Olympic Games

Athens 2004

• Event Management and Group Communications: The Case of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens  (Journal article) by Papagiannopoulos, P.,  Xenikos, D.G., and Vouddas, P. in Event Management, Vol.13, No.2, 2009, pp.103-116.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library catalogue.  Or purchase from publisher's website.

Beijing 2008

• Annual Historical Review Promoting China in the World: Soft and Hard Power Politics-China After the Olympics, Special Issue of International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol.26 Iss.8, 2009.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library Catalogue, or purchase from publisher website.
• Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - An Environmental Review (163p. PDF) 
• The Environment, Beijing and the 2008 Olympic Games (45p. PDF) - Greenpeace assessment of the environmental initiatives of Beijing's 2008 Olympic Games.
• Marching in the Glory: Experiences and Meanings When Working for a Sport Mega-Event (Journal article) in Journal of Sport Management, Vol.23, No.2, pp.210-237.  (Available to UTS staff and students via Library Catalogue or purchase from JSM website.)
• Olympic Games Beijing 2008
• Perceptions of risk and travel intentions: The Case of China and the Beijing Olympic Games (Journal article) by Qi, Christine Xueqing; Gibson, Heather; and Zhang, James in Journal of Sport Tourism, Vol.14, No.1, Feb 2009, pp.43-67.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library Catalogue, or purchase from publisher's website.
• Residents' support of mega-events: A reexamination (Journal article) by Boo, Soyoung, Wang, Qijing, and Yu, Larry in Event Management, Vol.15, No.3, 2011, pp.215-232.  Available to UTS staff and students via UTS Library catalogue, or purchase through publisher website.

Impacts

• A beginners guide to the social impacts of the Olympics - from the Games Monitor website.
• Are you proud?: The influence of sport and community identity and job satisfaction on pride of mega-event volunteers (Journal article) by May Kim, Min Kil Kim, and Michael A. Odio in Event Management, Vol.14, No.2, 2010, pp.127-136.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library catalogue, or purchase from publisher's website.
• Do good Olympics make good neighbors? (Journal article) in Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol.26, No.3, 2008,  pp.460-467. (Available to UTS Staff and Students via Library Catalogue.  Available for purchase via Wiley InterScience website.)
• The economic impact of the Olympic Games: ex ante predictions and ex poste reality.  (Journal article) in Journal of Sport Management, Vol.22, No.4, 2008, pp.470-486.  (Available to UTS Staff and Students via Library Catalogue.  Available for purchase via JSM website.
• Effects of Hosting a Mega-Sport Event on Country Image (Journal article) in Event Management, Vol.14, No. 3, 2010 , pp.193-204.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library catalogue, or purchase from publisher's website.
• Event impacts and legacies (Chapter 3) in Festival and Special Event Management, 4th ed. 2008, pp.62-86  - Johnny Allen et al, John Wiley & Sons.  Available for purchase from ACEM website.  Borrow from UTS Library.
• Event leveraging of mega sport events: A SWOT analysis approach (Journal article) by Kostas Karadakis, Kiki Kaplanidou and George Karlis in International Journal of Event and Festival Management, Vol.1 Iss: 3, 2010, pp.170-185.  Available to purchase from publisher's website.
• Impacts of the Olympic Games as mega-events, 2004 (12p. PDF) - Conference paper by  M. Malfas, E. Theodoraki and B. Houlihan published in Municipal Engineer 157 Issue ME3.
• Leveraging a Mega-Event when not the Host City: Lessons from Pre-Olympic Training, 2006 (106p. PDF) - Sarah Gardiner and Laurence Chalip, Sustainable Tourism CRC.  Download available.
• Mega Events as an opportunity for Urban Regeneration. Impact on a Host Greek City - Workshop presentation by Efi Dimopoulou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
• Olympic Costs and Benefits: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2003 (33p. PDF) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office.
• Olympic Games host and bid city marketing: Exploring issue management in the relationships among event stakeholder groups (Journal article) by Xing Xiao Yan et al in International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, 2008, Vol.9, No.4, pp.321-335.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library catalogue.
• Olympic Games Impact Study Final report (25p. PDF) - London 2012 bid (Pricewaterhouse Coopers Dec 2005).
• Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended - Political, Cultural, Economic, Educational (Special issue) International Journal of the History of Sport, Vol. 25, Issue 14, 2008.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library catalogue.  Available to purchase from publisher website.
• Olympic-Legacy.com - scope is the legacy of the ancient Olympic games and the factors contributing to their revival in modern times.
• Passing the Olympic Games Learning Legacies torch: Creating a website to engage students and to build education bridges between the 2010, 2012 and 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games (Journal article) by Terry Hood and Maynard Kirkpatrick  in Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and  Tourism Education, Vol.9, No.1, Apr 2010.  Available for download from journal website.
• Residents' Perceptions towards the Impacts of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (Journal article) in Journal of Travel Research, 2009, Vol.48, No.1, pp.78-91.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library Catalogue.  Available for purchase via Publisher website.
• Residents' support of mega-events: A reexamination (Journal article) by Boo, Soyoung, Wang, Qijing, and Yu, Larry in Event Management, Vol.15, No.3, 2011, pp.215-232.  Available to UTS staff and students via UTS Library catalogue, or purchase through publisher website.
• Sponsor hospitality at the Olympic Games: an analysis of the implications for tourism (Journal article) in International Journal of Tourism Research, Vol.9, No.5, pp.315-327. (Available to UTS staff and students via Library catalogue.  Also available via Wiley InterScience website.)
• 'Sport for All' and major sporting events: Trends in sport participation and the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, the 2003 Rugby World Cup and the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games (38p. PDF) - A.J. Veal and Stephen Frawley, Feb 2009, UTS, School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism Working Paper No.6.  Available for download under Working Papers.
• 2012 Games - The Regeneration Legacy - download from Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors archives.
• Uncertain legacy: Sydney's Olympic stadiums (17p. PDF) (Journal article) by Glen Searle in European Planning Studies, Vol.10, No.7, 2002.   This paper illustrates the risks of partnership development of specialised infrastructure, and the way special events can lead urban development.

