... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Olympic Games there was also the unprecedented case of the Netherlands Antilles, and the withdrawal of recognition of its NOC because the Netherlands annexed the Netherlands Antilles to its government, after the island gave up their ...
... Olympics support through guaranteeing $1.1 million revenues from the sale of commemorative stamps. To similar ... (Netherlands Olympic Committee 1928, p. 147), a proposal for national government to underwrite a fundraising campaign ...
The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. Is the tightly-knit subculture in danger of losing its very identity?
... 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 Summer ...
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) ...
... Olympics Global Athlete Congress in the Hague, Netherlands. The city is the seat of the Dutch parliament, also home to the UN's international Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. Special Olympics athletes from every ...