ABSTRACT
The sporting event is not only a platform for building a legacy for tomorrow, whether it be soft or hard. Before contributing to the future, an event inherits a sport’s, and for that matter a society’s, past. This legacy discourse, as John MacAloon has written, is perhaps more complex than we realize in regards to the interpretations of what the past brings to the present – héritage – versus what the present can contribute to the future in the form of legacy (MacAloon 2008, pp. 2066–7).
