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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Sport Governance"”.
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Chinese student-athlete? A socio-cultural examination of education for elite Chinese athletes
… in China are generating new initiatives in the sports industry, which has opened this sector to innovative development programs that correspond to citizens’ changing needs. This dissertation is based on my doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and on research …
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Governance strategies towards organising for action sports: A national structure for New Zealand skateboarding
… the processes and politics involved in the sportisation and institutionalisation of skateboarding in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In 2016, the IOC announced that skateboarding would debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, and its governance was given to the ISF World Skate (i.e. a partnership between the …
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Game, Set, Watched: Governance, Social Control and Surveillance in Professional Tennis
Contrary to many major sporting leagues such as the NHL, NFL, NBA, and MLB, or the Olympic Games as a whole, the professional tennis industry has not been individually scrutinized in terms of governance, social control, and surveillance practices. This thesis presents an in-depth account of the …