We describe the experience of the international cooperation carried out for antidoping control at the XI Pan American Games. A temporary accreditation was granted by the International Olympic Committee to the accredited laboratory of Barcelona (Spain) to set up a Doping Control Laboratory in Havana. Two other laboratories from Mexico and Cuba contributed personnel, materials, and instrumentatio...

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...

Major international hallmark events, especially the Olympic Games, represent a significant opportunity for marketing tourism to the host country. Due to the scale and importance of the event, the coordination between the Olympic organizing committee and the destination marketing organization of the host country becomes a knowledge-intensive and exceptionally complicated task. Analyzing on-site ...

The demand for wireless services has increased rapidly in the past years and this trend is expected to continue faster in the future. So far most of the available spectrum resources have already been licensed and there is not much bandwidth left to set up new services [Farhang-Boroujeni et al. 2008]. On the other hand, studies reveal that a large percent of licensed spectra is rarely used. The ...

UNLABELLED The lay press, scientists, and physicians appear to believe that gymnasts are continually getting smaller and that their "smallness" is a health risk. PURPOSE To assess the historical changes in the size and age of the US women's Olympic gymnastics teams from 1956 to 2008. METHODS The official records from the US Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics of Olympic team members were a...

When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) set up its headquarters in Lausanne, 1915, it could not have imagined impact decision would on administration of world sport. Thre...