Download or read book The Bitter-sweet Awakening written by Richard Cashman and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been increasing recognition of the importance of the impacts of mega sporting events and in 2001 the IOC initiated its Olympic Games Global Impact Project. Here is a broad-ranging analysis of the impacts of one particular Olympic and Paralympic Games.