Information Resources

• Australian Centre for Olympic Studies, hosted by UTS School of Leisure, Sport and Tourism aims to provide a national focus for Olympic studies in Australia.
• Games Monitor -  a network of people raising awareness about issues within the London Olympic development processes.
• Information Resources on the Olympic Games, 2008 - America.gov online resource.
• Internet Resources for Olympic Studies - Intute:Social Sciences, University of Bristol and the University of Birmingham, UK.
• The IOA - International Olympic Academy
• The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System - The Free Library.
• Official Olympic Reports - The LA84 Foundation, with the permission of the International Olympic Committee, has web-published the official reports of all Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games held from 1896.  View the fulltext of several Official Olympic Reports.
• Olympic and Event Studies Collection - UTS Library webpage of links to resources supporting the research needs of those involved in both academic and commercial endeavours in the area of events.
• Olympic Archives -  documents and publications from the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG) available in the Olympic and Event Studies Room at the UTS Kuring-gai Campus Library, Lindfield, Sydney. 
• The Olympic Games: A Bibliography (184p. PDF) Comprehensive bibliography compiled by A. J. Veal, University of Technology, Sydney.©  Last updated June 2011.  Updated annually. 
• Olympic Links - Australian Centre for Olympic Studies webpage.
• The Olympics: A Guide to Reference Sources held in the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
• Resource Guide to the Olympic Games, 2006 (29p. PDF) - Higher Education Academy (UK) guide includes material primarily from either academic books or articles from peer reviewed, popular journals.

London 2012  

• The budget for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2008 (40p. PDF) -  Fourteenth Report of Session 2007-08, House of Commons, Committee of Public Accounts.
• The Environmental Sustainability of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (24p. PDF) - London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG).
• Going for Gold: Transport for London's 2012 Olympic Games, Vol 1, 2006  (79p. PDF) - House of Commons, Transport Committee.
• Governing mega-events: Tools of security risk management for the London 2012 Olympic Games and FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany, 2009 (19p. PDF) - Conference paper presented by Will Jennings and Martin Lodge at the 59th Political Studies Association Conference in Manchester, April 2009.
• Laminated security for London 2012: Enhancing security infrastructures to defend mega sporting events (Journal article) by  Jon Coaffee, Pete Fussey and Cerwyn Moore in Urban Studies. London: Nov 2011. Vol. 48, Iss.15, p. 3311.   Available to UTS staff and students via UTS Library catalogue, or purchase from publisher website. 
• London 2012: a sustainable sporting legacy? (14p. PDF) by Professor Fred Coalter, University of Stirling.
• London 2012 Games: the next lap, 2008 (81p. PDF) - House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee Sixth Report of Session 2007-08.
• London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games: funding and legacy, Second Report of Session 2006-07 (62p. PDF) - House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee.
• LONDON 2012's UK STATUTORY MARKETING RIGHTS (53p. PDF) - A guide to LOCOG's legal rights relating to the London 2012 brand.
• London 2012 - Will it be Regeneration or Renaissance? (10p. PDF) -  Deborah Sadd et al (Conference paper 1707) in 'Re-eventing' the City/Town: Events as a Catalyst for Change - Proceedings of 4th International Event Research Conference (Melbourne, July 2007), pp.120-129. 
• Major sporting events-planning for legacy - Paper by M. Taylor and I. Edmondson in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Municipal Engineer, 160, Dec 2007, Issue ME4, pp.171-176.
• No Go Logo? London's 2012's Branding Hurdle, 2007 (4p. PDF) - article by Dr. Andy Miah in Culture @ the Olympics, 2007: vol. 9, issue 3, pp.14-17.
• Olympic Games Impact Study Final report (25p. PDF) - London 2012 bid (Pricewaterhouse Coopers Dec 2005).
• Olympic Games London 2012  
• Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Progress Report June 2008 (56p. PDF) - National Audit Office.
• Preparations for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - Risk assessment and management, 2007 (42p. PDF) - National Audit Office.
• The role of the media in influencing residents' support for the 2012 Olympic Games (Journal article) by Brent W. Ritchie, Richard Shipway and P. Monica Chien in International Journal of Event and Festival Management, Vol. 1 Iss: 3, 2010, pp.202-219.  Available to purchase from publisher's website.
• Sustainable legacies for the 2012 Olympic Games (Journal article) - Richard Shipway article in The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, Vol.127, No.3, 2007, pp.119-124.  Available to purchase from Publisher website.
• 2012 Games - The Regeneration Legacy - download from Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors archives.
• Using the Brand - brand protection information from London 2012 Organising Committee.
• What is event-led regeneration? Are we confusing terminology or will London 2012 be the first Games to truly benefit the local existing population? (Journal article) by Deborah Sadd, in Event Management, Vol.13, No. 4, 2009, pp. 265-275.  Available to UTS staff and students via Library Catalogue, or purchase from Publisher's website.
• World Class Customer Service.... for 2012 and beyond - Research and recommendations regarding how best to raise customer service standards across the visitor economy in advance of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.  Download available.

