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Olympic engagement and the use of Olympic Solidarity programmes by Gulf Cooperation Council states
journal contribution
posted on 2015-07-01, 13:07 authored by Ian Henry, Marie-Therese CuschieriThis paper seeks to address the extent to which Olympic Solidarity (OS) funding patterns are consistent with the organisation's explicit mission, namely to serve the interests of National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and in particular those in greatest need. In addition, the paper reviews the extent to which Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have been able to avail themselves of such resources. While OS funding has tended at the level of the World Programme, to reflect a tendency to favour NOCs from less affluent economies, this tendency towards progressive funding has been weakening and to some extent reversed, since the mid-2000s. Funding of GCC states has tended to be well below that of other NOCs of comparable dimensions, reflecting the fact that Gulf States have not followed a ‘linear’ path to ‘modernity’ in sport. Such a linear path might be characterised as in an initial concern with growing participation, improving governance (through issues such as women's role in sport) and enhancing performance, but GCC states have instead focused on elements of a what might be characterised as a post-modern approach in the form of hosting of major events and the celebration of spectacle, and thus drawing relatively modestly on OS resources.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SPORTVolume
31Issue
14Pages
1707 - 1723 (17)Citation
HENRY, I. and CUSCHIERI, M.T., 2014. Olympic engagement and the use of Olympic Solidarity programmes by Gulf Cooperation Council states. International Journal of the History of Sport, 31 (14), pp. 1707 - 1723.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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2014Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in the International Journal of the History of Sport on 18 Aug 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09523367.2014.946263ISSN
0952-3367Publisher version
Language
- en