Bibliographic record
Abstract
When you are lucky enough to be inside the Olympic bubble, the Games can often seem about finding the best hockey tickets, getting into the cool parties to hang with the athletes and celebs or just getting a chance to watch your friends break their personal records for ingesting champagne and beer over 17 days. (2) Introduction On February 12, 2010, her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaelle Jean, the Governor General of Canada, officially opened the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia. Millions of Canadians tuned-in to watch the elaborate ceremony and to see Canadian athletic heroes light the Olympic cauldron. After months of speculation and rumours, it was Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky who ignited the flame that would burn throughout the seventeen-day sporting extravaganza. Thousands lined the rain-slicked streets, cheering as Gretzky travelled via pick-up truck from BC Place to the water's edge of Coal Harbour to the Olympic cauldron. The rain had not dampened the spirits of Olympic supporters as they relished in the glow of the flame that had been ignited in Olympia, Greece over one hundred days earlier. Yet the following morning, Olympic tourists and Canadian citizens awoke to a surprising development. Overnight, a chain-link fence with a banner had been erected around the Olympic cauldron. Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (VANOC) officials claimed that they needed to protect the structure from potential vandals. Despite the fact that VANOC officials had long argued that the flame, which had travelled across the entire nation, symbolized peace and unity, the flame was now inaccessible to the general population. One spectator argued, It's horrible that local people paid for the Olympics but can't approach the (3) Yet not everyone was prevented from experiencing the flame without an obstruction before them. Members of the Olympic Family and accredited media personnel freely roamed within the barrier. They, unlike the rest of the general population were not considered a 'threat' to the sacred flame. Yet for everyone else in Vancouver, this fence represented more than the protection of the flame from those who would do it harm; it symbolized that not everyone is welcome within the inner sanctums of the Olympic Movement. Olympic Symbolism The modern Olympic Games have been built on a foundation of (4) From its inception in 1894 at the Sorbonne Conference in Paris, symbols were interconnected to the Games to make connections to the past that would trigger a sense of nostalgia, importance, and history. It was not by chance that Baron Pierre de Coubertin chose to play the Olympic Hymn during the conference; he knew the importance of creating and utilizing symbols to foster human experiences. So deep was his belief in the importance of symbols, that in 1924, the Baron criticized the organizer of the 1920 Games in Antwerp, Belgium because of its lack of powerful symbolism. (5) Throughout history, the gatekeepers and architects of the Olympic Movement have cultivated symbols that evoke intense meanings to people throughout the world. The most recognizable of these symbols includes the Olympic rings, medal ceremonies (including the playing of national anthems), and the Olympic flame. As Blumer has suggested, humans act towards things on the basis of the meanings that these things have for them. (6) People's social interactions related to these and other Olympic symbols have helped to foster their passionate feelings about the Olympic Games. These feelings are further intensified by the marketing tools of the IOC, local organizing committees, sponsors, and the media. The Olympic flame has come to be one of the strongest symbols that people relate to within the Olympic Movement, and VANOC readily used the flame to connect with Canadian citizens. The Olympic Flame The Olympic flame has become one of the central symbols associated with the Olympic Games: Of all the ceremonial rites surrounding an Olympic festival, the lighting of the sacred flame that consecrates all the events that will unfold over the following two weeks is perhaps the epitome. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.010 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".