Athletes and their support staff, International Olympic Committee (IOC) family, technical staff, contractors, volunteers, sponsors, media and spectators all are essential participants in the biggest festival of sport in the world. They all need healthcare, but the priority for the IOC and any organising committee of an Olympic Games (OCOG) is protecting the health of athletes. The demands of at...

In 1979, Canada’s federal government published a national policy on amateur sport. The policy document was ambiguously titled: Partners in the Pursuit of Excellence. In 2005, the federal government committed $55 million to an externally managed program titled Own the Podium. Unlike the policy document from 1979, there is nothing ambiguous about Own the Podium. It makes a definitive statement ab...

This study investigates Chinese perceptions of Rio’s destination image before and after the 2016 Olympics. Samples 573 564 residents from Shanghai were surveyed event. The Olympics raised awareness Rio as an Olympic host city. Post-games affective tourist attractions higher for people aware that had hosted However, pre-games tourism infrastructure service in lower participants would Olympics, p...

The performance results of the athletes competed in the 1988-2008 Olympic Games were analyzed (n = 166). The data were obtained from the IAAF official protocols. In the principal component analysis, the first three principal components explained 70% of the total variance. In the 1st principal component (with 43.1% of total variance explained) the largest factor loadings were for 100m (0.89), 40...