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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.

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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

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