IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/semchp/978-1-4614-8912-2_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Olympic Legacy

In: Bidding for Development

Author

Listed:
  • Ngiste Abebe
  • Mary Trina Bolton
  • Maggie Pavelka
  • Morgan Pierstorff

Abstract

Over the course of the 2-year bid process, cities voluntarily subject themselves to the International Olympic Committee’s supranational standards, regulations, and scrutiny. As the purveyors of the Olympic brand, the IOC has come to recognize its vested interest in the impacts of the world’s principal mega-event, or the Olympic Legacy. The Olympic Legacy represents a multifaceted concept concerning the short- and long-term changes—both positive and negative—that shape a city’s environmental, social, and economic landscapes. This chapter presents the IOC structures and resources that support legacy from the very beginning of the bid procedures. As participants in the process, cities must invest time and energy into executing the Olympics, an opportunity cost that should be considered carefully. This chapter outlines the two stages of the bid process, including the requirements to meet at each stage and the resources the IOC provides to bidders. Bid losers may not host the Games, but if they participate fully in the process, they may come away with an urban legacy that has the power to positively impact their cities.

Suggested Citation

  • Ngiste Abebe & Mary Trina Bolton & Maggie Pavelka & Morgan Pierstorff, 2014. "The Olympic Legacy," Sports Economics, Management, and Policy, in: Bidding for Development, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 15-27, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-1-4614-8912-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8912-2_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:semchp:978-1-4614-8912-2_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.