State strategies for leveraging sports mega-events: unpacking the concept of `legacy`

(Staatliche Strategien zur Ausrichtung von Mega-Sport-Events: Das Legacy-Konzept entblättern)

The spiralling costs of hosting sports mega-events (SMEs) are usually justified by the `legacies` that they produce. Therefore, this article begins by problematising the notion of SME `legacies` and the benefits they are intended to bring to hosts. The article serves as a general introduction to the papers that follow in this Special Issue. Common to all papers is a concern with the multifaceted nature of `legacy`, its meaning to a variety of stakeholders involved in such events and how this impacts policy. The belief in the causal relationship between hosting major events and the realisation of specific legacies - increased sport participation in London`s case, highlighted in this paper - underpinned the United Kingdom`s bidding for, and subsequent hosting of, the Olympics. Thus, this paper serves as a discussion of some of the key concepts in, and assumptions about, the use of SMEs to produce a legacy for the hosting state.
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Schlagworte: Wettkampf international Organisierung Finanzen staatlich Großbritannien Olympische Sommerspiele 2012 Sportpolitik Politik
Notationen: Organisationen und Veranstaltungen Leitung und Organisation
DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2017.1316761
Veröffentlicht in: International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Jahrgang: 9
Heft: 2
Seiten: 203-218
Dokumentenarten: Artikel
Sprache: Englisch
Level: hoch