The Olympic legacy

the olympic transport legacy

A Lasting Legacy for London?, a document produced by the London Assembly,2 has highlighted key points of the legacy of previous Games. The legacy left by the Games in four previous host cities – Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000 and Athens in 2004 – was assessed for nine key sectors. These results are summarised in Table 1 overleaf, which analyses the data using a scorecard sys...

Olympic Games: No legacy for sports

Countries whose cities host the Summer Olympic Games increase significantly their success during the competition.We study whether such effect is lasting or not. We compute the effect of hosting on the total number of medals in the subsequent games. To confront the issue that the selection of the host city is endogenous, we use a natural counterfactual: countries whose cities also bid for the Ol...

Sport and exercise medicine and the Olympic health legacy

London 2012 is the first Olympic and Paralympic Games to explicitly try and develop socioeconomic legacies for which success indicators are specified - the highest profile of which was to deliver a health legacy by getting two million more people more active by 2012. This editorial highlights how specialists in Sport and Exercise Medicine can contribute towards increasing physical activity part...

Local development and the Olympic Winter Games’ legacy

Enriching the Legacy of Athens ' 2004 Olympic Village :

The year is 2004. Athens, the capital of Greece is hosting the Olympic Games for the first time in 108 years. Athens, to accommodate the needs of the XXVIII Olympiad, has altered the form of the city through major infrastructure projects. The Olympic Village, as one of these projects, is a place with significant information infrastructure and transformation capabilities that will contribute to ...