scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF REPORTING ON MALE AND FEMALE ATHLETES IN SERBIAN MEDIA DURING THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON 2012

2020 ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Nenad Stojiljković ◽  
Nebojša Randjelović ◽  
Danijela Živković ◽  
Danica Piršl ◽  
Irena Stanišić
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Women In Sports ◽  
The Olympic Games

The main goal of this paper was to find out more about how and to what extent the local media reported on sporting events at the 2012 London Olympics and to determine the difference in reporting on male and female athletes in the local media. The subject of the research are newspaper articles about sports in electronic news editions, which influence the formation of the media image about athletes, and which can contribute to the affirmation or marginalization of women in sports. In this research for collecting data and information about athletes at the Olympic Games, three media sources were used: RTS, KURIR and POLITIKA. The data have been collected since the opening of the Olympic Games until their official closing ceremony and every day was thoroughly processed in all three media sources. The information included information on the gender of the author of the text, the number of photos in the text, the number of words in the text, the gender of the actors who are on the photos, the level of exposure of the actor's bodies in the photos, the emotions in the photos, the angle of the camera, individual and group display of athletes, active or passive on-site and out-of-court conditions. Generally speaking, the findings of this research in the media space of Serbia show that there is still an imbalance in the way men and women athletes are represented, and that in this respect, there is a need for certain changes in this issue.

Sport Psychology Consultants’ Perceptions of Their Challenges at the London 2012 Olympic Games

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Elsborg ◽  
Gregory M. Diment ◽  
Anne-Marie Elbe
Keyword(s):  
Sport Psychology ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contextual Differences ◽  
The Olympic Games

The objective of this study was to explore how sport psychology consultants perceive the challenges they face at the Olympic Games. Post-Olympics semistructured interviews with 11 experienced sport psychology consultants who worked at the London Games were conducted. The interviews were transcribed and inductively content analyzed. Trustworthiness was reached through credibility activities (i.e., member checking and peer debriefing). The participants perceived a number of challenges important to being successful at the Olympic Games. These challenges were divided into two general themes: Challenges Before the Olympics (e.g., negotiating one’s role) and Challenges During the Olympics (e.g., dealing with the media). The challenges the sport psychology consultants perceived as important validate and cohere with the challenge descriptions that exist in the literature. The findings extend the knowledge on sport psychology consultancy at the Olympic Games by showing individual contextual differences between the consultants’ perceptions and by identifying four SPC roles at the Olympic Games.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE DA VISIBILIDADE E PARTICIPAÇÃO FEMININA NA COBERTURA DA OLIMPÍADA RIO 2016 REALIZADA PELOS PORTAIS ESPNW E LANCE!

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Valquiria Michela John ◽  
Elyson Gums
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Women In Sports ◽  
The Olympic Games

O jornalismo esportivo é uma área em que, historicamente, ainda impera uma cobertura predominantemente masculina. A Olimpíada, realizada no Brasil em agosto de 2016, faz com que esta visibilidade aumente, embora o destaque ainda seja inferior a atletas e modalidades masculinas. Assim, os Jogos surgem como um momento propício para analisar o espaço destinado à mulher no esporte e os papeis a elas atribuídos. Para isso, foi utilizada a Análise de Conteúdo, tendo como objetos os portais Lance!, portal referência em Jornalismo Esportivo no Brasil; e o ESPNW, criado em 2016 com foco na questão feminina. Foram coletadas todas as publicações referentes à Olimpíada Rio 2016 feitas em ambos os portais durante o período de 02 a 22 de agosto. Constata-se que mesmo durante a cobertura de um evento com grande participação de atletas mulheres, ainda há mais destaque para fontes masculinas – essas praticamente unânimes como especialistas/experts.   PALAVRAS-CHAVES: Gênero; Olimpíada; Jornalismo esportivo.     ABSTRACT In Sports journalism, historically, the coverage is predominantly masculine. The Olympic Games, held by Brazil, in August 2016, made this visibility grow, but masculine competitions and athletes keep being the highlight. Therefore, the Games are a propitious moment to analyze the space for women in sports and their assigned roles. To achieve this, it was used the method of Content Analysis having as research objects two sports web portals: Lance!, reference in Sports Journalism in Brazil; and espnW, created at 2016 focused in female issues. All publications concerning the Olympic Games in the period of August 02-22 – a day before the start of the first sport, women’s soccer, and one day after Games closure – were collected; It was verified that even during a competition with great participation of female athletes, male sources of information are featured – those practically unanimous as experts.   KEYWORDS: Gender; Olympic Games; Sports journalism.     RESUMEN El periodismo deportivo es un área donde, históricamente, todavía gobierna una cobertura predominantemente masculina. Los Juegos Olímpicos, celebrada en Brasil en agosto el año 2016, aumenta la visibilidad, aunque lo destacado es todavía inferior a los atletas masculinos y sus modalidades. Por lo tanto, los juegos aparecen como un buen momento para analizar el espacio para las mujeres en el deporte y las funciones que se les asignan. Para esto, se utilizó el análisis de contenido, teniendo como objeto los portales Lance!, referencia de portal en Periodismo Deportivo en Brasil y espnW, creado en 2016 con un enfoque en temas de la mujer. Hemos recogido todas las publicaciones relacionadas con los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016 realizadas en ambos portales durante el período 02 al 22 de de agosto. Encontramos que incluso durante la transmisión de un programa con gran participación de las mujeres deportistas, hay más énfasis en las fuentes de sexo masculino - éstos casi unánime como especialista/experto.   PALABRAS-CLAVE: Género; Juegos Olímpicos; periodismo deportivo.

