This book explores the biggest sporting event in the world through the lens in which most people witness it: the media.
Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes and failures? This book examines the legitimacy and accountability of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
... Olympics of 1928 would answer requests for a neutral host. Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, was selected to host in 1928 mainly because the Dutch had been neutral during the war. This decision process was reflected in the ...
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) ...
This is a cutting-edge text which responds to the increasing importance of sport policy and its relation to public investment.
... Netherlands Olympic Committee . 1928. Official Report of the Olympic Games of 1928. Ed . G. Van Rossem . Available at http://olympic-museum.de/o-re ports / report1928.htm ( accessed November 12 , 2006 ) . Norton , Frank . 2007. Lenovo ...
... Olympics . For instance , the Netherlands won in four speed skating events in Sochi all of the available gold , silver , and bronze medals . The country leads the all - time Winter Olympics speed skating ranking , having won one - fifth ...
... Olympics , more than any other nation , and Great Britain has hosted three Summer Olympics , all in London . Three ... Netherlands , South Korea , Spain , the Soviet Union and Sweden . In 2016 , Rio de Janeiro will host the first ...
... Netherlands in front of the world”.72 In addition to the articles and advertisements in daily newspapers, two thousand cinema theatres across the Netherlands featured a short film about the 1924 Paris Olympics during which a collection ...
... Netherlands Olympic Committee 1928, p. 149). At the Paris 1924 Olympics, organisers even received 1% of the sale of tobacco by licensed vendors (Comité Olympique Français 1924, p. 825). Later, commemorative coin programmes would become ...