“…Interestingly, there does not appear to be a great deal of difference between regime types in terms of hoped-for legacies; thus, advanced capitalist, autocratic and communist states share similar aims through hosting SMEs. The above works have been complemented admirably by those who focus on the main aims set out by specific sports events -which generally equate to hoped-for legacies from the events -the most notable of which, in the context of the Olympic Games, includes: Sydney's hosting of the 2000 Games (Faulkner et al, 2000;Stewart et al, 2004;Cashman, 2006;Lenskyj, 2012;Veal et al, 2012); the beleaguered 2004 Games in Athens (Tziralis et al, 2006;Hede, 2005;Boukas et al, 2013); the 'communist-consumerist' 2008 Games in Beijing (Xu, 2006;Jinxia and Managan., 2008;Manzenreiter, 2010;Zhang and Zhao, 2009;Preuss and Alfs, 2011;Giulianotti, 2015); the London 2012 Games (Girginov and Hills, 2008;2009;Girginov, 2011;Bloyce and Lovett, 2012;Green, 2012;Weed et al, 2012;Weed, 2014; Devine, 2013); Sochi's staging of the 2014 Winter Olympics (Alekseyena, 2014;Orttung and Zhemukhov, 2014;Grix and Kramareva, 2015;Muller, 2015;Golubchikov, 2017); and Rio's organization of the 2016 Games (Almeida et al, 2014;Osorio and Versiani, 2014;Rocha, 2015;Bizarro et al, 2016).…”