Health promotion by increasing the sports practice rate of the people is often cited as a positive impact (legacy) left after the Olympic bid and hosting competition, but an international research group in which Professor Masamitsu Kamata of the Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Tokyo participated Examining the sports practice rates of past Olympic host countries, it was found that there was no change in most countries.
According to the University of Tokyo, the research group is composed of researchers from Australia, the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Ireland, led by Professor Adrian Bowman of the University of Sydney, Australia. I checked the official documents related to the tournament.
As a result, it became clear that from the 2012 London Olympics, "health promotion by improving the sports practice rate" has come to be cited as a legacy that is expected.
Next, using data from the host city, we investigated the sports practice rate of the people for the eight competitions since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Except for the 8 Nagano Winter Games and the 1998 Beijing Games, the national sports practice rate and physical activity amount No change was seen in.
There was an increasing trend in the sports practice rate before and after the Nagano Games and the amount of physical activity before and after the Beijing Games, but there was no change in the winter sports practice rate at the Nagano Games (Winter Games), and the sports practice rate was affected by a different influence from the Games. Seems to have increased.It is believed that the Beijing Games lacked data to verify.
On the other hand, when we analyzed the tendency of Internet search in the UK for the 2012 London Games, the number of searches related to "Olympic" increased from before the Games to during the Games, and decreased sharply in about a year. On the other hand, the number of searches for "exercise" increased from before the Games to after the Games, and the increasing trend continued for several years.From this, it is possible that the "interest" in the movement of the people has increased.
From the above, in order to realize the legacy of behavior change that the Olympic Games advocate, it is necessary for the management organization, government, sponsor companies, etc. to work together strategically until after the Games.In the future, the research group needs to continuously evaluate and verify the practice of sports and physical activity of the people.
Paper information:[The Lancet] An evidence-based assessment of the impact of the Olympic Games on population levels of physical activity
