Essays about: "Olympic winter sport"
Found 4 essays containing the words Olympic winter sport.
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1. Framing the Olympics: RT’s Responses to Controversies Linked With Russia’s Presence at the Winter Games from 2014-2022
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och EurasienstudierAbstract : The Russian Federation’s presence on the global stage of the Olympic Games has been linked with considerable controversy from 2014 onwards. The nation’s use of international sport for promoting its image, state-sponsored doping, and Russia’s illegal occupations of Ukraine staged in close time proximity with the Games are all controversies which have taken their toll on the country’s image, both within and beyond the context of sport. READ MORE
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2. Does a Tailored Nine-week Training Intervention Improve Jump Height, Single-leg Stability, and Whole-body Stability Performance in Young Cross-country Skiers?
University essay from Umeå universitet/Avdelningen för idrottsmedicinAbstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate if a nine-week training intervention composed of different mobility and stability exercises intending to improve jump height, whole-body stability, and single-leg stability of junior cross-country skiers. It was also of interest to see if the test equipment could determine the study participants' potential risk of injury with a built-in injury predictor measurement, Musculoskeletal Health (MSK). READ MORE
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3. The effect of sports diplomacy on inter-Korean relations
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för Asien-, Mellanöstern- och TurkietstudierAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to explain how sports events, in which North and South Korea have in some way worked or competed together, have affected the relationship between the two nations. This is carried out through the investigation of specific events; the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics, the competing of the joint table tennis- and football teams in 1991, the cooperation happening during the “sunshine policy”, from 1998 until 2008, as well as the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. READ MORE
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4. Asymmetry in Elite Snowboarders : A Study comparing Range of Motion in the Hip and Spine, Power in Lower Extremities and Circumference of Thigh
University essay from Sektionen för ekonomi och teknik (SET); Biomekanik och biomedicinAbstract : Snowboarding is a relatively young sport and has grown since the birth in the 1960-70. Today, snowboarding still is a lifestyle to many, but also an accepted mainstream sport and has been an Olympic sport since the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano, Japan 1998 (18,35,36). READ MORE
