The Olympic family? Young people, family practices and the London 2012 Olympic Games

Abstract

T L O P G I G people to engage in sport. The paper explores the ways in which a group of young people in the North West of England and the East of Scotland experienced the Games in the context of their everyday family and relational lives. Using a family practices theoretical framework and Olympics on television served as an opportunity for families to express their sport and physical Empirical data from the study is presented alongside critical explorations of the neoliberal policy and political context of the London 2012 Games. Discussion focuses on how sport legacy policy (and sport and physical activity policy in general) could be reconceptualised and reconstructed to include a family practices perspective.

Sport Events for Sport Participation: A Scoping Review

“…The limited focus on youth is particularly problematic as many of these claims of increases in sport participation are made about youth populations. Moreover, the majority of studies that include youth populations are conducted in the context of mega or large sport events, such as the London Olympics (e.g., Griffiths and Armour, 2013 ; Mackintosh et al, 2015 ; Darko and Mackintosh, 2016 ; Kohe and Bowen-Jones, 2016 ; Sandercock et al, 2016 ; Such, 2016 ; Kohe, 2017 ) and Vancouver Olympics (e.g., Craig and Bauman, 2014 ; Potwarka and Leatherdale, 2016 ). Of note, Dubnewick et al ( 2018 ) and Silvey et al ( 2018 ) considered the impact of the Indigenous Traditional Games and the Newfoundland and Labrador Winter Games, respectively, on Indigenous youths' sport participation.…”