The purpose of the Olympic Games should be to contribute to the social development by leaving behind economic, cultural and environmental legacies to the hosting region. While tangible examples such as venues are often recognized as representative legacies of the Olympics, intangible aspects such as the environment, culture, policy and human resources have been gaining in importance. The Olympi...

Many of us winter sport enthusiasts will still remember the last Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010: fantastic organisation and weather—a real ‘folk festival’ with street parties up in Whistler and in downtown Vancouver. However, we also remember a high number of injuries and tears of disappointment among athletes in the spectacular snowboard and ski freestyle races at Cypress Mountain spec...

Measuring the performance of participating nations in the Olympic Games is an important application of data envelopment analysis (DEA). Prior literature only considers participating nations’ performance in the Summer Olympic Games. It may be unfair to some nations who are good at the Winter Olympics, but poor at the Summer Olympics. Therefore, we believe it is better to consider the two Olympic...

It is now ten years since the Athens Olympic Games in 2004 and questions remain as to how the Greek government has dealt with the Olympic legacy. It is true that the everyday life of the inhabitants of Athens has improved to an unprecedented degree as a result of the mandatory infrastructure projects that were carried out, for example with regard to means of transportation, the rehabilitation o...

BACKGROUND About one of every 5 athletes who participated in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta had a past history of asthma, had symptoms that suggested asthma, or took asthma medications. No previous study has determined the prevalence of asthma in all US athletes who participated in an Olympic Winter Games. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine how many US athletes who participated in th...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Although the World wars and Cold war lead to cancellations and large boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1900s, and various negative issues have hindered the Games throughout the years, the Olympic Games have been consistently bringing the world together ev...