Olympics

Since China was awarded the Olympic Games in 2008, human rights organisations and politicians have applied pressure on the International Olympic Committee to use the Games as a lever to improve China’s human rights record. But...

Organisers of the Olympic Games in Beijing have promised that foreign journalists can travel freely around China, interview who they want and enjoy uncenscored access to the Internet during the Games. New freer regulations on...

As co-author of The Beijing Olympiad: The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event, Dr. Paul Close has analysed China’s approach to the Olympic Games, as well as the intense interest in how China will treat the Western inspired...

The report looks at sporting events and tourism, the television audience and the impact of hosting the Olympic Games on a city's tourism infra structure. It ends with studies of Barcelona and Sydney: cities that have had...

Read about the Beijing 2008 Olympics and learn more about the current social conditions in China.

In this paper, Ph.D. Hai Ren of the Beijing Sport University provides expert knowledge on China's expectations for the 2008...

Huge sporting events are a break from every day life.

But they are expensive. Event organisers understimate the costs and exaggerate the revenues for the event and for the host country, says Harry Arne Solberg of the...

Lars Bernhard Jørgensen adresses the importance of the Olympic game and the reasons why cities like Copenhagen are so eager to host the games.

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Jørgen Delman presents the history of China's modern development on its way from being a developing country to an economically strong nation in relation to the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

On the opening day of Play the Game 2005, Kelli White, former World Champion in sprint, took the stand to explain why she had decided to use drugs to enhance her performance. In addition to being an apology, her story was also...

This summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing is being bushwhacked by politics as demonstrators use every chance to hijack the world’s biggest sporting event and highlight problems in Tibet. Many demonstrators would like to see Tibet...