Investing in an Olympic agenda: from Rio to Tokyo and beyond by Eduardo Russo, Ariane Roder Figueira, Leonardo Jose Mataruna-Dos-Santos

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Tourism as a Soft Power Tool. The Role of Public Diplomacy in Japan’s Country and Destination Branding by María-Francisca Casado Claro, Josep Pastrana Huguet, María Concepción Saavedra Serrano

“…Japan has furthered its economic, social, and political goals by projecting the image of a technologically advanced country boasting a rich cultural tradition through skillful management of its soft power and its public diplomacy, that in recent times has revolved around cultural diplomacy with the “Cool Japan” strategy for the promotion of cultural industries, as well as around sports diplomacy, with the celebration of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which owing to the COVID pandemic became an example of failed destination branding, that nevertheless did not obscure their success in terms of sports diplomacy.…”
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Ethical dilemmas and validity issues related to the use of new cooling technologies and early recognition of exertional heat illness in sport by Douglas J Casa, Yuri Hosokawa, Kumpei Tanisawa, Borja Muniz-Pardos, Yannis P Pitsiladis, Fumihiro Yamasawa, Konstantinos Angeloudis, Fergus M Guppy, Garrett I Ash, Andrew J Grundstein

“…The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games is expected to be among the hottest Games in modern history, increasing the chances for exertional heat stroke (EHS) incidence, especially in non-acclimatised athletes/workers/spectators. …”
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Global warming and the Summer Olympic and Paralympic games: a perspective from the Tokyo 2020 Games by Lisa Yamasaki, Shuhei Nomura

“…The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games provided a significant opportunity to consider global warming as an issue to be seriously addressed to run the safe and fair games in the era of climate change. …”
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BALLET MOVEMENTS IN RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS ROUTINES: AN ANALISYS FROM THE LAST TWO CODE OF POINTS (2013-2016 and 2017-2020) by Lorena Nabanete dos Reis Furtado, Eliana de Toledo, Kizzy Fernandes Antualpa, Michele Viviene Carbinatto

“…Thus, the purpose of this research was to analyze the Ballet movements in RG routines in the 2013-2016 and 2017-2020 Olympic cycles, in order to further understand the relationship between RG and Ballet and compare them in two different RG Code of Points.  …”
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Population-Level Immunity for Transient Suppression of COVID-19 Waves in Japan from April 2021 to September 2022 by Sachiko Kodera, Haruto Ueta, Tatsuo Unemi, Taisuke Nakata, Akimasa Hirata

“…Using interpolation based on machine learning, we estimated the impact of behavioral factors and vaccination on the fifth wave of new positive cases that occurred during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Our computational results highlighted the critical role of population-level immunity, such as vaccination, in infection suppression. …”
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Performance Analysis in Elite Basketball Differentiating Game Outcome And Gender by Marcos Bezerra de Almeida, Sarah Cristina Canuto, Gisele Santos Lima, William Golçalves Oliveira

“…Unfortunately, most investigations refer exclusively to the analysis of men's competitions. In this sense, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games created a unique opportunity to make gender performance comparison feasible, since it provided same period and environmental conditions for both genders. …”
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Performance Analysis in Elite Basketball Differentiating Game Outcome And Gender by Marcos Bezerra de Almeida, Sarah Cristina Canuto, Gisele Santos Lima, William Golçalves Oliveira

“…Unfortunately, most investigations refer exclusively to the analysis of men's competitions. In this sense, Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games created a unique opportunity to make gender performance comparison feasible, since it provided same period and environmental conditions for both genders. …”
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Environmental Sustainability of Olympic Games: A Narrative Review of Events, Initiatives, Impact and Hidden Aspects by Maria Konstantaki

“…An overview of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games environmental agenda will be presented. …”
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Variables and instruments for assessing mental health in competitive swimmers: A narrative review [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Alfonso Trinidad

“…Background Mental health issues are becoming increasingly prevalent among elite athletes, and during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, this issue became a pressing concern. …”
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Variables e instrumentos para evaluar la salud mental en nadadores de competición: una revisión narrativa [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] by Alfonso Trinidad

“…Background Mental health issues are becoming increasingly prevalent among elite athletes, and during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, this issue became a pressing concern. …”
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The Changing Image of Islam in Japan: The Role of Civil Society in Disseminating better Information about Islam by Irma Rachmi Yulita, Susy Ong

“…In preparation for the coming 2020 Olympic Games, the government, the local NGO, and even individual are taking initiatives to create a Muslim-friendly atmosphere. …”
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Media portrayal of mental health at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games by Jennifer Keal, Thomas McCabe, Jade Wright, Patrick Renshaw

“…We selected articles relevant to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games and including mental health as a subject. …”
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Anthropometric Profile and Physical Fitness Performance Comparison by Game Position in the Chile Women’s Senior National Football Team by Rodrigo Villaseca-Vicuña, Edgardo Molina-Sotomayor, Santiago Zabaloy, Jose Antonio Gonzalez-Jurado

“…Fifty football players participated in this study, which was carried out during the period of training for the France 2019 Women’s World Cup and the Japan 2020 Olympic Games. Body composition and physical condition (muscular strength, sprint, agility, and aerobic fitness) were assessed. …”
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Changes in stride pattern of elite women's 400 metres hurdles from 2019 to 2022: an analysis by performance level by Nerea Casal-García, José Luis López-Del Amo

“…IntroductionThe main objective of this study was to investigate the stride patterns of elite women's 400 m hurdles which have undergone significant evolution in recent years, resulting in a complete change in the stride patterns of the athletes.MethodsTwo hundred and fifty-five individual performances of all participants in the World Championships in Doha 2019 and Oregon 2022, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and the 2022 European Championships were analysed based on video recordings taken during the competition. …”
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Classification of skateboarding tricks by synthesizing transfer learning models and machine learning classifiers using different input signal transformations by Muhammad Amirul, Abdullah

“…Skateboarding has made its Olympic debut at the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Conventionally, in the competition scene, the scoring of the game is done manually and subjectively by the judges through the observation of the trick executions. …”
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Analysis of sailing variables and performance of laser sailors with different rankings under the condition of certain wind speed by Dandan Pan, Kaiyang Sun

“…Methods: Five regatta's data of the 2019–2020 Hempel World Cup Series and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games for a total of 63 races were analyzed in this study. …”
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Lockdown and No Lockdown: How Norwegian and Swedish Elite Athletes Managed Preparations for Tokyo 2020 and Mental Health Challenges in the Shadow of COVID-19 by Carolina Lundqvist, Carolina Lundqvist, Elsa Kristiansen

“…The present study explored Norwegian and Swedish Olympic aspirants' perceived challenges for the preparations of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games (OG) and risk and protective factors for mental health. …”
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Incidence of injury and illness among paediatric Team USA athletes competing in the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games by Jonathan T Finnoff, William M Adams, Travis Anderson, Amber T Donaldson, David M Robinson, Stephanie C Clark, Emily G Larson, Kayle E Noble-Taylor, Eric G Post, Jeffrey S Shilt, Eric L Dugan

“…Objective To describe the incidence of injuries and illnesses among paediatric Team USA athletes competing in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and the 2022 Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games.Methods An electronic medical record system documented all injuries and illnesses that occurred while competing in the four Games periods. …”
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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. The diversified content of information needs included 40 second-level themes and eight first-level themes. …”
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