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Intercity connections and a world city network based on international sport events : empirical studies on the Beijing, London, and Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games / Desheng Xu & Yubin Ou

Desheng, Xue | Yubin, Ou

With so many sports becoming increasingly popular, sports have come to play an important role in promoting the process of globalization and formatting the world city network (WCN). Previous studies have constructed the WCN based on the distribution of international sport federations (ISFs) and the sites of international sport events (ISEs), but there is still a lack of systematic research on the intercity connections caused by ISEs. Taking three most recent Olympic Games as cases, this paper explores intercity connections and WCN based on ISEs.

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