Listening to community voices – Athlone and Green Point residents’ views on the location of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™ Stadium in Cape Town

Abstract

Sport - especially high-performance sport - is a fascination that is used as a platform for social concerns. This is the basis for the different interests in active and passive sport and the state interest in elite sport. In most countries, top-level sport is a national concern: States, for example, train their athletes in national training centers, support their sports associations in international competitions or promote applications for major sporting events. The contributions of this volume give a well-founded insight into the organization of high performance sports and show the different ways of selected states