The Olympic flame and torch are significant symbols of the Olympic Games and are important in linking the general public with the festival. They are internationally recognized symbols, particularly important at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies. “It is through the opening and closing ceremonies and the torch relay that the Olympiad must distinguish itself from another series of world champions...

T he paper uses Heckman model to examine the statistical importance of over 140 independent variables on the Olympic performance of all countries participating in the Summer Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to Rio 2016. We find that countries which export more products have a higher likelihood of winning an Olympic medal than their counterparts exporting fewer products, and explain why...

THE SYDNEY 2000 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES By the time the Olympic Games began, over 11,300 athletes and 5,100 officials from 200 countries had arrived in Sydney. Over the Games period, a succession of mass gatherings took place, including the Olympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies. The latter event saw 110,000 spectators and thousands of athletes at Stadium Australia, and an estimated 1,000,...

Daniel Robey was the accepting senior editor for this paper. The authors were invited to submit this paper to a planned special issue of MIS Quarterly on lessons that the information systems discipline and other business disciplines can learn from each other. Unfortunately, not enough other papers on this theme were received to justify the publication of a special issue. Orlikowski and Barley’s...

Prior to the late 1960s, Canadian Olympic teams did not consistently include a physician or a health care team. The thirty-six medical personnel accompanying Canada’s 265 athletes at the 2004 Olympics games in Athens represent the growth of the sports medicine field in both Canada and at the Olympic games. This paper chronicles and analyzes the changing composition of the Canadian Olympic teams...

T Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement differ from other sport events and sport organizations as they are officially linked to an ideology, that is, to “... a systematic set of arguments and beliefs used to justify an existing or desired social order.” In the Olympic Charter, the “rule book” of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the official version of these arguments and beliefs is a...

History records what happened in the past. Do you remember the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles? Xu Haifeng, the Chinese athlete, won China’s first gold medal for shooting. Do you remember the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona? Zhang Shan, a female Chinese athlete, outperformed all male athletes and became the only female champion in the history of skeet shooting. Do you remember the 1996 Olympi...