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Future Olympics will be required to report on their legacies for up to five years after the event under the IOC’s new framework.
A lack of federal funding for their training, travel or living expenses leaves many elite American athletes juggling day jobs and scrambling to pay their bills.
It would seem obvious athletes are the most important part of the Olympics. But competing issues, from sponsorship rules to politics, means the rights of athletes aren’t always the top priority.
Olympics have often provided the impetus for large-scale broadcasting innovations, such as when TV was introduced in Australia to broadcast the 1956 Games.
The politics of Russia’s Olympic doping ban.
The long winter Olympic journey from Chamonix in 1924 to PyeongChang in 2018.
In these Olympics more than most, there is less global attention on the medal count than on who will win the politics.
The Olympic Games are an ideal venue to showcase new ideas to world. In a world where reducing carbon emissions is a priority, could the Olympics be doing more?
As the Olympics get underway, what would the man who founded the modern Olympic movement think? Pierre de Coubertin’s vision of the Olympics as a tool of peace and faith in youth still resonates.
Doping scandals have dominated the build-up to the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics.
In a sporting diplomatic coup, North and South Korea will march under a unified flag at Pyeongchang 2018.
The ban on Russia competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics is unique: it is directly linked to the country’s lack of sporting integrity.
The benefits of hosting the Olympics are so slim, or nonexistent, that fewer cities are bidding to host the games. That’s a sign of serious trouble.
McDonald’s recently ended a 40-year relationship with the Olympics. Was the decision based on the tarnished Olympic brand or were there other reasons?
The International Olympic Committee could suspend Kenya, putting it in the company of Kuwait.
Since the 1970s, several Asian countries, such as China, Japan, and South Korea, have strongly increased their influence in the Olympic movement.
A recent decision by the International Olympic Committee has cheerleading under consideration for Tokyo 2020. But its very status as a sport has constantly been questioned.
From Sharapova to the Brownlee brothers, 2016 has given us one step forward to one step back.
Women are still grossly underrepresented as chairpeople, directors or chief executives of international sporting bodies, to the great detriment of those sports.
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Fellow, Saint Mary’s University
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Professor, School of Psychological and Social Sciences, University of Waikato
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport, University of Stirling
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Honorary Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University, London, Canada; Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic and Paralympic Research Centre, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University
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Assistant Professor, School of Media, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology and Physical Education, University of Toronto
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