A Sustainable Olympic Games: Applying the NEPA Framework to Reevaluate Olympic Site Selection
Introduction In the late nineteenth century, Pierre de Coubertin proposed the revival of the Olympic Games, which came to life in 1896 as the modern Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.[2] The widely popular ancient Olympic Games ceased in 393 or 394 A.D., when Roman Emperor Theodosious I rejected them as a celebration of Zeus and obstructive to the growing Christian empire.[3] When de Coubertin proposed the modern Olympic Games (the “Games”), he suggested that the heart of the Games shift from Zeus and Continue reading →