Olympism in Action, Olympic hosting and the politics of ‘Sport for Development and Peace’: investigating the development discourses of Rio 2016Footnote

¹ An earlier version of this paper was presented at the 10th International Symposium for Olympic Research, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, October 2010 and appears in the conference proceedings: Barney, Forsyth, and Heine, eds. Rethinking Matters Olympic.

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