Olympic Legacy

Since there are ongoing and continuing impacts of the Sydney 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Legacy section is a place where they will be recorded and provide a guide for further study.

The Bitter-Sweet Awakening The Legacy of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

Book Details

Richard Cashman

Hardback, Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography

wallawallapress.com 2006

ISBN 1 876718 90 0

$49.95

Published in conjunction with the Siberian Centre for Olympic Studies, UTS

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Individual chapters, and the entire book, are also available to purchase as .pdf files.

Has the reputation of the Sydney Olympic and Paralympic Games been sustained? Have the long-term impacts of the Games been positive or negative? Have the promised benefits to the host community been realised?

There has been increasing recognition of the importance of the impacts of mega sporting events and in 2001 the International Olympic Committee initiated its Olympic Games Global Impact Project. The Bitter-Sweet Awakening is the first book of its kind, a broad-ranging analysis of the impacts of one particular Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Chapters

1. When Carnival is Over
2. Memory
3. Media, identity and culture
4. Economic outcomes
5. International dimensions
6. The future of Sydney Olympic Park
7. Sport
8. Environment
9. Community impacts
10. Paralympic Games
11. A Continuing Legacy