Olympic politics
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Olympic politics
Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-254) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a study of the Olympic Games in political terms, examining the history of the Games from their revival by Baron de Couberin, himself a political animal, in the 1890s through the cities and turbulent national and international issues that have shaped them, to speculation on their future. The author emphasizes the inter-relationship between national attitudes to competitive, world-scale sport and political events and processes, calling upon examples of such issues as apartheid in South Africa, the division of the Korean peninsula and the two Germanies. At the same time, he argues that countries often engage in such contests as bidding for the right to hold the Games in one of their cities for reasons quite unconnected with sport. The books ends by posing questions about the "gigantism" of the Games and queries whether they have outgrown their usefulness.
Table of Contents
- Baron Pierre de Coubertin and the revival of the Games
- the primacy of politics in the Olympic movement
- power and authority in the Olympic movement
- financing the Games
- bidding for the Games - the British experience
- the Moscow Games of 1980
- Los Angeles 1984
- Seoul 1988
- Barcelona 1992
- the Olympics in the Third Millennium.
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