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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …