The Current Scenario of Curvilinear Architecture in Malaysia by Faridah Aduan, Johan Victor Torrance, Rodzyah Mohd Yunus

“…The Bilbao Effect incorporates itself into numerous iconic buildings and grand design s of international architects such as Frank Gehry, Santiago Calatrava, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Phillip Cox and Toyo Ito who exploit curvilinear forms as their architectural language .Throughout the world, major events such as the Olympic Games have catalysed the implementation of curvilinear architecture while in Malaysia, the development of Putrajaya has provided opportunity for iconic forms, expressed in curvilinearity. …”
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The spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors of hotel industry in the metropolitan area: An empirical study based on China. by Lei Li, Lin Lu, Yuchen Xu, Xiaolong Sun

“…Meanwhile, major historical events, such as the Olympic Games had a significant influence on the development of the hotel industry. b. …”
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Successful Pacing Profiles of Olympic Men and Women 3,000 m Steeplechasers by Brian Hanley, Emily L. Williams

“…Finishing and section splits were collected for 77 men and 84 women competing at the 2008 and 2016 Olympic Games. Competitors were divided into groups based on finishing position (in both rounds analyzed). …”
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Hearing and sports: a bidirectional interaction. [Audición y Control motor: Una relación recíproca]. by Johannes Vogel

“…For instance, runners closer to the starter's pistol at Olympic Games react sooner than runners farther away (Brown, Kenwell, Maraj and Collins, 2008). …”
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Shooting History: An interview with Swiss artist Christoph Draeger about the re-enactment of terrorism in his video installation Black September (2002) by Sebastian Baden

“…The video installation Black September consists of appropriated footage from a documentary movie and video sequences from a re-enactment of the historical events of September 5th 1972, the terrorist attack during the 20th Olympic Games in Munich. Even the artist himself gets involved in the play in his mimikry of a hostage-taker and terrorist. …”
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Hypoxia & Hyperoxia by Millet GP, Girard O, Beard A, Brocherie F

“…The year 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of the Mexico Olympic games, which represents the starting point of scientific research on hypoxic training. …”
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A tale of two scandals: scale shift and the inefficacy of crisis communication management in Olympic scandals by Henk Erik Meier, Samuel Tickell, Mara Verena Konjer

“…IntroductionMega sporting events, such as the Olympic Games, provide niche sports with unique opportunities to attract public attention. …”
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“It is about discomfort and helplessness” – The hegemonic sports culture informed by the male gaze affecting karateka women’s embodied subjectivities by Fabiana Cristina Turelli, Alexandre Fernandez Vaz, David Kirk

“…We carried out a study with the Spanish women's karate squad in preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games, aiming to analyze how the hegemonic sports culture affects karateka women's embodied subjectivities through the diktats of the male gaze. …”
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Microcycle of sports psychodiagnosis and mental training in high-performance athletes from Ecuador /Microciclo de psicodiagnóstico deportivo y entrenamiento mental en atletas de al... by Leonardo Eliecer Tarqui Silva

“…The sample was made up of three female athletes; two pistol shooting ages between 30, and classified to the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games. The Karate athlete belonged to the group of "Young Promises", with an age of 15 and South American Champion. …”
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MODELING THE INFLUENCE OF BASKETBALL GAME PARAMETERS ON THE FINAL RESULT IN TOKYO 2020 by Slobodan Simović, Jasmin Komić, Zoran Pajić, Nenad Rađević, Bojan Guzina, Goran Grahovac

“…The study sample comprises matches played at the men’s basketball tournament at the XXXII Olympic Games in Tokyo. Four regression models were formed. …”
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Development of a Distributed Modeling Framework to Estimate Thermal Comfort along 2020 Tokyo Olympic Marathon Course by Satoshi Hirabayashi, Tsutomu Abe, Fumiko Imamura, Chie Morioka

“…Heat stress is an issue for marathon races in the summer, such as the one planned for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic games. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is planning to grow existing street trees’ canopies to enlarge their shade to reduce air temperature and solar radiation. …”
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Individual performances relative to season bests in major track running championship races are distance-, position- and sex-dependent by Arturo Casado, Andrew Renfree, Beatriz Maroto-Sánchez, Brian Hanley

“…Material and methods. 2320 men’s and 2312 women’s finishing times over 100 m, 400 m, 800 m, 1500 m and 5000 m at the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships and Olympic Games from 1999 to 2019, and their SBprior, were obtained via IAAF open-access website. …”
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An Exploration on Process of Change in Men’s Parallel Bar Skills by Tae-seok Yang

“…Methods This study targeted on 48 finalists in parallel bar from 5 Olympic Games from 2000 to 2016 and 2019 World Championship over the last 20 years and explored the process of change in difficulty elements, each element group, and salto and arm hang. …”
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EVALUATING THE REPRESENTATION OF THE DIFFERENT WORLD STATES ON INTERNATIONAL FOIL MEN CONTESTS, BASED ON OBJECTIVE CRITERIONS by Krassimir Petkov, Valentine Panayotov

“…Using the first two of the indexes we found that the most successful state in almost all competitions /with one exception – the Olympic games/ is Italy. The MI results are not so undisputable – there are lagging (on the whole) countries which penetrated to the medals in almost every kind of foil men tournament. …”
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International Cooperation Between Thailand and Democratic Kampuchea by Denis Kupriyanov

“…Democratic Kampuchea also took the initiative and went for rapprochement, and this was especially evident at the eighth Asian Olympic Games, when Kampuchea took part in them only for the sake of Thailand. …”
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An interdisciplinary framework to optimize the anticipation skills of high-level athletes using virtual reality by Gilles Montagne, Nicolas Mascret, Martin Bossard, Loïc Chomienne, Simon Ledouit, Guillaume Rao, Nicolas Tordi, Eulalie Verhulst, Richard Kulpa

“…This framework, currently being implemented as part of a project to prepare athletes for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, based on the ecological-dynamics approach to expertise, is innovative in its interdisciplinary nature, but also and above all because it overcomes the limitations of more traditional training methods in the field designed to optimize anticipation skills in top-level athletes. …”
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Olympic Education in France: A Legacy Issue or the Promotion of a Model in Crisis? by Michaël Attali, François Le Yondre

“…Both the promoters of Olympism and the organisers of the Olympic Games regularly employ the term legacy. In this context, the use of education as a tool constitutes an important stake. …”
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PREDICTORICAL VALUES OF BASIC – MOTORICAL ABILITIES AND RELATIONS OF MOTORICAL INFORMATIONS IN VOLLEYBALL AT 15 YEAR OLD PUPILS by Bećir Šabotić

“…The most popular of them are included into the program of the Olympic Games, where volleyball takes very important place because of its wide use. …”
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Olympism and the values of sport: De Coubertin and the Thailand Olympic Academy. by Suriyan Somphong

“…The term “Olympic education”, according to Muller (2000), has not been used until 1970s and it is very doubtful at the beginning amongst researchers that the aim of this subject is to really look at the educational ideals of the ancient Greece or is it merely a marketing campaign of the Olympic Games. For Coubertin himself, “Sporting education” rather than “Olympic education” is to be championed and is in fact the title of his book published in 1922, “Pedagogies sportive” (Muller, 2000). …”
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From Ephemeral Planning to Permanent Urbanism: An Urban Planning Theory of Mega-Events by Eva Kassens-Noor

“…Mega-events like the Olympic Games are powerful forces that shape cities. …”
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