Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 400
Olympic Games: No legacy for sports
(Elsevier, 2014)
Countries whose cities host the Summer Olympic Games increase significantly their success during the
competition. We study whether such effect is lasting or not. We compute the effect of hosting on the total
number of ...
Metabolic Approach in Canoeing Olympic Medalist Athletes in Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017-05-01)
Rio Social Changes 2009-2016: Is There a Pre-Olympic Legacy?
(2016-07-01)
The term “Olympic legacy” refers generally to the projection of the gains to be seized by the city after the realization of the event. But can we already assess significant inflections in the historical series of the ...
The photography in Rio 2016 Olympic Games: Social media, memes and engagementA fotografia dos Jogos Olímpicos Rio 2016: Mídias sociais, memes e engajamento
(2017-01-01)
This paper discusses the photographic production related to the public of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, and it also includes a brief debate about the manipulation of official photographs in memes. We propose that social media ...