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This chapter outlines how the task of managing sport at an Olympic Games has become increasingly more complex as the Games have grown in size as well as becoming more technologically and media interdependent. To provide contextual background, a brief review of this growth is discussed together with data on the event’s scale and dimensionality, indicated by the changing number of events, athletes and spectators, and, by association, sports-related managerial and operational planning.
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Frawley, S., Toohey, K., Taylor, T., Zakus, D. (2013). Managing Sport at the Olympic Games. In: Frawley, S., Adair, D. (eds) Managing the Olympics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389588_6
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