EDITORIAL by Ivan Čuk

“…Istvan Bercy from Hungary (he was judge at 8 Olympic Games) and Jože Senica from Slovenia (he was judge at Barcelona OG, and coached Miroslav Cerar few years) went among the stars. …”
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Parametric Evaluation of Cooling Pipe in Direct Evaporation Artificial Ice Rink by Zhenying Zhang, Shiqi Wang, Meiyuan Yang, Kai Gong, Yanhua Chen

“…With the coming of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, China’s artificial ice rink construction will be in rapid development. …”
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Predicting Olympic Medal Trends for Southeast Asian Countries Using the Facebook Prophet Model by Bagus Al Qohar, Yulizchia Malica Pinkan Tanga, Putri Utami, Maylinna Rahayu Ningsih, Much Aziz Muslim

“…The evaluation results show that this prediction model can provide a good value in predicting the total medals earned. On the Olympic Games (1994-2024) dataset, the model has a very low error MAE, MSE, and RMSE and has an R2 score of 0.99, which is close to perfect. …”
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Overuse of Short-Acting Beta-2 Agonists (SABAs) in Elite Athletes: Hypotheses to Explain It by Nicolas Vertadier, Wojciech Trzepizur, Sébastien Faure

“…Recently, studies based on the results of the Olympic Games revealed that athletes with confirmed asthma/airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) or exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) outperformed their non-asthmatic rivals. …”
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The Detection of Green Tide Biomass by Remote Sensing Images and In Situ Measurement in the Yellow Sea of China by Wei Tian, Juan Wang, Fengli Zhang, Xudong Liu, Jian Yang, Junna Yuan, Xiaofei Mi, Yun Shao

“…The world’s largest macroalgae bloom (also known as green tide) has been reported since the 29th Olympic Games in 2008, which is verified as the fast reproduction of floating green macroalgae (<i>Ulva prolifera</i>). …”
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Ephemeral China/Handmade China by Xing Ruan

“…With the construction boom since the mid-1990s, mainstream Western architectural journals and galleries have been racing to expose new architecture in China; celebrity Western architects have been winning major commissions in China: the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is a case in point. The sheer quantity and speed of China’s development, as evidenced in architecture and urbanisation, causes an ‘unbearable lightness of being’ (to paraphrase Milan Kundera). …”
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ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF SPORTS EVENTS by Anetta MÜLLER, Melinda BÍRÓ, Kinga RÁTHONYI-ÓDOR, Gergely RÁTHONYI, Gyula SZÉLES-KOVÁCS, Eszter BODA, Maria D. MACRA-OŞORHEAN, Almos ANDRAS

“…Mainly for hosting mayor international sports events like the Olympic Games or the World Championships and continental competitions (e.g. …”
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Deconstruct, Don’t Demolish: An Overview of Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and London in 2012 as Olympic Host Cities by Neha Korde, Amit Kumar Jaglan

“…On this line, the goal of this research is to revisit the Olympic Games hosting cities, mainly London and Rio de Janeiro, and examine the possibility of the demolition of built infrastructure in the Olympics and to provide methods for minimizing its effects on the urban environment. …”
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Determining the index of injuries requiring specialist treatment during boulder climbing on an artificial climbing wall by Grzegorz Zieliński, Estera Zięba, Michał Ginszt

“…Introduction: Climbing was accepted as the official discipline at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. It is a sport that is becoming one of the most popular from extreme sports. …”
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Acceptance of international criminal justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina by G. Šimić

“…When the XIV Winter Olympic Games took place in Sarajevo in 1984, nobody expected that war would begin only seven years later and kill hundreds of thousands of people living in the former Yugoslavia. …”
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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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Emancipating the Image: The Beijing Olympics, Regeneration, and the Power of Performance

“…Twenty or so years after De Certeau wandered the streets of New York and pondered its pictorial power, such a perspective can be applied to Olympic and Post Olympic Beijing. The Olympic Games gave the world an opportunity to read Beijing’s powerful image-text following thirty years of rapid transformation. …”
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The Peace Games: European press and diplomatic relations between North and South Korea during the 2018 Winter Olympics by Juan Antonio Simón Sanjurjo, Laura Gostian, Eva Asensio Castañeda

“…The main results showed how the media perpetuated attitudes and ideas around cultural identity and diplomatic relations in sports and the Olympic Games. There was a clear increase in the number of news articles related to the research topic in the weeks prior to the Games (especially in the Spanish press), while during the month following the sporting event, there was a clear reduction in the number of news coverage.…”
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Planning and Architecture in Greece in the Neoliberal Era

“…The capital of Greece welcomed the mixed blessing of the Summer Olympic Games of 2004, was faced with major riots during December 2008 and became the focal point of the country’s financial crisis; this latter event, igniting extensive protests and demonstrations culminating in the “indignants” movement in the summer of 2011. …”
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Psychological Demands of International Rugby Sevens and Well-Being Needs of Elite South African Players by Ninette Kruyt, Heinrich Grobbelaar

“…Rugby sevens was included in the 2016 Olympic Games, with South Africa’s Blitzboks winning bronze. …”
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The Mediterranean Games and the creation of the International Committee of the Mediterranean Games (ICMG), solutions to the rivalries of the Mediterranean sports world? (1947-1961) by Zineb Belmaati Cherkaoui, Pascal Charitas

“…Thus, in 1947, the Egyptian Olympic member Mohamed Taher Pasha proposed the project of Mediterranean Games (MG) causing fear of competition at the Olympic Games. Indeed, by 1951, the Regional Games were exploding (Erraïs Fatès 1989) and the following year, the IOC, newly chaired by the American Avery Brundage, regulated and controlled the Regional Games through Olympic sponsorship (Guttmann 2002). …”
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SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF CROATIAN ELITE ATHLETES by BABIĆ Vesna, BJELIĆ G., BOSNAR K.

“…The sample encompassed 301 athletes (154 F and 147 M), medal winners in top competitions: the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, World Cups and European Cups, and the Mediterranean Games from 1992 to 2012. …”
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Enriching the legacy of Athens' 2004 Olympic Village : the role of information technology infrastructure by Biziouras, Sotiris A. (Sotiris Agis), 1972-

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The Olympics as a social opportunity : Integrated social housing in Rio de Janeiro by Kaertner, Anna (Anna M.)

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Transport legacy of mega-events and the redistribution of accessibility to urban destinations by Pereira, R

“…It analyses the transformation in the transport system of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in preparation for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. That transformation involved substantial expansion in public transport infrastructure, followed by cuts in service levels and a reorganization of many bus lines to streamline the transport system. …”