and awareness of several high-ranking officials who were directly involved in the planning of the Final Four in Atlanta. Therefore, this study benefits from its access to high-level managers, whose positions in the NCAA and ABHC contribute valuable insight into the ways in which legacy planning was
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important to an exploration of mass sport participation legacies, because many studies recommend that stakeholder organizations take rational and logical approaches to legacy planning and event leveraging, such as developing a shared vision for sport participation legacy and working collaboratively to
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stakeholders are involved in making decisions about Olympic legacy, planning and sustaining legacy can be considered a governance issue ( Girginov, 2011 ). Scholars (e.g., Leopkey & Parent, 2015 ) have identified the importance of designing and implementing appropriate legacy governance structures and
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and the legacy plan impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, in a fitting end to this summary section, and to the special issue, Kleimann raises a very interesting question about whether sport PRs should go back to normal once sport organizations are able to resume play and business practice
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be leveraged ( Smith, 2014 ). The types of benefits sought after through leveraging vary, but generally target the achievement of sport, economic, or social outcomes ( Chalip, 2006 ; Chalip & Leyns, 2002 ). The leveraging approach marks a shift away from previous legacy planning characterized by
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; Dickson et al., 2011 ). Preuss ( 2007 ) summarized this idea and proposed three dichotomous characteristics for a sport mega-event legacy: planned–unplanned, positive–negative, and tangible–intangible. (p. 211). The literature has not reported any study that separates planned from unplanned legacies. In
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that they will do so automatically. Smith and Fox ( 2007 ) have gone further to suggest the adoption of a more event-themed—as opposed to event-led—approach to bottom-up legacy planning, where nonhost regions can use the event to augment existing programs and resources. The second key point for event
