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By S. Frawley,D. Adair

The Olympic video games are the world's most complicated and demanding game mega-event to prepare. handling the Olympics is the 1st ever try and collect the world's top Olympic administration researchers in a single ebook and attracts at the newest study into the administration demanding situations confronted through the organizers and key stakeholders of the Games.

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