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Food Provision at the Olympic Games in the New Millennium: A Meta-narrative Review
Sports Medicine - Open, Vol.9(1), pp.1-17
2023
PMID: 37084149
Abstract
Background and objective: The objective of this meta-narrative review was to identify, organise and map the literature on food provision and nutrition support at the summer and winter Olympic and Paralympic Games (OPG) and similar major competition events over the past 21 years. This builds on a comprehensive update of a previous historical review of the evolution of food provision at the summer Olympic Games up until 2000 and considers contemporary issues such as the global pandemic and sustainability goals.
Methods: A range of sources included primary research and review articles, edited book chapters, theses, conference papers or abstracts, International Olympic Committee reports, Organising Committees' food vision and post-Games reports, independent professional reports, and media and periodicals including magazines and trade journals. The search strategy included four steps: a database search that complied with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews criteria, a search of the Olympic Studies Centre, a review of reference lists for unpublished sources, and a Google search for additional media reports. The researchers followed an iterative process where emerging narratives were discussed, recorded and refined as data were extracted.
Results: The data from 229 records were extracted into a spreadsheet and grouped according to the type of evidence and specific event, then presented chronologically to give a perspective on the development of food provision and nutrition support. Eleven narratives emerged from the data extraction: 'description of meals, menus and food', 'vision of the food provision', 'food safety', 'catering company involvement', 'sponsorship or contracts with food companies', 'athlete perspective', 'stakeholder perspective', 'athlete food intake,' 'nutrition input in food provision', 'food environment' and 'sustainability'.
Conclusion: Results suggest that athletes' dining expectations, organising committee budgets, expert input and current global trends have led to food delivery changes. The OPG food environment has the capacity to positively influence the dietary choices of athletes and teams, while evolving to meet contemporary global challenges such as COVID-19 and sustainability targets.
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- Title
- Food Provision at the Olympic Games in the New Millennium: A Meta-narrative Review
- Authors
- Fiona E Pelly (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nutrition & DieteticsJudith Tweedie (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Nutrition & DieteticsHelen O'Connor (Author) - The University of Sydney
- Publication details
- Sports Medicine - Open, Vol.9(1), pp.1-17
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Date published
- 2023
- DOI
- 10.1186/s40798-023-00567-7
- ISSN
- 2198-9761; 2199-1170
- PMID
- 37084149
- Copyright note
- © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Grant note
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health - Nutrition & Dietetics
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99719298602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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