Beyond Legacy: Assessing Olympic Games Performance

Olympic Games: No legacy for sports

Countries whose cities host the Summer Olympic Games increase significantly their success during the competition.We study whether such effect is lasting or not. We compute the effect of hosting on the total number of medals in the subsequent games. To confront the issue that the selection of the host city is endogenous, we use a natural counterfactual: countries whose cities also bid for the Ol...

Local development and the Olympic Winter Games’ legacy

the olympic transport legacy

A Lasting Legacy for London?, a document produced by the London Assembly,2 has highlighted key points of the legacy of previous Games. The legacy left by the Games in four previous host cities – Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004 – was assessed for nine key sectors. These results are summarised in Table 1 overleaf, which analyses the data using a scorecard sys...

Effects of Jump Difficulty on the Final Performance in Snowboard-Slopestyle-Winter Olympic Games, Socchi 2014

Background. Despite the increasing popularity of the snowboard, there is not scientific literature for sport performance indicators in this sport. Objectives. To analyze the effects of jump difficulty on the final performance during snowboarding-slopestyle competition. Methods. All competition sequences (n=214) from the 2014 Winter Olympic Games were analyzed. Of these, 123 were from the...

Advances in sports nutrition, exercise and medicine: Olympic issues, the legacy and beyond

In the run up to the London 2012 Olympics, this editorial introduces the cross-journal article collection Advances in Sports Nutrition, Exercise and Medicine http://www.biomedcentral.com/series/asnem.