Insights and Investigations of the Social Legacies in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games: The Olympic Games Impact (OGI) Study
Sport, Social Development and Peace
ISBN: 978-1-78350-885-3, eISBN: 978-1-78350-886-0
Publication date: 17 July 2014
Abstract
Purpose
This chapter coins the term Development through Mega-Events (DME) in order to propose a next step for developing social legacies in accordance with the principle of social development.
Design/methodology/approach
This chapter’s argument for DME is developed using quantitative, indicator-based data from the Olympic Games Impact (OGI) study as well as relevant literature from the sub-fields of Sport for Development and Peace and Sport Mega-Events.
Findings
We discuss the absence of a baseline understanding of the properties of sport mega-events. Also absent are progressive efforts to achieve sustainability by means other than competition among prospective bidders. We recommend that hosts tie social legacies to public policy objectives that are concomitant with the properties of the sport mega-events. Retrospectively applied, OGI data from 2010 reveals social inclusion as one potential social legacy that reflects the nature of the Olympics and the policy realm in the host region.
Originality/value
This chapter is original work. It would be of interest to potential host communities, policymakers, and researchers.
Keywords
Citation
VanWynsberghe, R. and Pentifallo, C. (2014), "Insights and Investigations of the Social Legacies in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games: The Olympic Games Impact (OGI) Study", Sport, Social Development and Peace (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 8), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 245-275. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420140000008011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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