Abstract
After Algeria won to host the nineteenth edition of the Mediterranean Games for the year 2021, all financial resources were mobilized to ensure the success of organizing the Games. After the outbreak of the pandemic that plunged the world into overwhelming chaos and disrupted all humanitarian activities, major sporting events were also subject to change their dates. The Mediterranean Games were postponed to 2022 due to the change of the Olympic Games Tokyo to summer 2021. This change has had material repercussions, represented by an increase in government financial spending by the organizers and moral repercussions on the level of psychological and physical preparations of athletes, and all these imbalances pose a major challenge to the success of the Games. Through this study, we consider the implications of this situation by communicating with the Organizing Committee and the Athletes Committee to assess the level of material and moral damages that resulted from this change in timing with the presence of uncertainty controlling the thinking of all parties and imposed by the pandemic situation that plunged everyone into a state of chaos.
Presenters
Nassereddine KesriProfessor, Faculty of Physical Education and Sports, University of Algers, Alger, Algeria
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2021 Special Focus—Sport and Society in Crisis
KEYWORDS
PANDEMIC COVID 19, MEDITERRANEAN GAMES, MATERIAL AND LOGISTICAL EXPENSES, MORAL IMPLICATION
