Abstract des Autors

This research provides an overview of the prominent themes and approaches chosen by the 23 volunteer scholars and experts who participated in the Olympic Idea Nowadays (OIN) e-book. More specifically, this study had three core purposes: (i) to identify the central themes covered by the participant scholars; (ii) to present, both visually and textually, the main keywords used by these scholars to discuss and reflect on the two questions posed by the research: (1) “How has the Olympic Movement changed since Sydney 2000? How do you think it will develop in the near future?”, and (2) “How have London 2012 and Sochi 2014 supported or changed the Olympic Movement?”; and (iii) to compare these themes against the ones cited in Olympic Agenda 2020. After outlining the methodology and the procedure employed, the presentation of the findings is supported by images generated with the software Wordle.