Social impacts of the Sydney Olympics

Waitt, Gordon R

doi:10.1016/s0160-7383(02)00050-6

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“…Two studies have shown that South Africans perceived the FIFA 2010 World Cup to have increased community spirit, pride and wellbeing (Gibson et al 2014;Kaplanidou et al 2013). Similar results were found in Sydney after the 2000 Olympic Games (Waitt 2003). Smaller gains in subjective wellbeing were reported for residents of Rio de Janeiro after the FIFA World Cup 2014, but only if they perceived the atmosphere during the event positively (Pfitzner and Koenigstorfer 2016).…”

Section: Hosting Major Sporting Events and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 78%

Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Mutz

2018

Applied Research Quality Life

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Research on sport events and well-being yield inconclusive results with some studies suggesting that well-being is increasing during major sport events while other studies fail to establish such a relationship. The present study aims at investigating the relationship between sport events and life satisfaction more closely, while at the same time avoiding some methodical pitfalls of prior research. The study uses a representative sample from Germany and had a longitudinal design, covering the time before, during and after the UEFA EURO 2016. Findings demonstrate a significant increase in life satisfaction in Germany during the football competition (d = .17). Further analyses reveal that satisfaction with life is elevated particularly among subjects with a genuine interest in football in general and in the EURO in particular, whereas for those respondents uninterested in football, changes in life satisfaction were mostly insignificant and marginal in size. However, two months after the EURO life satisfaction was already on the decline and drifted towards the baseline level. Hence, the EURO did not produce a persistent change, but rather a short peak in life satisfaction among football affine groups.

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Section: Hosting Major Sporting Events and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 78%

Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Mutz

2018

Applied Research Quality Life

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“…All appropriate attractions in Newquay and the Lizard were invited to participate in the study and their product type and density are summarised in Table 1. All attraction managers in the Lizard cluster (10) agreed to be interviewed and in the Newquay cluster, three managers declined to be interviewed, resulting in a sample of 13 attractions (out of 16). A form of 'framework analysis' was performed on the interviews with the 9 key informants and the 23 attraction managers (Waitt, 2003), which included the procedures of familiarization, classification, and indexation; this allowed the identification of different themes and their coding using Non numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and Theory-building (NUD.IST). The use of NUD.IST for coding allowed building a tree-like interrelated structures, resulting in identifying the important relevant concepts.…”

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Spatial competition and agglomeration in the visitor attraction sector

Weidenfeld

Williams

Butler

2013

The Service Industries Journal

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“…Research by Waitt (2003) into the social impacts of Sydney's Olympic Games demonstrates that local and marginalised people often feel excluded from event benefits.…”

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From 'Event-led' to 'Event-themed' Regeneration: The 2002 Commonwealth Games Legacy Programme

Smith

Fox²

2007

Urban Studies

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Hosting large events has long been associated with the physical regeneration of cities. To supplement these 'hard' impacts, cities are now attempting to use events to stimulate 'softer' social and economic regeneration. This paper evaluates the impacts of the Legacy Programme adopted in conjunction with the 2002 Commonwealth Games held in Manchester, UK. Alongside its emphasis on social and economic regeneration, this programme was unusual in that the projects were games-themed, rather than being directly linked to the event. Despite some concerns about the organisational structures employed and the sustainability of impacts, target beneficiaries have received valuable assistance from the programme. Thus it appears that there are valuable lessons that other cities can learn from this example of event-themed regeneration.

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Social impacts of the Sydney Olympics

Cited by 398 publications

References 18 publications

Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Spatial competition and agglomeration in the visitor attraction sector

From 'Event-led' to 'Event-themed' Regeneration: The 2002 Commonwealth Games Legacy Programme

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