Volunteering in community sports associations: A literature review

G Nichols - Voluntaristics Review, 2017 - brill.com
This review paper focuses on volunteers in community sports associations (csa s). Such
associations are a major context of sports volunteering across Europe, Canada and …

Scrutinizing the sport pyramid metaphor: an examination of the relationship between elite success and mass participation in Flanders

V De Bosscher, P Sotiriadou… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Many governments use the trickle-down or demonstration effect to justify their high
investments in an elite sport. The assumption is that elite success increases mass …

Olympic legacies: recurrent rhetoric and harsh realities

A Tomlinson - Contemporary Social Science, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article traces the genesis of the principle of legacy as it has featured in Olympic
discourse, and become enshrined in the expressed philosophy of the International Olympic …

Bowling even more alone: Trends towards individual participation in sport

S Harris, G Nichols, M Taylor - European sport management …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Research question: In the 1990s trends in sports participation in England revealed that
participation in individual sports was growing whilst participation in team sports was in …

Delivery networks and community sport in England

S Harris, B Houlihan - International journal of public sector …, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The paper aims to utilise Adam and Kriesi's network approach to policy analysis to
examine the range of exogenous factors that affect interactions in the community sport policy …

[PDF][PDF] Олимпизм и олимпийское образование: история, современность, будущее

М Булатова, В Платонов - Наука в олимпийском спорте, 2018 - irbis-nbuv.gov.ua
АННОТАЦИЯ Цель. Изучение Олимпийских игр и олимпийского движения как
совокупности явлений и процессов исторического, социально-экономического …

Rhetoric and realities of London 2012 Olympic education and participation 'legacies': Voices from the core and periphery

GZ Kohe, W Bowen-Jones - Sport, education and society, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
A legacy emphasis was one of the fundamental pillars of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
The notion of an Olympic legacy was predicated on assumptions that the event's value …

Sport development in challenging times: Leverage of sport events for legacy in disadvantaged communities

B Bell, J Daniels - Creating and Managing a Sustainable Sporting …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
This paper is focused on the legacy of 2016 BMX World SuperCross event held in
Manchester. In the current social, political and economic climate, the consideration of wider …

Оlympism and the Olympic education: history, modernity, future

M Bulatova, V Platonov - 2019 - reposit.uni-sport.edu.ua
Objective. Study of the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement as an aggregate of
phenomena and processes of historical, socio-economic, political, educational, and purely …

London 2012 (Re) calling: Youth memories and Olympic 'legacy'ether in the hinterland

GZ Kohe - International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Engendering interest and support among young people was a key strategy for the
organisers of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Part of the approach entailed promoting the …