Multi-sport Event - Audience

Audience

Since the establishment of the Olympics, most serial multi-sport events have been organized for specific audiences and participating countries or communities. These affiliations include:

  • regional, such as the East Asian Games and the South American Games
  • political, such as the Spartakiad and the GANEFO
  • historic or historicultural roots, such as the Commonwealth Games (for members of the Commonwealth of Nations) and the Jeux de la Francophonie (for members of La Francophonie)
  • ethnocultural or ethnoreligious, such as the Pan-Armenian Games (for ethnic communities of Armenians both in Armenia and in other countries) and the Maccabiah Games (for communities of Jews of both ethnic and religious origins)
  • religious, such as the Islamic Solidarity Games and the previously mentioned Maccabiah Games
  • occupational, such as the Military World Games, the World Police and Fire Games and the Universiade
  • physical disabilities, such as the Paralympics, the Deaflympics and the Special Olympics World Games
  • human age, such as the World Masters Games, Commonwealth Youth Games and the Senior Olympics
  • gender and sexual orientation, such as the Women's Islamic Games and the Gay Games

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Famous quotes containing the word audience:

    “But when we play the fool, how wide
    The theatre expands! beside,
    How long the audience sits before us!
    How many prompters! what a chorus!”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “Today’s comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an “act” and he told the audience, “This is my act.” Today’s comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he’s telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.”
    —Lenny Bruce (1925–1966)

    “The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.”
    —Viola Spolin (b. 1911)