... relationships, although in reality demand for services did not increase. health promotion health services Olympic Games; mass gatherings; sexual health Large-scale mass gatherings such as the Olympic Games present significant health challenges to the host country, including public health issues and increased...

... criticism design culture design history historiography internationalism media events mega-events Olympic Games The modern Olympics, the elite of all sporting events, are an invented nineteenth-century tradition, formalized by the efforts of the French aristocrat and educational theorist Pierre de...

...John Hughson E-mail: [email protected] © The Author [2012]. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Design History Society. All rights reserved. 2012 Abstract ‘Olympic Games Melbourne: 1956’, the poster designed by Richard Beck for the XVI Olympiad, introduced a significant...

... motivations for participants in high-level sports competitions is setting records. This paper explores the duration of athletic events records since the Modern Olympic Games have been held. Due to the lack of independence between the duration of these records, the use of traditional survival analysis...

...Sophia Rhizopoulou Fig. 2. This olive garland is the official symbol of the Olympic Games 2004 (Athens 2004). The nature always sets out to achieve what is best. Theophrastus, The causes of plants I.16.11 The origin of the Olympic Games is lost in the mists of history; yet...

... wheat. For meat they ate the flesh of oxen, bulls, goats, and deer; they rubbed themselves with the oil of the wild olive and phylia. This style of living made them free from sickness and they kept their youth a long time. Some of them competed in eight Olympic games, others for nine; they were...

...This chapter examines the oaths taken by Olympic athletes in ancient Greece, and their relation to a series of actual and alleged Olympic scandals that erupted in the late fifth and fourth centuries. It looks at the issue of cheating in the Olympic Games by focusing on the experience of the Spartan...

...The Olympic Games are the highest-profile multidiscipline sport events in human history. Their contemporary manifestation as a global media event has attracted the largest viewing figures for any sporting event; the London 2012 Olympic Games reportedly generated 3.6 billion viewers worldwide...

... a central role in the community’s identity formation. A recent example of the appearance of the babougera ritual, the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens (2004). In this dancescape of modernity, Kalivrysiotes negotiate their identity and appear as “super-Greeks.” Appadurai Arjun...

...Roots of Counterterrorism. Constant Willem Hijzen, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2024. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197786031.003.0009 For many Western countries, the events at the Olympic Games in Munich, in the Summer of 1972, were a catalyst...

...This chapter focuses on epitēdeumata linked to movement, physicality, and reproduction in ancient Greece. It examines the myth of the chariot-race between Oenomaus and Pelops as a foundation myth for a footrace or running. It argues that the Olympic Games's 200-metre one-way sprint...

...The fifth chapter, ‘Hailing a Racial Kinship: Performances of Greek Tragedies during the Third Reich’, interprets the Olympic Games in Berlin (1936) and Lothar Müthel’s production of the Oresteia as part of it as the attempt to present Nazi Germany as the genuine heir of ancient...

...Oxford University Press In Sydney 2000 Mike McKiernan briefly explores the vast number of medical equipment and personnel needed at the Olympic Games. industrial medicine occupational medicine occupational physician medical equipment Olympic Games. Olympics Sydney McKiernan...

... on the ritual collective, to Erving Goffman’s analysis of the ritualizing individual.] Cusack 2010 [This chapter proposes a fivefold relationship between sport and religion, and examines these five associations through detailed case studies of the ancient Olympic Games and sumo wrestling...

... of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police Franco Marielle human rights Olympic Games Haddad Fernando Minas Gerais Social Liberal Party PSL Trump Donald J Carvalho Olavo de Christianity Evangelical Christianity LGBTQ nationalism populism armed forces Bolsonaro Carlos Bolsonaro Eduardo Bolsonaro...

...This book explores the ideological constructs that accompanied the conversion of Barcelona into a global city. The transformation of Barcelona must be interpreted in accordance with the municipal government aimed to prepare the city to host the Olympic Games and to make it appealing in the long run...

...This introductory chapter provides a background of the eight-oared crew race event in the Berlin Olympic Games on August 14, 1936. That race is mostly forgotten today, but in its day it was covered extensively by the U.S. press and networks, and it would later be remembered and celebrated...

... across Germany and the world descended upon the German capital, the Nazi hosts cleverly exploited every opportunity to generate much-needed foreign currency and goodwill from international travelers. The Olympic Games, it was clear, had been transformed. In 1936, they became more broadly experiential...

.... In its conclusions, the chapter will discuss a sort of paradox: the Reagan administration was increasingly involved in the promotion of what it presented as a government-free edition of the Olympics. Los Angeles Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Organizing Olympic Committee LAOOC media coverage Olympic...

... its narrow commercial interests against the wishes of Washington. This chapter also surveys Anglo-American cooperation and competition as it pertained to the boycott of the 1980 summer Olympic games, the Iranian hostage situation and the Trident nuclear weapons agreement between London and Washington...