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From Diving Boards to Pole Vaults: Gendered Athlete Portrayals in the “Big Four” Sports at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics

Andrew C. Billings Department of Communication Studies, Clemson UniversityCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 329-344 | Published online: 26 Oct 2007

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Qingru Xu & Andrew C. Billings. (2020) The Medal War in Peacetime: Examining Nationalistic Notions Embedded in CCTV’s Coverage of Gymnastics in the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. Journal of Global Sport Management 5:3, pages 243-261.
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AndrewC. Billings, JamesR. Angelini, PaulJ. MacArthur, Kimberly Bissell, LaurenR. Smith & NatalieA. Brown. (2014) Where the Gender Differences Really Reside: The “Big Five” Sports Featured in NBC's 2012 London Primetime Olympic Broadcast. Communication Research Reports 31:2, pages 141-153.
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Qingru Xu, Andrew C Billings, Olan K M Scott, Melvin Lewis & Stirling Sharpe. (2017) Gender differences through the lens of Rio: Australian Olympic primetime coverage of the 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games. International Review for the Sociology of Sport 54:5, pages 517-535.
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