The role of voluntary sport organisations in leveraging the London 2012 sport participation legacy

Hayday, Emily Jane; Pappous, Athanasios; Koutrou, Niki

doi:10.1080/02614367.2019.1662829

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“…Historically, the London 2012 Olympics bid made a similar promise to encourage more people across the United Kingdom to participate in sports by hosting the Olympic Games [5][6][7]. The motto of the London 2012 Olympics was to "inspire a generation", which implied that London would use the Olympic sport participation legacy to inspire people across the country, especially the young, to participate in sports and increase participation rates [7][8][9]. The State General Administration of Sports of China [10] claimed that, according to the National Bureau of Statistics, from the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics (July 2015) to October 2021, the number of people participating in snow and ice sports nationwide reached 346 million, accounting for 24.56% of China's total population.…”

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Sustainable Development of Olympic Sport Participation Legacy: A Scoping Review Based on the PAGER Framework

Shi

Bairner

2022

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After the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese officials claimed that the goal of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports” had been achieved. Historically, the London 2012 Olympic Games had a similar goal: to increase sports participation for all by hosting the Olympic Games. Given these goals, the impact of the Olympic Games on sports participation has clearly become significant. These impacts can be referred to as the Olympic sport participation legacy, an intangible Olympic legacy. The Olympic sport participation legacy has attracted a lot of researchers’ interest in the academic field in recent years. This paper aims to conduct a scoping review of Olympic sport participation legacy studies between 2000 and 2021 to identify the progress of studies on the sustainability of Olympic sport participation legacies. Unlike previous scoping reviews on sport participation legacies, this review adopts a Patterns, Advances, Gaps, Evidence of Practice, and Research Recommendations (PAGER) framework at the results analysis stage to improve the quality of the findings. The results from the scoping review contained 54 peer-reviewed articles on three levels of research: the population level, social level, and intervention processes. Many studies indicate that achieving a sustainable Olympic sport participation legacy requires joint collaboration and long-term planning between governments, community organisations, and other stakeholders.

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Sustainable Development of Olympic Sport Participation Legacy: A Scoping Review Based on the PAGER Framework

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2022

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“…; and, do episodic volunteers become long-term volunteers that help sustain and future-proof the sport sector and wider community? (see Burton & Leberman, 2017;Hayday et al, 2019;Koutrou, 2018;O'Boyle et al, 2015). As noted by several papers in this special issue, in response to some of the enduring questions aboveand to fulfil other varied political, economic and social agendas,international, state and domestic agencies have turned substantially toward the volunteer sector to deliver, maintain and develop an increasingly wide array of services to individual, groups and local communities.…”

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Editorial: sport volunteering, educational leadership and social transformation

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Koutrou

2021

Sport, Education and Society

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Volunteerism is considered an innately altruistic and meaningful act. In light of prevailing public health, well-being and educational discourses, volunteerism has been afforded greater value as an area of global concern; particularly in relation to creating and sustaining opportunities for people to engage in sport, physical activity and leisure. Against this backdrop, the interrelated area of sport, physical activity, physical education and leisure-related volunteering represent a vibrant landscape of ideas, activities and enterprise. From local community and grassroots ventures, regional development projects, to large scale sport mega-events, volunteerism within this space offers a means for substantial individual and collective interaction, personal and professional skill development, knowledge transfer, capacity building and sector transformation. Yet, while advantageous aspects of volunteerism are well-founded, they may rarely be guaranteed. Rather, sustaining volunteerism (both in and beyond the sport sector) requires considerable foresight, investment, resourcing and goodwill. Moreover, while volunteerism may provide considerable benefits for those involved, and official organisation rhetoric continues to pronounce volunteerism as means to/of 'mobility', 'change', 'action' and 'empowerment', such characteristics and benefits are not always inherent, evident or shared equally among participants. Moreover, nor do they necessarily contribute to the growth and sustainability of the sector more generally. Accordingly, it remains of value to interrogate volunteerism and sport volunteerism as a site of collaborative social interaction, experience and opportunities. This special issue explores sport volunteering; educational leadership; social transformation, in addition to this editorial, 6 papers build on debates and discussions positioning the impact and importance of sport for good in the communities they focus on. The links between sport volunteering, leadership and social transformation make a unique contribution to the literature on sport, education and society. These connections concern both theory and practice as this aligns with government initiatives and policies to encourage volunteering for social development and sustainability.

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Delivering a sports participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: evidence from sport development workers in Birmingham and their experiences of a double-bind

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Legacy promises from London 2012 meant that those working in sport in local, non-host areas in Britain were expected to facilitate more sporting opportunities for local citizens. Legacy preparations occurred in the context of many other constraints that stemmed from Government budget cuts and provision of leisure-time sport and other leisure activities. This paper presents new evidence on a significantly underresearched area of leisure studies, namely: the experiences of those delivering leisuresport opportunities in a non-host city and how they responded to national legacy promises. Using Elias's concept of the double-bind, we explain the 'crisis situation' in which some local sports workers were enmeshed and how their acceptance of 'fantasyladen beliefs' of expected demonstration effects from mega-events exacerbated their 'crisis' (Elias, 2007). We also draw upon participants' post-Games reflections to consider how future host nations may wish to leverage greater leisure-sporting legacies from a mega-event.

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The role of voluntary sport organisations in leveraging the London 2012 sport participation legacy

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Cited by 10 publications

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Sustainable Development of Olympic Sport Participation Legacy: A Scoping Review Based on the PAGER Framework

Sustainable Development of Olympic Sport Participation Legacy: A Scoping Review Based on the PAGER Framework

Editorial: sport volunteering, educational leadership and social transformation

Delivering a sports participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: evidence from sport development workers in Birmingham and their experiences of a double-bind

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