PRIVATE GAMES / by James Patterson, author 619115, Sullivan, Mark, author 505729

“…As Private works with the 2012 Olympic Games organizing committee in London, Sir Denton Marshall--a key member of the committee--is found decapitated in his garden. …”

“Insular hobbits”? Englishness, Euroscepticism and the Brexit vote in Jonathan Coe’s Middle England (2018) by Guillaume Clément

“…Among other factors, Coe’s satire draws our attention to contemporary representations of Britishness in media and popular culture, for instance in the London 2012 Olympic games’ opening ceremony, with its quite stereotypical, anglocentric portrayal of national identity. …”
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Simplified Data Envelopment Analysis: What Country Won the Olympics, and How about our CO2 Emissions? by Alexander Vaninsky

“…Examples of DEA applications discussed in this paper include the London 2012 Olympic Games and the dynamics of the United States’ environmental performance. …”
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USING GIS TO UNDERSTAND AND PRIORITISE WORKER MOVEMENTS DURING THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS by I. M. McGuinness

“…The performance of the transport network and the associated movement of people was one of the most critical elements to London’s successful delivery of the 2012 Olympic Games. During the planning stages Transport for London asked the London Borough of Newham to mitigate the impact of the authority’s 13 500 employees on transport infrastructure close to the Olympic Park. …”
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Image Based Stroke-Rate Detection System for Swim Race Analysis by Heather Driscoll, Chris Hudson, Marcus Dunn, John Kelley

“…Test images from video footage of a women’s 200 m medley race recorded at the 2012 Olympic Games, was segmented into regions of interest (ROI) consisting of individual lanes. …”
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Performance and the City: Constructing Urban Identities in Contemporary London by Di Michele, Laura

“…Lefebvre (1974), and urban theorists such as Reyner Banham and Kevin Lynch who conceived of the city as a ‘legible’ text, at the same time it argues that textuality and performativity must be perceived as intertwined cultural practices that work together to shape the body of phenomenal, intellectual, psychic, and social encounters that frame a subject’s experience of the city. London 2012 Olympic Games, and in particular the stunning Opening Ceremony directed by Danny Boyle, for which visitors and overseas spectators were invited to transform themselves into a global theatrical audience, can be used as a privileged viewpoint from which to analyse the different ways of perceiving, but also being looked at and performing oneself, in and through spaces which tend at modifying, or at interrogating or destabilizing one’s traditional identity.…”
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Competitive activity of highly skilled freestyle wrestlers at the present stage by V.F. Boyko, I.I. Malinsky, V.A. Andriitsev, V.V. Yaremenko

“…Material: the analysis involved 80 bouts performed by high skilled wrestlers at 2011 World Wrestling Championships (Ankara, Turkey) and 2012 Olympic Games in London (weight categories 84 and 96 kg). …”
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Bioethics and the risk regulation of ‘frontier research’: the case of gene therapy by Lezaun, J

“…These issues are introduced and discussed through a fascinating and diverse set of topics, including myxomatosis, the 2012 Olympic Games, gene therapy and the recent financial crisis. …”

Branding Stratford: Social Representation and the Re-making of Place

“…Part of the vast process of the urban regeneration of East London prompted by London 2012 Olympic Games, Westfield is a massive complex of luxury shops, restaurants, bars and five star hotels. …”
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Planning mega-event legacies: uncomfortable knowledge for host cities by Stewart, A, Rayner, S

“…This research draws on interviews from people involved in six different mega-events and illustrates the challenges of addressing legacy with a variety of examples, including a detailed look at the London 2012 Olympic Games’ legacy negotiations regarding the use of the Olympic Stadium to gain insight into how legacy opportunities are developed. …”

Planning mega-event legacies: uncomfortable knowledge for host cities by Stewart, A, Rayner, S

“…This research draws on interviews from people involved in six different mega-events and illustrates the challenges of addressing legacy with a variety of examples, including a detailed look at the London 2012 Olympic Games’ legacy negotiations regarding the use of the Olympic Stadium to gain insight into how legacy opportunities are developed. …”

Healthcare planning for the Olympics in London: a qualitative evaluation. by Georgia Black, Kostas Kononovas, Jayne Taylor, Rosalind Raine

“…We therefore evaluated the strategic health planning programme for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games to identify generalisable information for future Games. …”
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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF WOMEN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS IN BRAZIL IN THE 2004-2016 OLYMPIC CYCLES by Caroline Inácio Molinari, Vitor Ricci Costa, Kamau Osei Fregonesi Ferreira Monteiro, Myrian Nunomura

“…The 2005-2008 Olympic cycle was more successful, as a consequence of the long-term planning. In the 2009-2012 Olympic cycle, the Brazilian WAG went through a period of turbulence, the training was no longer centralized, and the head coach of the Brazilian team returned to his home country. …”
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Ken Livingstone : The Thorn in (New) Labour’s Side by Timothy Whitton

“…Despite this move, Livingstone continued to defend the GLA’s right to develop policies in keeping with the decentralisation of power even if signs of greater cooperation with central government were obvious, especially when London was given the 2012 Olympic Games in July 2005. This new stance did not prevent him from losing the 2008 election when the Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson, became mayor of London. …”
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THE OBSERVATION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN HANDBALL [La observación de diferencias de género en balonmano] by Miguel Pic Aguilar

“…Two women's and two men's handball matches were selected, belonging to the final phases of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The observational design was nomothetic, punctual and multidimensional. …”
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THE OBSERVATION OF GENDER DIFFERENCES IN HANDBALL [La observación de diferencias de género en balonmano] by Miguel Pic Aguilar

“…Two women's and two men's handball matches were selected, belonging to the final phases of the London 2012 Olympic Games. The observational design was nomothetic, punctual and multidimensional. …”
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Building an artifact : an Olympic archery venue for Williamsburg, NYC by Braddock, William Jonathan, 1977-

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A health and social legacy for East London: Narratives of 'problem' and 'solution' around London 2012 by Thompson, C, Lewis, D, Greenhalgh, P, Taylor, S, Cummins, S

“…The bid for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was successful partly due to its promise to deliver a lasting health and social legacy by using the Games as a driver of regeneration in East London. …”

Active design of built environments for increasing levels of physical activity in adults: the ENABLE London natural experiment study by Christopher G Owen, Elizabeth S Limb, Claire M Nightingale, Alicja R Rudnicka, Bina Ram, Aparna Shankar, Steven Cummins, Daniel Lewis, Christelle Clary, Ashley R Cooper, Angie S Page, Duncan Procter, Anne Ellaway, Billie Giles-Corti, Peter H Whincup, Derek G Cook

“…Objectives: The effect of moving into East Village (the former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games Athletes’ Village, repurposed on active design principles) on the levels of physical activity and adiposity, as well as other health-related and well-being outcomes among adults, was examined. …”
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The Olympic Regeneration in East London (ORiEL) study: protocol for a prospective controlled quasi-experiment to evaluate the impact of urban regeneration on young people and their... by Smith, N, Clark, C, Fahy, A, Tharmaratnam, V, Lewis, D, Thompson, C, Renton, A, Moore, D, Bhui, K, Taylor, S, Eldridge, S, Petticrew, M, Greenhalgh, P, Stansfeld, S, Cummins, S

“…The development of the Olympic Park in Stratford for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games provides the opportunity to take advantage of a natural experiment to examine the impact of large-scale urban regeneration on the health and well-being of young people and their families. …”