The aim of this article is to explore Olympic-led sport policy changes (as part of Olympic
legacy) for China triggered by the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympic
Games. Although there has been a burgeoning of research interest in analysing Olympic-
triggered changes and legacies, with focus on various areas such as economic,
sociocultural, and environmental issues, little is known about the changes that the hosting of
the Olympics Games stimulates in a host nation's sport policy. Drawing from policy document …

Since the term legacy first appeared in the Melbourne 1956 candidacy for the XVI Olympiad
(Leopkey, 2009), debates on Olympic legacy analysis started with how to define legacy and
moved on to how to measure legacy, and to more recently how to plan and deliver legacy.
The last decade has seen burgeoning research interest in legacy and impact analysis for the
Olympic Games, encompassing areas including economic impacts (Baade & Matheson,
2002; Blake, 2005; Kasimati & Dawson, 2009; Preuss, 2004), sociocultural impacts (Truno …