Mega‐Events and Nationalism: The 2008 Olympic Torch RelayFootnote^*

* I would like to thank Michael Curry, Adam Moore, Wang Chaohua, John Agnew, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions. I would also like to thank Wang Jida, Kebonye Dintwe, and Matt Zebrowski for their help creating various versions of the map that appears in this article, and Mostafa Salameh for permission in using his photograph.

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