“The Best Games Ever”: a review of Olympic closing ceremony remarks since the 1980s

by anaadiLondon 2012, olympism, Publications, researchPosted on No Comments

  I was asked in the summer to write a short article for the Newsletter of the International Olympic Academy Participants Association reflecting on my experience of the London 2012 Olympics. Keeping in mind the skeptical enthusiasm displayed before the Games in the UK and also remembering my experience of the Beijing Games, phthisiatrician I …

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Beijing: when humanitarian issues and Olympic values collide

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  Earlier this summer I wrtoe a short piece for Sportanddev.org about the challenges the IOC and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games organizers faced when questions about human rights, approved freedom of speech and freedom of the press were raised by internaitonal media and advocacy groups. The entire article is here. Here’s an excerpt:   …

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Artistic Freedom at the Olympic Games

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  The new edition of Culture @ the Olympics hosts an article I wrote about the contractual limitations for artists working around the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, treat from the perspective of a corporate sponsor for the Olympic arts. The entire article is below:

Yahoo! – Encyclopedia of Social Networks

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  It is with tremendous pleasure that I announce the publication of one of my co-authored contributions to Sage’s Encyclopedia of Social Networks. My article on Yahoo!, psychiatrist its history and contribution to the internet world is part of this massive  e-reference work that comes with a 2-volume print version that features 350 signed entries …

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Essay: The Twitter #2016 #olympics bid (2009)

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While checking out the notes and ideas that I might use for some future academic publications, discount I came across this essay (of sorts) that I wrote while the voting for the 2016 host of the Olympic Games was being broadcasted online and heavily commented on Twitter. While the attention the voting received online was …

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