Full Description
Sport has long been used as a tool for political gain and many major sporting events are now often framed as a panacea to help combat issues such as rising obesity rates, decreasing physical activity levels and wider urban decline. In reality though, fostering a temporary 'feel-good factor' is the most that many of these events can ever achieve even though a number are now sold on the popular rhetoric of legacy. Drawing upon a range of events and the work of international scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection offers insights into the ways in which events outside of the big two are (re)positioned as part of the wider sporting landscape. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Sport in Society.
Contents
Introduction: the contested terrain of major sporting events John Harris, Fiona Skillen and Matthew L. McDowell Sports mega-events - three sites of contemporary political contestation John Horne Rugby World Cup: new directions or more of the same? Nicholas Wise Using Habermas to crack the European football championships Peter Kennedy Do the scale and scope of the event matter? The Asian Games and the relations between North and South Korea Jung Woo Lee The 1986 Commonwealth Games: Scotland, South Africa, sporting boycotts, and the former British Empire Matthew L. McDowell and Fiona Skillen Sacred turf: the Wimbledon tennis championships and the changing politics of Englishness Stephen Wagg The Ryder Cup, national identities and team USA John Harris, Sangkwon Lee and Mark Lyberger The history of competitive balance in Commonwealth Games Boxing David Chaplin and Sergio Mendoza Young athlete major event experiences: brand co-creators and ambassadors Eric MacIntosh
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