We examine the impact of fantasies used in redevelopment sport mega-event cities on host communities; particularly as related to male-dominated FIFA World Cup and forced prostitution. start with a discussion event fantasies, those that circulate relation humanitarian aid alleged involvement women children labour sexual exploitation. trace these across several since 2006 Cup, hosted Germany, lev...

The paper presents a novel approach to real-time event detection in sports broadcasts. We present how the same underlying audio-visual feature extraction algorithm based on new global image descriptors is robust across a range of different sports alleviating the need to tailor it to a particular sport. In addition, we propose and evaluate three different classifiers in order to detect events us...

the purpose of this research was to aesthetically investigate and to analyze live multi-camera television broadcast of soccer matches. the research method was qualitative with in-depth and semi-open interviews. the statistical population consisted of 15 national and international sport producers and directors out of which 10 subjects were purposively selected as the sample of the study. this st...

This communication presents a phonostylistic description of sport live media reports, contrasting three different sports, basketball, football (‘soccer’) and rugby. It is based on 12minute long recordings for each sport. The corpus is aligned at a phone level with EasyAlign, and manually annotated for the type of event in the game. It is analyzed with ProsoReport and ProsoDyn tools, a set of Pr...

Event portfolios are a useful way for destination managers to holistically manage their community’s collection of events and, through strategic integration and common objectives, more effectively produce benefits. However, regular sport such as those played by professional teams in league have received little attention from event portfolio researchers. Understanding the value utility team asset...

Youth have very high participation rates in sport, and sport is the leading cause of youth injury in many countries. Canadian studies report that 30–40% of youth (ages 11–18 years) seek medical attention for a sport injury annually. 7 While physical activity prevents all-cause morbidity associated with a sedentary lifestyle, injuries can become a barrier to physical activity. Injury prevention ...