Elite sport and sport-for-all: bridging the two cultures?

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Notes

1 See Kevin Jeffreys, ‘Sport Policy: An Unheralded Success Story’, in Harold Wilson: The Unprincipled Prime Minister? Reappraising Harold Wilson, eds Andrew S. Crines and Kevin Hickson (London: Biteback Publishing, 2016), 185–203.

2 For examples of the scholarly scepticism around hosting major sports events, see, among others, Daniel Bloyce and Andy Smith, Sport Policy and Development: An Introduction (London: Routledge, 2010), 161–2, 184–5.

3 See BBC Sport, ‘Olympics & Paralympics 2020: Badminton among Seven Sports to Lose Funding Appeals’, http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/39027138 (accessed 20 February 2017).

4 Jonathan Grix, Paul M. Brannagan, Hannah Wood and Ceri Wynne, ‘State strategies for leveraging sports mega-events: unpacking the concept of “legacy”’, Journal of Sport Policy and Politics 9, no. 2 (2017): 203–18.