scholarly journals The Development and Prediction of Athletic Performance in Freestyle Swimming

2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Stanula ◽  
Adam Maszczyk ◽  
Robert Roczniok ◽  
Przemysław Pietraszewski ◽  
Andrzej Ostrowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Athletic Performance ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
The Difference

The Development and Prediction of Athletic Performance in Freestyle Swimming This paper analyses the dynamics of changes between the performances of elite freestyle swimmers recorded at particular Olympic Games. It also uses a set of chronologically ordered results to predict probable times of swimmers at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. The analysis of past performances of freestyle swimmers and their prediction have revealed a number of interesting tendencies within separately examined results of men and women. Women's results improve more dynamically compared with men's. Moreover, the difference between women's and men's results is smaller, the longer the swimming distance. As both male and female athletes tend to compete more and more vigorously within their groups, the gap between the gold medallist and the last finisher in the final is constantly decreasing, which provides significant evidence that this sport discipline continues to develop.

scholarly journals ‘I don’t think they realise how good we are’: Innovation, inclusion and exclusion in women’s Olympic boxing

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Tjønndal
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Olympic Games

Marginalisation and exclusion of women in elite boxing has emerged as a substantial international problem, threatening women’s democratic right to equal participation in sport. Since the London 2012 Olympic Games women’s boxing has been an Olympic event. However, only 3 of the 10 weight categories were included in the Olympic programme for women. Today, male boxers compete in 10 out of 10 possible weight categories. While female boxers have gained accessed to a previously closed realm, discrimination, exclusion and unequal treatment of female athletes remains a widespread problem in international elite boxing. This article explores how the introduction of women’s boxing into the Olympic Games involves practices of inclusion and exclusion in elite boxing. In particular, this analysis focuses on the following two research questions: (a) how practices of social exclusion and inclusion affect the involvement and engagement of women in boxing; and (b) how, and in what ways, female boxers have experienced recognition and acceptance in elite boxing after the introduction of women’s boxing into the Olympic Games. Using a qualitative approach including document analysis of official press releases from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Boxing Association (AIBA), as well as interviews with athletes and coaches, this study reveals that although women’s boxing has gained access to the Olympics, the structural and cultural changes that comprise the social inclusion of women in boxing are yet to be implemented.

The prince and the pauper: Journalistic culture and Paralympic games in the Spanish print press

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1713-1729 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josep Solves ◽  
Sebastián Sánchez ◽  
Inmaculada Rius
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
The Media ◽  
Spanish Press ◽  
Motor Sports ◽  
Paralympic Games ◽  
The Olympic Games

The Paralympic Games are one of the world’s most important multisport events, maybe second only to the Olympic Games. However, research conducted to date shows that the media do not devote as much space to them as would accordingly be expected. This article proposes, through a case study, a new way of approaching this hypothetical discrimination by comparing the attention that the London Paralympic Games received from the Spanish print press with the attention that other sports received (football, basketball, tennis, cycling, motor sports and other minority sports) while those Games were being held. The main finding of our study is that over the period analysed, the Spanish press devoted less space to the Paralympic Games than to any other sport.

Sports press coverage of Polish female athletes during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Natalia Organista ◽  
Zuzanna Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Women's Sport ◽  
The Olympic Games

During the last Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Polish female representatives won sig-nificantly more medals compared to men. This fact made the authors examine whether female athletes received proportionate media coverage compared to men. In the course ofresearch, articles from the two largest Polish dailies were analysed (“Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Fakt Gazeta Codzienna”). With the use of content analysis, 197 articles were analysed in order to check whether any quantitative and qualitative differences can be observed in describing women's and men's sport. The results show underrepresentation of press coverage regarding women's sport. The results of qualitative analysis also point to a number of differences when portraying women's and men's sport.

scholarly journals One Guy Named Mo: Race, Nation and the London 2012 Olympic Games

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Burdsey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Track And Field ◽  
Distance Runner ◽  
The Public ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

The triumphal track and field performances of British distance runner, Mo Farah, at the London 2012 Olympic Games were lauded both for their athletic endeavor and for their perceived validation of the rhetoric of ethnic and cultural diversity and inclusion in which the Games were ensconced. By analyzing coverage of the athlete’s achievements in mainstream British newspapers, this article presents a more complicated and critical reading of the relationship between Britishness, multiculture, the politics of inclusion and the London Games. Employing a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, the article shows that Farah was constructed and represented by the media using narratives that are familiar, palatable and reassuring to the public; and that sustain hegemonic models of racialised nationhood and dominant ideologies around sport.

scholarly journals The Sources and Interpretation of Olympic Law

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark James ◽  
Guy Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Olympic Movement ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Olympic Games

AbstractIn this article, Mark James and Guy Osborn discuss how the relationships between the various members of the Olympic Movement are governed by the Olympic Charter and the legal framework within which an edition of the Olympic Games is organised. The legal status of the Charter and its interpretation by the Court of Arbitration for Sport are examined to identify who is subject to its terms and how challenges to its requirements can be made. Finally, by using the UK legislation that has been enacted to regulate advertising and trading at London 2012, the far-reaching and sometimes unexpected reach of Olympic Law is explored.

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