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The future of sports mega-events : innovations for after the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games = O futuro dos megaeventos esportivos : inovações pós Copa 2014 e Jogos Olímpicos e Paralímpicos 2016 / Ana Miragaya, Lamartine DaCosta .... [et al.]
Edited by [s.n.] - 2015
"The future of sports mega-events" is an innovative bilingual English/Portuguese e-book that seeks to promote scientific and technological innovation in the field of sport on the basis of the recommendations made by Olympic Agenda 2020, adopted at the 127th Session of the International Olympic Committee in Monaco (8-9 December 2014). The book comprises a selection of texts written by around 50 university lecturers, most of them Brazilian. The main objective of these texts is to discuss, analyse and propose ways of implementing the Olympic Agenda 2020 as part of the legacies management of the FIFA 2014 World Cup and the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. More generally, the authors offer important insights on the future of the Olympics and other sports mega-events.