Autonomic nervous system responses to strength training in top‐level weight lifters by Ferdinando Iellamo, Daniela Lucini, Maurizio Volterrani, Maurizio Casasco, Annamaria Salvati, Antonio Gianfelici, Alessia Di Gianfrancesco, Antonio Urso, Vincenzo Manzi

“…We assessed the changes in cardiac ANS parameters during long‐term training in weight lifters of the Italian team preparing for the European Championship, where athletes competed for obtaining the pass for Olympic Games. We investigated nine athletes. Subject trained 3 sessions/day, 6 days a week. …”
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Verbal and semantic tools of excursion discourse (lexical level) In linguistic and rhetorical paradigm by Malyutina Svetlana A., Vorozhbitova Alexandra А.

“…Taking into account the criterion of frequency of use, the article contains lexems-representants of three cataconcepts specifying it: «resort», «uniqueness», «Olympic Games» Sochi-2014». Toponymic names (oikonims, hydronims, oronims, urbanonyms, godonyms, dromonyms, etc.) are separately identified. …”
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Biochemical indicators of sports achievements in highly qualified wrestlers by S. P. Alpatov, I. V. Konovalov, G. O. Dibirova, E. V. Kalinina, S. E. Mileshina, M. D. Tsitsuashvili, I. A. Zhirova, A. G. Kochetov, S. A. Parastaev

“…The first one — SHA group (super­high achievements) which included athletes (n = 19) who had victories and prizes at the largest international competitions (European, World, Olympic Games), and the second group — MNT group (members of the national team) which included athletes that did not have similar achievements (n = 59). …”
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Insect Diversity in the Coastal Pinewood and Marsh at Schinias, Marathon, Greece: Impact of Management Decisions on a Degraded Biotope by Panos V. Petrakis, Panagiotis P. Koulelis, Alexandra D. Solomou, Kostas Spanos, Ioannis Spanos, Alan Feest

“…The last anthropogenic impact was recently intensified because of the Olympic Games in the area. One hundred and forty insect species were found that had abundances greater than two individuals in each sampling session in all plots. …”
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Imaging-detected bone stress injuries at the Tokyo 2020 summer Olympics: epidemiology, injury onset, and competition withdrawal rate by Takuya Adachi, Hiroki Katagiri, Jae-Sung An, Lars Engebretsen, Ukihide Tateishi, Yukihisa Saida, Hideyuki Koga, Kazuyoshi Yagishita, Kentaro Onishi, Bruce B. Forster

“…The aim of this study is to investigate the epidemiology, athlete injury history, and competition withdrawal rate of imaging-detected bone stress injuries during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Methods We collected and analysed imaging and clinical information in athletes with bone stress injuries diagnosed in the Olympic Village polyclinic during the Games. …”
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Carbonaceous species in PM_2.5 at a pair of rural/urban sites in Beijing, 2005–2008 by J. Tan, Y. Ma, J. R. Brook, K. He, W. Zhang, F. Duan, L. Huang, F. Yang, Q. Zhao, Y. Cheng

“…This reduction in the urban-difference, coupled with more positive stable carbon isotope values of EC at the urban site in that summer relative to the preceding summers, supports that the special clean air campaign for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games very likely had noticeable impact on the ambient concentrations of carbonaceous aerosols in the Beijing area, particularly on the local urban scale. …”
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Lower back pain in young climbers: a retrospective cross-sectional study by Attilio Carraro, Barbara Gilic, Riccardo Bertolo, Andrea Albergoni, Fabio Sarto, Roberto Roklicer, Diego Sarto

“…ObjectiveThe popularity of sport climbing has been growing since its inclusion in the Olympic Games program, which led to more people practicing it on recreational, amateur, and professional levels. …”
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1968 en América Latina: aparición de nuevos actores by Alvar De la Llosa

“…The choice of Mexico for the Olympic Games and the Pope's visit to Colombia are certainly evidence that Latin America was now integrated to the modern world. …”
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Evaluating the Typical Day-to-Day Variability of WHOOP-Derived Heart Rate Variability in Olympic Water Polo Athletes by Clint R. Bellenger, Dean Miller, Shona L. Halson, Gregory D. Roach, Michael Maclennan, Charli Sargent

“…Eleven elite male water polo players (age 28.8 ± 5.3 years [mean ± standard deviation]; height 190.3 ± 3.8 cm; body mass 95.0 ± 6.9 kg; international matches 117.9 ± 92.1) collected their HR and HRV daily via a WHOOP strap (WHOOP 3.0, CB Rank, Boston, MA, USA) over 16 weeks ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games. The WHOOP strap quantified HR and HRV via wrist-based photoplethysmography during overnight sleep periods. …”
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From zero to hero: the spatio-temporal patterns and migration influence mechanism of world-class athletes in China by Jinlong Shi, Gang Li, Shuyan Xue, Qifan Nie

