A Sustainable Sports Legacy: Creating a Link between the London Olympics and Sports Participation

Girginov, Vassil; Hills, Laura

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“…NGB's of sport remain at the core of Sport England's strategies and sports development aims focusing on helping more individuals in the UK, to undertake a sporting habit for life (Sport England, 2014a Games and sports participation in the host country, using a process-oriented approach. They reviewed the processes involved in envisioning, framing and implementing an Olympic legacy and found that attaining sustainable participation remains achievable, but the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the UK government are influential organisations that can apply substantial impact on sports development, through emphasising it on their agenda and directing resources effectively (Girginov and Hills, 2008). This to date has not occurred, accentuating the questionability of this ambitious aim to improve a nation's PA level, as early as 4 years prior to the London Games.…”

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A case study investigating the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on participation in two non-traditional English sports, Judo and Fencing

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Hayday

2015

Leisure Studies

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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AbstractThe hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOPG) brought with it detailed legacy plans aiming to 'Inspire a Generation'. The idea that hosting a sports megaevent will encourage the host population to engage in more physical activity (PA), is commonly used by governments to justify the large investments they made (Frawley and Cush, 2011). The aim of this research paper was to investigate the impact that hosting the 2012 Games had on grass-root sports participation within the host nation. This paper focuses on two non-traditional English sports, Fencing and Judo and investigated the changes in mass sports participation. The membership rate analysis of our sample highlighted an overall increase in participation between 2007-2013, in both Judo and Fencing. The data gathered from the interviews with the head office staff at the National Governing Bodies (NGB's) and local club coaches suggested that the grass-root participation programmes were the most effective way of increasing participation, rather than the reliance, solely on the inspiration effect from hosting the LOPG itself. Finally, the study highlighted the importance of strengthening communication between local voluntary clubs and the NGB, to ensure sports could promote themselves and capitalise on this global sporting phenomenon, which provided unprecedented media coverage and opportunities for these non-traditional sports. This case study provides initial results relating to the effect that a major international multi-sport event can have in the development of non-popular sports in the host population, in terms of membership variations, participation programmes and organisational dynamics.

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Hayday

2015

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“…This view, in-part, supports the strategic Legacy Action Plan, 8 which the London 2012 Organizing Committee, under the Leadership of Lord Coe, has implemented and which promises a wide-range of social, environmental, health, economic and cultural (e.g., London 2012 Festival) benefits from hosting the summer Olympics and Paralympics. These "Legacy" claims have, nevertheless, come under rigorous scrutiny in the media and academy, with systematic reviews identifying numerous concerns, not least, the financing of a mega-event in a climate of economic retrenchment and a lack of empirical evidence to support the oft-cited hypothesis that hosting the games will lead to increased sport and physical activity participation and enhanced health across the population (Gold and Gold, 2009;Weed, Cored and Fiore, 2009;Girginov and Hills, 2008;Coalter, 2007). Generally, this body of work does, however, provide a hopeful prognosis, in regard to the worth and value of hosting the 2012 Olympiad, if based on flimsy evidence.…”

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C. S. Lewis at the 2012 London Olympics: Reflections on Pride and Humility

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2012

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“…That method relies primarily on the collection of qualitative data, and examination of that knowledge in a descriptive/commentary way for getting conclusions (Johnston, Christensen, and Turner, 2014). In their discussion on the policy process of sport participation legacy, Girginov and Hills (2009), have recommended that a qualitative approach would be useful in analyzing that policy process. This paper has concentrated on the issue of the public sport participation impact from hosting the Olympic Games.…”

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“…Some theoretic aspects of the of sport policy process have been considered in the literature. Girginov and Hills (2009) pointed out the two approaches of studying the sport policy: the positive approach which is considered as an outcome-oriented and the constructivist approach which is a process oriented. Girginov and Hills have justified the study of sport policy through the constructivist view, giving more importance to the process.…”

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Educational Olympic Challenge: the Legacy of Public Sport Participation

Wegman¹

2016

European Proceedings of Social &Amp; Behavioural Sciences

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One of the Olympic impacts is the educational notion of "sport participation". That notion refers to the idea that public participation in sport or physical activity, will increase as a result of the Olympic Games. Promoting the public sport participation became an Olympic demand for hosting the games. The UK government sport bodies have decided to set out to increase the public sport participation as a result of hosting the 2012 Olympic Games. That decision was based on improving sport facilities and on the concept of "demonstration effect". The assumption is that this educational effect is taking place when people observing elite sport performance will be inspired to join in public sport or physical activity. The aims of this paper were to explore the issue of public sport participation as an Olympic legacy, to describe some theories on the challenge of achieving that legacy, and to present some conclusions about that issue relating to London 2012 games. A qualitative approach was used to achieve the aims of this paper. The literature review includes some strategic and educational theories which lie behind the processes of sport participation and demonstration effect. Finally, some research findings and conclusions were presented relating the implementation of the sport participation legacy in the London 2012 games.

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A Sustainable Sports Legacy: Creating a Link between the London Olympics and Sports Participation

Cited by 165 publications

References 15 publications

A case study investigating the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on participation in two non-traditional English sports, Judo and Fencing

A case study investigating the impact of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on participation in two non-traditional English sports, Judo and Fencing

C. S. Lewis at the 2012 London Olympics: Reflections on Pride and Humility

Educational Olympic Challenge: the Legacy of Public Sport Participation

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