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  • The Sydney Olympics:Striving for Legacies-Overcoming Short Term Disappointments and Long-Term deficiences

    Author(s)
    Toohey, Kristine
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Toohey, Kristine M.
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    Using a stakeholder perspective the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games are investigated in terms of their economic, social, environmental, knowledge, sporting and political legacies. From a sporting perspective, elite sport in Australia has profited at the expense of sport for all. The sporting infrastructure legacy is improving, but at continued ongoing cost to the New South Wales' taxpayer. Any social impacts that were claimed as a result of the Games appear to have dissipated. However, Australian politicians still believe in a positive Sydney Games legacy.Using a stakeholder perspective the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games are investigated in terms of their economic, social, environmental, knowledge, sporting and political legacies. From a sporting perspective, elite sport in Australia has profited at the expense of sport for all. The sporting infrastructure legacy is improving, but at continued ongoing cost to the New South Wales' taxpayer. Any social impacts that were claimed as a result of the Games appear to have dissipated. However, Australian politicians still believe in a positive Sydney Games legacy.
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    Journal Title
    The International Journal of the History of Sport
    Volume
    24
    Issue
    14
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360802439270
    Subject
    Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
    Sociology
    Historical Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/23152
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