BACKGROUND About one of every 5 athletes who participated in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta had a past history of asthma, had symptoms that suggested asthma, or took asthma medications. No previous study has determined the prevalence of asthma in all US athletes who participated in an Olympic Winter Games. OBJECTIVES We sought to determine how many US athletes who participated in th...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Although the World wars and Cold war lead to cancellations and large boycotts of the Olympic Games in the 1900s, and various negative issues have hindered the Games throughout the years, the Olympic Games have been consistently bringing the world together ev...

It is not clear whether interactions among superstar employees lead to an increase in productivity. Such are relatively rare, and measuring productivity challenging. In this paper, it suggested that these difficulties can be overcome by analysing changes the performance of elite National Basketball Association (NBA) players who participate Olympic Games. By using advanced individual measures, s...

Planning, designing, and implementing systems to support venue operations at the Olympic Games is complicated. The organizing committees must create designs that result in reliable, high-quality venue operations at reasonable cost. The organizational backdrop is unique. The organizing committee has a limited lifetime, it has no organizational memory, any learning disappears with its dissolution...

O n 2 July 2003, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Canada with the rights to host the 2010 Winter Games. The XXI Olympic and X Paralympic Winter Games took place from 12 to 28 February and from 12 to 21 March 2010, respectively, in the Vancouver, British Columbia, and Whistler, British Columbia, areas. The 2010 Winter Games showcased the highest-level competition at five indoor ...

Introduction The concerns of this paper are encapsulated in two events which took place in Australia in 2000: the protests in Melbourne at the World Economic Forum and the Olympic Games opening extravaganza. The World Economic Forum exemplified the tensions between the efficiency imperatives of economic globalisation and political imperatives for equity and social cohesion. The egalitarian repr...

The first reported incident of ambush marketing happened in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics when Fuji was the official sponsor for the Games. Kodak, who were not an official sponsor and had not paid any fees to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), still managed to benefit from the worldwide publicity of the event by sponsoring the UK track and field team. Since then, sporting organisations ...