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This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strategies and the legacies from previous sports megas (London, Seoul, Sydney, Vancouver) and recent and future ´emerging´ states and their hosting strategies (India, China, Qatar, Russia, Brazil).

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PART I: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES 1. From Legacy to Leverage; Laurence Chalip 2. Megas for Strivers: the Politics of Second Order Events; David Black 3. ´Legacy´ Revisited; Holger Preuss 4. Sports Mega-Events and Mass Participation in Sport; Mike Weed 5. Neo-Liberalism and Sports Mega-Events; Michael Silk PART II: PREVIOUS SPORTS MEGA-EVENT STRATEGIES 6. Sydney 2000 and Melbourne 2006: A Tale of Two Australian Cities; Bob Stewart 7. ´Leaving Las Magas´, or Can Sustainability ever be Social? Vancouver 2010 in Post-Political Perspective; Caitlin Pentifallo and Robert Van Wynsberghe 8. Seoul 1998; Alan Bairner and Ji-Hyun Cho 9. The Legacy of the 2002 Shanghai Tennis Masters Cup; Dongfeng Liu 10. London 2012; John Horne and Barrie Houlihan PART III: ´EMERGING STATES´ AND SPORTS MEGA-EVENTS 11. Magical Thought and the Legacy Discourse of the 2008 Beijing Games; Wolfram Manzenreiter 12. Dreaming Big: Spectacular Events and the ´World-Class´ City - The Commonwealth Games in Delhi; Amita Baviskar 13. South Africa´s ´Coming Out Party´: Reflections on the Significance and Implications of the 2010 FIFA World Cup; Scarlett Cornelissen 14. Qatar, Global Sport, and the 2022 FIFA World Cup; Paul Brannagan and Richard Giulianotti 15. Russia: Showcasing a ´Re-Emerging´ State?; Oleg Golubchikov and Irina Slepukhina

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"International sports mega-events and their legacies are much debated features of contemporary culture. In this book many of the main writers in the field provide valuable new and accessible studies of this phenomenon. This book deserves to be widely read." -Maurice C. Roche, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Sheffield, UK

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