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In the last 40 years, the "Great Sporting Events" such as Olympic Games have gained increasing popularity and, at the same time, increased international importance. The geographical space where major sporting events take place is not a passive container of such performances, on the contrary, the territorialization of mega-events is an expression of political, economic, and cultural interests. Although their duration is ephemeral, they have a very significant impact on a local, regional and global scale. Countries compete to host these events to obtain greater visibility, improve their infrastructure, attract tourist flows, and ultimately, achieve a territorial projection on a regional and global scale. Olympic Games as an instrument of state soft power politics: the case of Winter Olympic Games Sochi 2014 is a work of research that describes how was the international behavior of Russia in the role of the organizer of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games and the consequent use of such great event in foreign policy, with the ultimate aim of standing out politically on the international scene.

Planning & managing the 1984 Olympic Games presented unique financial & intergovernmental challenges for city officials in Los Angeles, Calif, but governmental cooperation & an innovative public/private partnership to finance & run the Games proved to be successful. Under strict restrictions against spending local tax dollars, the City of Los Angeles assigned management of the Games to a nonprofit committee that raised private funds to finance the Games. In cooperation with surrounding jurisdictions & the federal government, the city provided key services (such as police & fire protection, transportation planning, & visitor services) under contract to the Olympic Committee & used two Olympic-related taxes to pay for these services, with the Olympic Committee paying for additional expenses. The 1984 Olympics resulted in an estimated economic impact of $3.3 billion on southern Calif & left Los Angeles with a number of new & refurbished sports & cultural facilities. Moreover, the Olympic Organizing Committee accrued a surplus of over $215 million, 40% of which was targeted to benefit youth sports organizations in southern Calif. 2 Tables. HA

The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie

Women's participation in sports is a recent phenomenon characterizing changes in F roles in society. Investigated here is whether indicators of F participation in the Olympic Games parallel models & theories of F participation in the LF. Findings indicate a close relationship between the two types of participation; it is argued that the same social conditions that foster social change in one domain also foster change in others. Modified HA.

Beijing organized the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, and the main goal of the Chinese government regarding this event was to hold a Green Olympics. A difference-in-differences approach was used to estimate the environmental impact the Olympic Games on air quality improvement in Beijing, compared to improvements in other areas in China. The results indicate that compared to other regions, air quality in Beijing improved for a short period of time. These improvements were largely due to the implementation of several temporary measures, including factory closures and traffic control. However, there is no evidence indicating that the Olympic Games reduced the concentration of sulfur dioxide in Beijing.

Previous studies investigating media coverage of sport in Australia during normal programming indicate that women's sport receives less than 10 percent of the air-time given to men's. This study of the Australian television coverage of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics found that female events received 32.9 percent and 27.7 percent, respectively, of the Games televised. While it is unfortunate that this is the exception, rather than the rule, it may provide a key to breaking existing patterns of sports programming and thus reduce gender inequities by demonstrating that during the Olympics female sports rank highly in terms of viewer popularity as well as in terms of increased air-time.

George Floridis is former minister of public order of Greece and member of parliament.