Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yükseköğrenimi Gören Öğrencilerin İstanbul Kentinin Olimpiyat Oyunlarını Düzenleme Hakkını Kazanamama Nedenlerini Değerlendirmeleri

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the reasons behind the city of Istanbul’s failure to win the right to hold the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games against its competitor cities, despite each time being candidate to hold the Olympic Games from the viewpoint of students studying at higher education of physical education and sports. The study group consists of a total of 380 students; 250 from the University of Kırıkkale, Vocational College of Physical Education and Sports and 130 from the same university’s Faculty of Education, Department of Physical Education and Sports Teaching. As a basis for the survey to be implemented to the students, an item pool concerning the reasons of losses was built through the news and comments which appeared in the press following the voting performed for each Games, statements given by authorities and performance of content analyses of the opinions taken from experts. A survey form of 15 items containing the reasons of loss were implemented to the survey group of 380 persons and following the removal of inconsistent of survey forms, 318 surveys were determined as evaluable. In the analysis of the obtained data, the statistical package program titled SPSS 11.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) was used. During the development process of the survey, a validity and reliability study was made and the survey liability was found as .7638. Factor analysis, along with the reliability study, was made on 15 articles for its structural validity in selecting the suitable items for the survey. When the Total Variance Explained and Communalities Tables are examined, it is observed that the analyzed items K=15 (variable) are grouped under 6 factors whose self value are higher than 1. the variance explained by these 6 factors concerning the scale is 60,73%. In data analyses, statistical operations frequency and percentage were used and the interdependency of the factors were tested at the level of .05 with x² (Chi square). According to the knowledge we obtained through our study, the reasons behind the city of Istanbul’s failure to be granted the right to hold the 2000, 2004 or 2008 Olympic Games are; the lack of experience in major caliber sports organizations(%55,3), the International Olympics Committee’s failure to carry out a neutral and objective evaluation(%49,1), inadequate facilities-accommodation(%49,1), as a country our insufficient level in some sports branches(%43,4), as a country, not being at the European Union standards in human rights and democratization(%43,1), as city and nation, not having the necessary Olympic culture, the lack of lobbying, advertisement and promotion, lacks of landscape planning and infrastructure, political and economical reasons, etc. On the other hand reasons arising due to our cultural structure, religious reasons, inadequacy of telecommunication services, terror-safety factors, and lack of transportation means were not accepted by our sample audience as reasons behind Istanbul’s failure to hold the Olympic Games.