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Managing Legacy

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This chapter will review legacy-management processes that have emerged in the last decade and comment on their effectiveness. Because legacy-management processes are still evolving and there remain gaps, loose ends and shortcomings in protocols and procedures, it will be argued that legacy management is still evolving. Indeed, it is a more difficult exercise than the management of the Games as an event. The following issues will be considered:

  • The diffuse character and variety of legacy objectives;

  • The problem of legacy assessment and its time frame;

  • Legacy governance;

  • The monitoring of legacy by an Olympic city and the IOC;

  • The policing of legacy;

  • Research into legacy management.

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  • Sport Participation
  • Olympic Game
  • Positive Legacy
  • Host City
  • Great London Authority

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  1. Richard Cashman
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  1. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

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Cashman, R., Horne, J. (2013). Managing Legacy. In: Frawley, S., Adair, D. (eds) Managing the Olympics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230389588_4

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