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white elephant stadiums: a standalone construct

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white elephantstadiums1 CONSTRUCTWhite elephant stadiumsALM · SPORT MANAGEMENT

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Sport management

costly mega-event venues left underused after the event, and strategies host cities use to avoid them.

In sport management, white elephant stadiums refers to costly mega-event venues left underused after the event, and strategies host cities use to avoid them. This meaning comes from Alm (2014) in Leisure Studies.[1]

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  1. Alm, J., Solberg, H. A., Storm, R. K., & Jakobsen, T. G. (2014). Hosting major sports events: the challenge of taming white elephants. Leisure Studies, 35(5), 564-582. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2014.994550

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