Wertheim shows how summer, 1984 was the moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. -- adapted from jacket
This book fills a long-standing gap in literature on the Olympics and will provide valuable insights for all students, scholars, policy makers and journalists interested in the Olympic Games and the wider relationship between sport, ...
Boykoff’s research, based on more than 100 interviews with anti-Olympics activists, personal experiences at protests in Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Tokyo, academic research, mass- and alternative-media coverage, and Olympic ...
The chapters in this book were published as a special issue in The International Journal of the History of Sport.
... Olympic caliber conditions . The other multi - sport events to which we send athletes include the World Univer- sity and Pan American Games . Both of these events are utilized to provide the international experience necessary to compete ...
... summer Olympic games . The United States has not hosted the summer games since 1932 in Los Angeles , and there is a feeling worldwide that it is our turn . The United States Olympic Committee will select one city to be the American ...
... games be transferred from the Soviet Union or be canceled for this year ; and Whereas the President also urged that , if the International Olympic Committee rejects such a proposal to ... summer Olympic games ; 3 3 1 2 3 4 5 ( 2 ) 93.
... Summer Olympic Games , all of our ten men's and women's squads in the team sports are qualified directly into the Olympic Games under the rules of the International Olympic Committee . THE NEXT 15 MONTHS The biggest challenge to the ...
... Summer Olympic Games . 4. To learn about famous athletes from your own country who have participated in the Summer Olympic Games in the present and past . 5. To develop a positive attitude towards good sportmanship and participation ...
In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era.