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The Study of Factors to the Failure or Success of Applying to Holding International Sport Games

Abstract
For years, holding international sport games has been Taiwan¡¦s goal and we are on the way to realize it. The experiences of applying to holding international sport games are beneficial to our ability in future applying. The success of acquiring the opportunities to hold international society¡¦s committeemen sport games can improve our sport ability boost our national image, and strengthen the society¡¦s committeemen. Sine Taiwan has applied many times in the past; we have accumulated certain level of experience. The history of applying to holding East Asia Games, Asia Games, International University Games, International Children¡¦s Games, World Games, and Deaf Olympics showed that our determination and efforts to hold international sport games. Through literature review, this study aims to find the effects of holding an international game. Then, based on scholars and experts¡¦ opinions, the paper tried to find the factors of successfully acquiring the ownership of holding Olympic Games. In addition to political factors, there should be other factors of acquiring the ownership of international sport games.
Due to the fact that most documents for application are not accessible, the study aims to make use of documents revealed to the public provided by IOC. The results of this study show in the first phase those cities hoping to be the candidate cities have no ideas about what other opponent cities are. Therefore, all those cities can do is to prove their capabilities with numeral statements to pass standards IOC set. In the second phase, IOC will send experts to candidate cities to investigate the infrastructure of candidate cites and get a comprehensive understanding about how the candidate cities are going to deal with every aspect that is necessary to take care for holding Olympic Games. The results of the first and second phases may greatly differ. The most crucial point lies in the election held in IOC session that will hold the selection of host cities after candidate cities make their last presentations about their plans concerning holding Olympic Games.
According to the study mentioned above, I came up with following suggestions. The success of acquiring the opportunities to hold international sport games lies in continuous improvement of applicant city and through learning during the application process. The experiences of applying and holding international sport games are beneficial to future opportunity acquiring. If future studies can work on factors that influence the decision making of voting committee members and factors such as members representing candidate city or the content of presentations is.
Keywords: international sport games, IOC, candidate city

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0804106-122255
Date04 August 2006
CreatorsLin, Chung-chin
ContributorsI-heng Chen, Chin-King Jen, James C. T. Lee
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0804106-122255
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