The International Olympic Committee has recognised that athletes use their social media accounts to build their personal brands.
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Patriotic coverage helps forge the Olympics’ sense of community, weaving viewers’ lives together with athletes’ struggles and triumphs.
The use of sport as an evangelical tool is not new for the Catholic Church. Pope Pius X welcomed athletes in 1905 for the first international gymnastics competition in the Vatican gardens.
In sports-mad Australia, the Olympics are always a huge deal. But does this interest result in increased sports participation?
Sports activities can expose you to pollutants that are hazardous to your health.
Researchers used AI to analyze photos of Olympic medalists and found that bronze medalists appeared happier than silver medalists. A cognitive process called ‘counterfactual thinking’ may explain why.
With the Paris Olympics and Canada’s Future of Sport Commission both to start soon, this is a timely critique of the Canadian sport system.
While there has been a surge of terror plots in Europe in recent months, an attack on the Olympics would require a group to have the intent, capability and opportunity.
African states won new power when they demanded New Zealand withdraw because of their rugby tour of apartheid South Africa.
Olympic breakdancers spin on their heads and backs, then freeze in funky poses. How? It’s all about physics.
France is ready for the Olympics. It also needs to be ready for this virus.
Here’s how to reduce heat-related health risks during major sporting events, from the Summer Olympics to test cricket. Athletes, officials, spectators and volunteers all need to take responsibility.
Laïcité, which historically upheld individual freedom, denies minority rights today, as seen in the ban on French athletes wearing hijabs at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
With the Paris Olympics and the 35th anniversary of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child approaching, now is the ideal time to focus on protecting the rights of child athletes.
Sporting events like the Olympic Games claim to promote equality and human dignity, yet are frequently used to marginalize people. Perhaps it’s time to consign Olympism to the dustbin of history.
In an effort to bring the Olympics to a wider and younger audience, breaking is the latest “sport” to make its debut at Paris 2024. But how will it work as a scored sport?
The World Anti-Doping Agency stands by its handling of the allegations. So, why have some in the media and in the US been so quick to point the finger at China?
Paris will be at the centre of the global sporting stage this summer.
The Olympic Games have also been highly political events – Paris 2024 will be no different.
Do big sporting events such as the Olympics help boost tourist numbers in the long run? It all depends on where they take place, according to research.
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Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
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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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Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania
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Professor and Chair of Allied Health Studies, Stephen F. Austin State University
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Associate Professor of Education, Charles Sturt University
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Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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Associate Teaching Professor in Religious Studies, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Sport Business, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia
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Project Manager, International Centre for Olympic Studies, Western University
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Professor, School of Psychological and Social Sciences, University of Waikato
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Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology, Western University
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Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University
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Professor of AfroEurasian Sport, EM Lyon Business School
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology of Sport, University of Toronto