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The History of the Olympic Games
Author | : International Olympic Committee |
Publsiher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-05-27 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781787397903 |
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Published in association with the International Olympic Committee, The History of the Olympic Games: Faster, Higher, Stronger brings the glorious story of the world's biggest sporting event to life. Featuring hundreds of stunning photographs from every iteration of the modern summer Games, as well as rare documents and memorabilia from the archives of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, this is a celebration of sporting history like no other. From its humble beginnings under the auspices of Pierre de Coubertin to the modern extravaganza that has showcased legendary athletes such as Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Jesse Owens and many more, every edition of the Games is rendered here in fascinating detail, alongside rarely seen artworks and artefacts. Revised, updated and in an exciting new format, The History of the Olympic Games: Faster, Higher, Stronger is the definitive illustrated volume on the world's greatest sporting spectacle. Written with the full co-operation of the International Olympic Committee.
Onward to the Olympics
Author | : Gerald P. Schaus,Stephen R. Wenn |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2009-08-02 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781554587797 |
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The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides both an overview and an array of insights into aspects of the Games’ history. Leading North American archaeologists and historians of sport explore the origins of the Games, compare the ancient and the modern, discuss the organization and financing of such massive athletic festivals, and examine the participation ,or the troubling lack of it, by women. Onward to the Olympics bridges the historical divide between the ancient and the modern and concludes with a thought-provoking final essay that attempts to predict the future of the Olympics over the twenty-first century.
A Brief History of the Olympic Games
Author | : David C. Young |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780470777756 |
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For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.
The Games A Global History of the Olympics
Author | : David Goldblatt |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2016-07-26 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780393254112 |
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“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
The Olympics
Author | : Allen Guttmann |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0252070461 |
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Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
A Political History Of The Olympic Games
Author | : David B Kanin |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2019-08-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780429724312 |
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The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie
Power Games
Author | : Jules Boykoff |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781784780739 |
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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
History of the Olympic Games
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Author | : Katharine Marsh (Editor) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Olympic games (Ancient) |
ISBN | : 1803081775 |
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