Clique aqui para Português Following books on how the Olympics advance the interests of corporate capitalism and how grassroots activists resisted this trend in Vancouver and London, Olympic researcher Jules Boykoff’s third book, Power Games: A […]
Clique aqui para Português Today, October 31, the United Nations invites individuals, communities and countries worldwide to celebrate World Cities Day. The annual event was developed in 2013 with the aim to “promote the international community’s […]
The Commonwealth Games 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland (G2014) closed on August 3 after eleven days of sport. Scotland’s athletes “brought home the gold” by winning over forty medals, adding to the patriotic sense of achievement from […]
Clique aqui para Português As a symbolic space in Rio de Janeiro, there is little to compare to the Maracanã stadium. Its history and position in the urban imagination is tightly linked to the cultural […]
Research funded by the IOC plans to follow promises made by the Rio 2016 Olympic Committee One of the major social legacy promises found in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic and Paralympic Games Candidature […]