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Caster Semenya’s gold medal in the women’s 800 metres track event at the Rio Olympics may be supplemented, in coming months, by an upgrade from silver to gold for the same event at the London Games. Re-testing…
Instead of showcasing a rising global power with a booming economy, the 2014 Games put a spotlight on Brazil’s most serious economic recession since the 1930s, along with a host of social problems.
Have we reached peak human?
Amanda Beard, Ian Thorpe, Allison Schmidt, McKayla Maroney – many athletes have dealt with depression after the Olympic Games.
Child sport success relies on having a positive parental influence.
It’s time to finally put art on the Olympic map, prove the sceptics wrong, and renew and advance some of the more tired aspects of the Games staging process.
Australia finished tenth on the medal table in the Rio 2016 Games, well below what the nation’s latest funding strategy had led people to expect.
A candid assessment of the impact of the games, from an academic on the ground.
If empty seats and other Olympics are anything to go by, it’s unlikely Brazil will get a tourism boost from Rio 2016.
Amid the hand-wringing about the price of an Olympic medal, our experts crunched the numbers on the cost of success in the arts. And at A$8 million per international award, it turns out that elite culture is a lot better value than sport.
Olympic athletes play an important role within the sport-for-development agenda. But because they both inspire and lead, coaches may be better placed to assume that mantle.
The commonly believed mechanism for increasing sport participation assumes that elite sport performances result in a greater number of people taking up sport.
Corporations benefit from using public spaces during the Olympic Games – but Rio made sure local businesses also got a slice of the pie.
Photographers can’t pay the bills with Instagram likes – but it’s pushing them to capture more spectacular images than ever before.
A 1992 paper predicted that if women’s running performance continued to improve as rapidly as it had since the 1920s, top women athletes would soon be running as quickly as the men.
There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that attempts to manipulate the outcome of the competitions are as old as the Games themselves.
Olympic equestrian events are celebrated for allowing men and women to compete with and against one another. But is this joining of hands and hooves a win for gender equality?
Television is dead; long live the Olympics.
Looking back on the legacy of London 2012, it’s clear the local artistic community has lost out.
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, University of Salford
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Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
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Lecturer in Event Management, University of the West of Scotland
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Professor of Sport Management, Sheffield Hallam University
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling
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Assistant Professor of Sport Management, Bond Business School, Bond University
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Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, University of Hertfordshire
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Associate Research Fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of Sport Management, University of Stirling
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Research Leader, Sport, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living, Victoria University
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Director, Cities of Culture Research Observatory, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia
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Senior lecturer in Screen Media, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer, Department for Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Bath
