The study of sport event legacies has grown rapidly since 2000 across a number of
disciplines related to planning and hosting large-scale sport events. However, to date, there …

Marijke Taksa*, Laurence Chalipb and B. Christine Greenb aDepartment of Kinesiology,
University of Windsor, Windsor, Canada; bDepartment of Recreation, Sport & Tourism …

A mega sport event involves huge investments in city infrastructure. After the event, the
structures that remain may be an asset to the stakeholders, or they may be a burden. Faced …

This article presents the development of a new approach for measuring mega sport event
legacy and is based on the Olympic Games as a reference. The legacy of mega sport events …

Elite sport currently enjoys high levels of investment in many advanced capitalist countries.
The primary aim of this piece is to introduce and unpack the reasons generally given by …

It is impossible to fully understand contemporary society and culture without acknowledging
the place of sport. Sport is part of our social and cultural fabric, possessing a social and …

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics
help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

This contribution offers a theoretical perspective on the social impacts of sport events. Most
research in this area has focused on global mega sport events (MSEs). However, given the …

Sport participation is a claimed benefit of elite sport events, but the facts do not support that
claim, and means to capitalise upon events in order to build participation have yet to be …