(School of Management，Beijing Sport University，Beijing 100084，China) Abstract: The city hosting the Olympic Games are practitioners of sustainable development of Olympic Games and the creation and maintenance of the Olympic legacy. Focusing on the dilemma and opportunity for Olympic city, and interviewing with the world-wide famous Olympic researcher, Susan Brownell, this study deeply analyzes and discusses eight themes around the following topics: the essential changes on the reform of Olympic Games, the in-creasing attention on urban development for IOC, the logic behind the East Asian cities continually hosted the Olympics, the Olympic city and interest-related objects hosted the Olympics, the objective cognition about “anti-Olympics Games”, the solidification trend and pioneering attempt for mega-city, the inspiration from success of Los Angel’s greatness once again, and the future Olympic dreams for city in China, so as to inspiring the aca-demic sparks of deeply contemplating the sustainable development of Olympic city and the Olympic Games.
Key words: Olympics；Olympic Games；Olympic city；urban development；Susan Brownell；interview transcript |