“…In this study, WCA refers to “world-class athletes,” indicating a group of talents who won medals in international sports events such as the Olympic Games during 2009–2019. In this regard, this study uses statistical and spatial analysis methods to reveal the spatial and temporal characteristics, evolutionary process, and migration mechanism of Chinese WCA. …”
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Sports Elite Means Vaccine Elite? Concerns and Beliefs Related to COVID-19 Vaccines among Olympians and Elite Athletes by Tomasz Sobierajski, Jarosław Krzywański, Tomasz Mikulski, Andrzej Pokrywka, Hubert Krysztofiak, Ernest Kuchar

“…(1) Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the concerns and beliefs of Olympians and elite athletes toward COVID-19 vaccination. (2) Methods: The study was framed by a quantitative method and was conducted using the PAPI (<i>pen and paper interview</i>) technique among 895 Polish elite athletes representing 34 sports. (3) Results: Three-quarters (76.3%) of the athletes were vaccinated against COVID-19; statistically participants were more likely to be women, and athletes who participated in the Olympic Games. Four in ten (39.2%) were in favor of vaccination. …”
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Sports Obstetrics: Implications of Pregnancy in Elite Sportswomen, a Narrative Review by Ariadne L’Heveder, Maxine Chan, Anita Mitra, Lorraine Kasaven, Srdjan Saso, Tomas Prior, Noel Pollock, Michael Dooley, Karen Joash, Benjamin P. Jones

“…Increasing numbers of females are participating in elite sports, with a record number having competed at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Importantly, the ages of peak performance and fertility are very likely to coincide; as such, it is inevitable that pregnancy will occur during training and competition. …”
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PLANNING FOR LEGACY – A COST EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE APPROACH. CASE STUDY: DUBAI EXPO 2020 by B. Taha, A. Allan

“…The planning and development of a site for hosting a mega event such as world exhibitions, summer and winter Olympic Games and World Cup, that attracts numerous numbers of visitors and global attention, is a challenging mission and requires a massive and resource intensive effort of coordination and cooperation between different authorities to ensure the timely delivery of the required facilities and infrastructure, on budget and without unanticipated cost overruns. …”
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Performance Development From Youth to Senior and Age of Peak Performance in Olympic Weightlifting by Marianne Huebner, Aris Perperoglou

“…A total of 3,782 performance results for male and female weightlifters, ages 14–30 from 123 countries, from Youth, Junior, and Senior World Championships and Olympic Games 2013–2017 were used to estimate the age at peak performance in Olympic weightlifting and quantify performance development from adolescence to adulthood. …”
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Modern Athens: Migration Processes and Paradigms of Urban Development by Y. D. Kvashnin

“…A serious incentive for the implementation of infrastructure projects – partially funded by EU structural funds  – was the holding of the 2004 Olympic Games. In 2014, against the backdrop of a debt crisis and economic recession, the city administration adopted Athens Resilience Strategy for 2030, which takes into account such chronic problems as infrastructure degradation, irregular migration, as well as poor management at the regional and prefectural levels. …”
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Identification of a effective cooperation model in the game positioning in a volleyball game by Leszek Mazur

“…The research is aimed at observation USA team playing volleyball during The Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016.</p><p><strong> Findings: </strong>There is a cooperation model in receiving and passing the ball among USA volleyball team players found, based on the observation. …”
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To tape or not to tape: annular ligament (pulley) injuries in rock climbers—a systematic review by Robin Larsson, Lena Nordeman, Christina Blomdahl

“…With its inclusion in the Olympic Games this will likely continue. Injuries from rock climbing are also increasing. …”
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The Detecting of Irrigated Croplands Changes in 1987&#x2013;2015 in Zhangjiakou by Zijuan Zhu, Zengxiang Zhang, Lijun Zuo, Feifei Sun, Tianshi Pan, Jun Li, Xiaoli Zhao, Xiao Wang

“…Zhangjiakou, which is the water conservation area of Jing-jin-ji agglomeration and the host city for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, has large irrigated croplands and a fragile ecological environment. …”
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Measurements of gaseous H₂SO₄ by AP-ID-CIMS during CAREBeijing 2008 Campaign by X. Huang, M. Shao, L. He, B. Bohn, X. Li, Z. Wang, S. Guo, D. Yue, R. Zhang, J. Zheng, M. Hu, A. Wiedensohler, T. Zhu

“…The frequency of the peak H₂SO₄ concentration exceeding 5 &times; 10⁶ molecules cm⁻³ increases by 16 % during the period of the summer Olympic Games (8–24 August 2008), because of the implementation of air quality control regulations. …”
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Carl Diem's "Organisation plan for Physical Education in Bulgaria" 1937 = “Plan de organización de la educación física en Bulgaria” de Carl Diem, 1937 by Jörg Schenk

“…Carl Diem, internationally known and respected at least since the 1936 Olympic Games, stayed in the country in the fall of 1937 and drafted the requested plan, which contained a concept for the future organisation of national sports, the construction of sports facilities and the training of "gymnastics teachers" on more than 60 pages, including annexes and an analysis of the current situation. …”
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