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This book chapter was written two years before the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and focused on the hopes and legacy expectations of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad programme. The Cultural Olympiad programme forms part of the logic of equalitarian management between the two mega-sport events, the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Indeed, among the proposals that emerged from the IOC 2000 Commission, was recommendation 15 which proposed the formalisation of stronger ties between the IOC and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). As a result, nowadays Paralympic and Olympic athletes perform in the same stadiums, are hosted in the same Olympic Village and there is the same organising committee for both events (Pappous, Marcellini & de Leseleuc, 2011). The parallels between the Olympic and Paralympic Games is also reflected in the celebration of a common Cultural Olympiad. |
