Socio-economic impact of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

Paper presented at the 2001 seminar of the International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB). The seminar offers a general reflection, from the time of the bid onwards, of the 2000 Games experience in Sydney and Australia.

Keys to interpret the Games: Sydney 2000 Olympics

Document published by the CEO-UAB, corresponding to the results of the research undertaken by the author during the celebration of the Sydney 2000 Games.

Internet and the Olympic Movement

Paper analysing the increasing importance of Internet in organisations, the evolution of the use of information technology in the Olympic Games and the challenges that Internet can bring to the Olympic Movement. This paper was presented at the 11th IASI World Conference on Sports Information (Lausanne, 25-27 April 2001)

Internet y el movimiento olímpico

Ponencia que analiza la cada vez mayor importancia de Internet en las organizaciones, la evolución en el uso de las tecnologías de la información en los Juegos Olímpicos y los retos que Internet plantea al Movimiento Olímpic. Este texto fue presentado en el 11th IASI World Conference on Sports Information (Lausana, 25-27 abril 2001).

The Olympic Movement and Information Society: New Internet Challenges and Opportunities

Article describing the current situation of the Internet, the use of Internet by sport institutions, and the relationship between the Internet and the Olympic Games, and the Olympic Movement. This paper was presented at the International Symposium on Television in the Olympic Games held in Lausanne in October 1998.

Sport and multiculturalism: an European perspective

Opening conference of the academic course 2005/06 of the Olympic Studies Centre (CEO-UAB), given by Dr. Ian P. Henry, director of the Institute for Sport and Leisure Policy at Loughborough University (United Kingdom). The paper is structured around addressing three themes: how concepts of multiculturalism or interculturalism, nationality and citizenship can be linked to sports policy; how we can conceptualise (and therefore evaluate) the benefits which might be claimed to accrue from sporting projects in terms of multicultural or integration policy; and finally the issue of gender, multiculturalism and sports policy.

Olympic Villages after the Games

Article analysing the use of Olympic villages once the Games are finished. This article was published in the book entitled ‘Olympic Villages: a hundred years of urban planning and shared experiences’ compiling the papers given at the 1997 International Symposium on International Chair in Olympism (IOC-UAB).

Jocs olímpics i educació: l'esport i l'escola de Barcelona'92

Aquest text és la transcripció de la intervenció de la Sra. M. Antònia Cardona, professora de Pedagogia de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, en el Curs Universitari sobre Olimpisme que va organitzar el Centre d’Estudis Olímpics (CEO-UAB), el mes de febrer de 1991. En ell es tracta el tema de l'educació en els Jocs olímpics a l'escola.

Comunicació, identitats culturals i Jocs Olímpics: l’experiència de Barcelona ‘92

Document publicat pel CEO-UAB l'abril de 1992 com a part de la col·lecció &i&Working Papers&/i& incloent els resultats de la recerca duta a terme per l'autor al voltant de la planificació i cobertura mediàtica dels Jocs Olímpics de Barcelona'92 i les seves implicacions culturals.

Els jocs de la il·Iusió: la integració del disminuït psíquic a través de l’esport i del moviment Special Olympics

Aquest treball es va realitzar per a l’assignatura Campus “Olimpisme, Esport i Societat” durant el curs 1996-97. En ell es proporcionen els principis de la institució Special Olympics, i es descriu l’organització de la cinquena edició dels Jocs Special Olympics de Catalunya que van tenir lloc a Reus, el 1996.

La Olimpiada Popular de 1936: deporte y política

Las complejas relaciones entre política y deporte y, más concretamente aún, entre deporte y pulsión nacionalista, son exploradas por el autor a la luz de la Olimpíada Popular de 1936, organizada –y finalmente no celebrada– en la Barcelona inmediatamente anterior al golpe de Estado del 18 de julio como réplica y alternativa a los Juegos Olímpicos que aquel verano se celebraron en Berlín, entonces capital del incipiente Tercer Reich.

Olympic Games as showcase

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, besides the country-versus-country typical showdown in the backdrop of Olympics, and the economic and political impulses for the host city, there was a third factor complicating the celebration: rivalry between the Catalan hosts and the Spanish state. By guiding the development of and eventual Olympic projection of national identity, Catalan and Spanish politicians hoped to create a resounding rallying point around which they could unite disparate individuals. The text is made up of: an introduction, five paragraphs on the different political perspective, conclusions, a commentary on the tallying of score and a note section with bibliographical references.

Politics and the Olympics: some new dimensions

Paper given at the Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, Barcelona in 1995 analysing the relationship between politics, the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement and their influences.

The economy of the Beijing Olympic Games: An analysis of first impacts and prospects

This paper was presented at the International Sport Business Symposium, held by the Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, in 2008. The speakers, Ferran Brunet, as a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Zuo Xinwen, as a member of Beijing Development and Reform Commission, both set out to analyze changes in the economic and social development of the city which were undertaken with the aim to celebrate the 2008 Olympic Games. They discuss aspects as a transformation in the mode of economic growth, resources of the Organizing Committee, investments related to the Games, transport and communications, industries, the balance of urban and rural development, urban construction and management service and operations into a well-off society.

Visualización estéreo

En este proyecto se muestran las posibilidades de la visión estéreo para la visualización en monitores tanto de objetos simples como de grandes escenarios, así como su aplicación en juegos o en otros ámbitos como el cine, la geología e incluso la medicina. Para el desarrollo se ha usado una tarjeta con soporte 3d como la Nvidia 7600GT y una pantalla con una tasa de frecuencia alta como una ACER 19 pulgadas a 100Hz. Los resultados sobre la visualización han sido extraídos de las opiniones de un grupo de 20 personas, de diversas profesiones, no relacionadas con los gráficos por ordenador.