| （Department of Physical Education，Tsinghua University，Beijing 100084，China) Abstract: The authors selected the environmental protection topic about Albertville and Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games as their research subject, analyzed the course of transformation of environment strategies developed by the In-ternational Olympic Committee (IOC) as well as its attitude towards and thinking limitations in environmental protec-tion, and put forward the following opinions: After Albertville and Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games, the IOC’s economic and cultural attributes decided its responsibility for undertaking environmental protection, it requires that candidate cities provide an environmental protection strategy report, but the IOC has the following thinking limitations in environmental protection: its environmental protection strategies are imitations of other transnational organizations’; its thinking and discourses about environmental protection globalization are lagging; in the early 1990s, the IOC started to face up to environmental protection, therefore, the transformation and formation of its environmental protection strategies is a passive process; looking forward to Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022, its sustainable development conception is in conformity with Olympics Agenda 2020, together with its environmental protection and governance measures, should be an important environmental legacy left by Beijing Winter Olympic Games to the whole world.
Key words: sports management；International Olympic Committee；environment strategy；Albertville Winter Olympic Games；Lillehammer Winter Olympic Games |
