Contributions of park constructions to residents' demands of ecosystem services consumption: A case study of urban public parks in Beijing. by Sibo Wang, Tingwei Li, Dongdong Li, Hong Cheng

“…The contributions made by constructions of management and maintenance, and transportation around urban public parks have been on the rise and the significant points occurring after the 2008 Olympic Games. Our research proposes a method to determine the relation between the demands of residents' ecosystem services consumption and the contributions of park constructions to these demands, which has significant implications for optimizing the constructions of urban public parks to better meet the demands of ecosystem services consumption.…”
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The process for designing and constructing the Komazawa Olympic Park control tower by Toyokawa Saikaku

“…Regarding the structure of this study, section 2.2 reflects upon the plans for the venues for the 11th and 12th Olympic Games and presents the role that the memorial tower was expected to fulfil. …”
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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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The defensive process of handball: a systematic review by Gustavo de Oliveira Granero, Arthur Peron Faula de Oliveira, Vinicius da Silva Musa, Rafael Pombo Menezes

“…The contexts addressed in the studies investigated show the preference for the analysis of high performance teams in competitions such as World Championships and Olympic Games, especially men and adult teams.…”
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Urban drainage in Barcelona: From hazard to resource? by David Saurí, Laura Palau-Rof

“…The third period, governed by the Olympic Games of 1992 and the rehabilitation of the beach front, entailed a massive reconfiguration of the sewer system now connected to wastewater treatment plants and enhanced with a number of large underground stormwater reservoirs. …”
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Events as a means to foster knowledge-driven urban development: Experience from the new district development in Nanjing by Xin Yi, Fei Zhai

“…Since the end of the last century, Nanjing has been promoting new district development on the city's periphery and has hosted a series of events, including the 10th National Games in 2005 and the 2nd Youth Olympic Games in 2014. In this process, the city government also hopes to explore the potential of the knowledge economy and is committed to providing a new direction for urban development.This work reviews the history of Nanjing's knowledge city development from two different dimensions (land development and knowledge development) and summarises the related achievements and lessons in different periods. …”
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Predicting Table Tennis Tournaments: A comparison of statistical modelling techniques by Jan Lennartz, Andreas Groll, Hendrik van der Wurp

“…Those tournaments are the World Table Tennis Championships, the Table Tennis World Cup, the Olympic Games and the ITTF World Tour. In other areas of sports, it is common to analyse major tournaments and predict future ones (see, e.g., Groll et al., 2018, for football). …”
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ORGANIZATIONAL-METHODICAL PECULIARITIES OF THE BUILDING OF THE TRAINING PROCESS IN ROWING by Vera Veniaminovna Orlova, Olga Evgenevna Halaleeva

“…In the program of the Olympic Games rowing sport took third place by number of sets of medals. …”
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Ethiopian Elite Female Long-Distance Runners’ Some Physical and Physiological Characteristics by Getaye F. GELAW

“…This research included 11 female professional Ethiopian elite distance athletes ranging in age from 21 to 37 years old, who run at Olympic Games, World Champions as well as in the platinum and gold label status road races. …”

Mental toughness and its relationship to the achievement level of the weightlifters in Egypt by Ahmet Aly, Ahmet Elemırı

“…As such, this integration may facilitate the effective transfer of mental skills into competition, which can help Egyptian weightlifters to achieve better results in great competitions (e.g., Olympic Games).…”
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Contemporary Public Leadership In China: A Research Review and Consideration by Pittinsky, Todd L., Zhu, Cheng

“…As China seeks to raise its international prestige by hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, social factors have also captured the world’s attention: China’s status as the most populous country in the world, and its domestic and international crises over democratization, legitimization, and corruption. …”
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Legacy, sustainability and Olympism: crafting urban outcomes at London 2012 by Gold, Margaret, Gold, John Robert

“…The staging of the Olympic Games has, since the outset, been intended to produce positive and lasting outcomes, but each age has seen the Olympic movement and their appointed host cities recasting the ways in which they have sought to achieve such outcomes in light of their own values and needs. …”
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The analysis and competition strategy of the uncrowned king of badminton Lee Chong Wei’s key points by Ma, Shuzhen, Soh, Kim Geok, Japar, Salimah Binti, ., Yang, Xu, Yanqi

“…In this research, the skill and tactical performances of Lee Chong Wei in 10 representative matches of the Olympic Games, World Championships and Open in the Quarter, Quarter and Final, respectively, were selected for study. …”
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Broadcasting real time information using mobile and internet technology (badminton tournament live score system) by Sughan Nair, Prabhakaran

“…Badminton is an international sport which is included in international games like Asian Games and Olympic Games. International badminton governing organization is known as Badminton World Federation (BWF). …”
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Management of activities in the opening of sporting events through the techniques of network planning by Sretenka Dugalić

“…Sporting events involve a very large number of participants (excluding the audience, sponsors and members of the media, the Olympic Games often encounter over 10,500 participants). …”
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The World Anti-Doping Code: can you have asthma and still be an elite athlete? by Ken Fitch

“….; Although asthmatic athletes achieved outstanding sporting success during the 1950s and 1960s before any anti-doping rules existed, since introduction of the Code’s policies on some drugs to manage asthma results at the Olympic Games have revealed that athletes with confirmed asthma/airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) have outperformed their non-asthmatic rivals.; It appears that years of intensive endurance training can provoke airway injury, AHR and asthma in athletes without any past history of asthma. …”
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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

“…In particular, the case of cultural offering in Milan between the two mega-events of Expo 2015 and the upcoming 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympic Games shows how host cities can address growing uncertainty through the expanded role of a cultural programme combined with the rescaling of traditional mega-event formats. …”
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MEĐUNARODNA AKTIVNOST ASOCIJACIJE SPORTSKE MEDICINE SRBIJE I CRNE GORE I 10. KONGRES EVROPSKOG KOLEDŽA SPORTSKIH NAUKA by Dikić N., Živanić S., Ostojić S.M., Mazić S., Dabetić M.

“…One of the first medicine associations in history of medicine, Association International Medico-Sportive, has founded by 50 sports medicine doctors from 11 countries during Winter Olympic Games in Sent Moritz at February 1928, which changed the name to FIMS (Fedration Internationale de Medicine du sport). …”
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Automatic image analysis of an archery arrow in free flight using high-speed video cameras by Riku MURAKAMI, Hiroya MAMORI, Takeshi MIYAZAKI, Naoya TAKAHASHI

“…Archery at the Olympic games is a competition that hits a target 70 m away. …”
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Preparation for Endurance Competitions at Altitude: Physiological, Psychological, Dietary and Coaching Aspects. A Narrative Review by Martin Burtscher, Martin Burtscher, Martin Niedermeier, Johannes Burtscher, Dominik Pesta, Dominik Pesta, Jiri Suchy, Barbara Strasser, Barbara Strasser

“…It was the Summer Olympic Games 1968 held in Mexico City (2,300 m) that required scientists and coaches to cope with the expected decline of performance in endurance athletes and to establish optimal preparation programs for competing at altitude. …”
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