Rio de Janeiro 2016

• Rio de Janeiro

Sustainability

• London 2012 Sustainability Plan - Towards a One planet, Nov 2007 - (68p. PDF) - Social, economic and environmental sustainability - and the One Planet Living® concept - remain central to the vision for 2012.
• Meeting the Challenge: A carbon neutral 2010 winter games - a discussion paper for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).  Download from the David Suzuki Foundation website.
• Towards a One Planet Olympics: Achieving the first sustainable Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (7p. PDF) - Joint initiative of London 2012, WWF and BioRegional.  If link broken, copy title into search engine.

Sydney 2000 

• The Games for Everyone? Planning for Disability and Access at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic & Olympic Games (12p. PDF) - Article by Simon Darcy, M.Env. Planning, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.
• Imaging, Tourism & Sports Event Fever: The Sydney Olympics and the Need for a Social Charter for Mega-Events (30p. PDF) -  paper by C. Michael Hall based on presentation at the Sport in the City Conference, 2-4th July 1998, Sheffield.
• The Official Post Games Report of the Sydney 2000 Games, published by the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, 2001.
• Socio-economic impact of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games (10p. PDF) - Jill Haynes, National Sport Information Centre Australia.
• Strategic Business Leveraging of a Mega Sport Event: the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games experience, 2005 (40p. PDF) - Danny O'Brien, Sustainable Tourism CRC.  Download from Bookshop titles list.
• The Sydney Olympics and Foreign Attitudes towards Australia, 2004 (76p. PDF) - Nancy Rivenburgh et al, Sustainable Tourism CRC.  Download from Bookshop titles list.
• Uncertain legacy: Sydney's Olympic stadiums (17p. PDF) (Journal article) by Glen Searle in European Planning Studies, Vol.10, No.7, 2002.   This paper illustrates the risks of partnership development of specialised infrastructure, and the way special events can lead urban development.

Terrorism

• Mega events, fear, and risk: terrorism at the Olympic Games.  (Journal article) in Journal of Sport Management, Vol.22, No.4, 2008, pp.451-469.  (Available to UTS Staff and Students via Library catalogue.  Available to purchase directly from JSM website.) 

Transportation

• Intelligent Transport Systems at the Atlanta Olympic Games - How did we get there? - download paper from the European Transport Conference 1997 website.
• Public transport planning for the greatest event - the 2004 Olympic Games - download paper from European Transport Conference 2003 website.
• Rail developments for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and Shanghai 2010 World Expo (26p. PDF) Phlllippe Bovy, IOC Transport Expert.
• Solving outstanding mega-event transport challenges: the Olympic experience, 2006 (3p. PDF) - Prof. Philippe Bovy, IOC transport expert.
• World Mega-event Global Transport and Traffic Management (28p. PDF) - Metro China 2004 - Olympic Games, World Expo and development of Urban & Regional Rail Transit in China - Phillipe H. Bovy, IOC Transport Expert. 

Vancouver 2010

• 2010 Legacies Now is dedicated to strengthening arts, literacy, sport and recreation, physical activity and volunteerism in communities throughout BC leading up to and beyond the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
• Olympic Costs and Benefits: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Proposed Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, 2003 (33p. PDF) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office.
• Olympic Games Vancouver Winter 2010
• Vancouver's promise of the world's first sustainable Olympic Games - journal article by  Meg Holden, Julia MacKenzie and Robert VanWynsberghe in  Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 2008, vol. 26, issue 5, pages 882-905.  Download available from EconPapers website.