Protecting Major Sporting Events with Particular Reference to the 2012 London Olympic Games by Tarik Sabry

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“Everyone was looking at you smiling”: East London residents' experiences of the 2012 Olympics and its legacy on the social determinants of health by Thompson, C, Lewis, DJ, Greenhalgh, T, Smith, NR, Fahy, AE, Cummins, S

“…This qualitative study explored how hosting of the London 2012 Games impacted upon the way East London residents perceived and experienced the social determinants of health in their local neighbourhood. …”

Can the London 2012 Olympics 'inspire a generation' to do more physical or sporting activities? An overview of systematic reviews. by Mahtani, K, Protheroe, J, Slight, S, Demarzo, M, Blakeman, T, Barton, C, Brijnath, B, Roberts, N

BREEAM and the Code for Sustainable Homes on the London 2012 olympic park : lessons from the Velodrome, Aquatics Centre and the Olympic and Paralympic Village / by Paterson, Neil, Robinson, Adam, Brylewski, Robin

Changing mega-events’ spatial strategies and cultural policy: scaling down, spacing out, and assembling organizations in the cases of London and Milan by Zachary M. Jones, Stefano Di Vita, Davide Ponzini

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The effects of the London 2012 Olympics and related urban regeneration on physical and mental health: the ORiEL mixed-methods evaluation of a natural experiment by Cummins, S, Clark, C, Lewis, D, Smith, N, Thompson, C, Smuk, M, Stansfeld, S, Taylor, S, Fahy, A, Greenhalgh, T, Eldridge, S

“…We found limited evidence that the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games had a positive effect on adolescent or parental physical activity, mental health or well-being.…”

Understanding sports fans' motivations by text mining #ChongWeiOurHero by Goh, Sherwin Si Win

“…These categories are similar to those found in the study by Kee et al. (2016) which studied the motivations of Lee’s supporters in a similar setting at the 2012 Olympics, but through traditional content analysis methods. …”
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Soft Power and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar: Learning from Experiences of Past Mega-Sporting Event Hosts by Mehran Haghirian, Paulino Robles-Gil

“…The cases include China (Beijing 2008 Olympics), South Africa (2010 World Cup), United Kingdom (London 2012 Olympics), Brazil (2014 World Cup and Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympics), Russia (Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, and 2018 World Cup), and Japan (Tokyo 2020 Olympics). …”
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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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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 by Antonio Desiderio

“…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. …”

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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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. …”

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. …”

Sports Information Needs in Chinese Online Q&A Community: Topic Mining Based on BERT by Chuanlin Ning, Jian Xu, Hao Gao, Xi Yang, Tianyi Wang

“…We found that the overall trend of sports information needs in Zhihu can be divided into three cycles: the London 2012 Olympic period, the Rio 2016 Olympic period, and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic period in general. …”
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