The Enhanced Games: a timely injection for the International Olympic Committee

Autor: David Ekdahl, Jörg Krieger

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Vol 6 (2024)

The Enhanced Games, a privately funded sporting megaevent aspiring to rival the Olympic Games, have garnered significant media attention since its public inception in 2023. This attention has primarily been driven by the Enhanced Games’ embrace of

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International sport governing bodies as agents of diffusion—The case of World Athletics

Autor: Mara Konjer, Henk Erik Meier, Jörg Krieger

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Vol 4 (2022)

The current paper conceptualizes international sport governing bodies (ISGBs) as “agents of diffusion,” whose key strategic interest is in the broadest participation in their sports. Our research examines the impact of a specific diffusion strate

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Women in International Elite Athletics: Gender (in)equality and National Participation

Autor: Henk Erik Meier, Mara Verena Konjer, Jörg Krieger

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, Vol 3 (2021)

Gender discrimination has been strongly related to the suppression of women's participation in sport. Accordingly, gender (in)equality has proven to be an important determinant for the participation and the success of countries in international women

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Something’s Gotta Give::Bent Rules, Breached Bottom Line, and the International Amateur Athletics Federations’ Handling of the 'China Question'

Autor: Y. Andrew Hao, Jörg Krieger

Publikováno v: Hao, Y A & Krieger, J 2023, ' Something’s Gotta Give: Bent Rules, Breached Bottom Line, and the International Amateur Athletics Federations’ Handling of the “China Question” ', Sport History Review, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 129-148 . https://doi.org/10.1123/shr.2022-0033

International Sport Federations, as part of the Olympic network, have different organizational structures and decision-making mechanisms from the International Olympic Committee. The authors, in examining the history of the International Amateur Athl

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‘The world will be watching and so will NSA!’: A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games

Autor: Austin Duckworth, Jörg Krieger

Publikováno v: Duckworth, A & Krieger, J 2021, ' ‘The world will be watching, and so will NSA!’ : A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games ', Paper presented at North American Society for Sport History Conference, 28/05/2021-31/05/2021 .
Duckworth, A & Krieger, J 2021, ' ‘The world will be watching and so will NSA!’: A History of Technology and Security at the Olympic Games ', The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol. 38, no. 2-3, pp. 264-281 . https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2021.1909574

The postponed 2020 Tokyo summer Olympics will be the first Olympic games to officially use facial recognition technology as a security measure. The use of such advanced technology to protect the Olympics continues a trend of Olympic organizers employ

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