in sports industry these days that is becoming more and more wide-spread in sports organizations and among managers, namely CSR, that is corporate social responsibility. In the life of geographical regions, towns or villages, professional football clubs play a crucial role. ...

Introduction: Understanding the sport situation in a given context is the first step to discover and analyze its "state of the art", at a given moment. This momentary "photograph" should enable the organization, to be situated in the present and, at the same time, to outline the path(s) it intends...

This article presents a case study of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to explore infrastructure development and physical legacies connected to the planning, bidding, and staging of mega-sporting events. Primary data were collected in Cuiabá in two...