🏅 We are delighted to be launching our Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2024 report. We are starting off with five excellent articles by our experts, with more to come in the following weeks. So keep an eye out! All can be found at https://t.co/Xr9LIiErfm #Olympics2024
"Many scholars and activists remain unconvinced by the IOC’s environmental claims and have questioned whether the organization is really 'greenwashing gold'." write @Billiewhiz & @hollythorpe_nz in https://t.co/2VSO3NcBfc
"The Olympic Games [...] is a sport sustainability world’s fair [...] it influences others to follow suit, whether that is other sporting events, leagues and federations or spectators from around the world." writes @mcculloughbrian in https://t.co/2VSO3NcBfc
"Considering the Olympics’ “political neutral” spaces, such political contestations could not reach the Olympic spaces during the event given that the host city is obliged to design out some political acts [...]." write @jaludvigsen & @DrAdamTalbot in https://t.co/2VSO3NcBfc
"The Olympic Games, with their global audience and extensive coverage of women's sports, present an ideal platform to challenge the menstrual taboo." writes @JakubowskaH in https://t.co/2VSO3Nc3pE.
"Until recently, many female athletes have had to choose between sport participation and starting a family [...] there are a growing number of Olympian athlete-mothers who have been [...] changing the narrative." write @jennaschulz_1 & @JaneSThornton in https://t.co/2VSO3Nc3pE
"Our interest lies in what this controversy reveals about the state of conservative politics in the United States and its relationship to sports [...] how this alliance was enabled inadvertently we believe [...]." write @BurntO_Butterwo & @hartm021 in https://t.co/2VSO3NcBfc
Coming up at 1:30 PM (Australian Eastern Time)--"Sports and Sporting Events as Sites of Identity, Discourse, and Protest" in the Gold Coast Convention Center, Upper Level, Room 5. See you there!
Congratulations once again to Sport Communication Legacy Award winner, Dr. Toni Bruce, of the University of Auckland! @daniellecoombs presented the award at #ICA24.