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The harrowing, triumphant tale of a cyclist's journey to Olympic victory and the price he paid to achieve greatness. Marty Nothstein, one of the greatest cyclists of all time, arrived at the 1996 Olympic Games a heavy favorite. In the match sprint a…
Sport is often at the centre of battles for rights to inclusion linked to class, race and gender, and this book explores struggles centred on disability in different cultural settings in Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It challenges…
Examines the development of the Paralympics and asks whether it is justified in describing the Games as empowerment of the disabled community. Using ethnographic research, this book discusses the economic, social, and political processes shaping the…
Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community? Like many other contemporary sporting institutions, the Paralympic Games have made the transition from pastime to spectacle, and the profile of athletes with disabilities has been incre…
What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games? With the summer Olympics' return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of Pagan Holiday brings attitude, erudition, an…
When London hosted the hugely successful Olympic Games in 2012, the updated edition of British Olympic Heroes became the perfect and popular guide to Britain's greatest Olympians, past and present.
In this open access book the cost and revenue overruns of Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to PyeongChang 2018 from eight years before the Games to Games‐time are investigated to provide a base for future host cities. The authors evaluated the d…
The Greek Olympic Games went on for more than 1000 years, and there were more or less large and celebrated local athletic contests all over the Greek world. This collection of essays seeks to give an idea of the range of these festivals, and to cont…
How one man brought the Olympics to Los Angeles, fueling the city's urban transformation. Dreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depression helped fuel the city…
For the first time, Jack McCallum uncovers all the secrets of the most famous sports team in history: the US Olympic selection for basketball in 1992. Filled with interviews with current and past players, McCallum outlines the Dream Team phenomenon…
Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation. Who was the first Canadian to Win an Olympic Gold Medal? When Mark Hebscher was asked this simple trivia question, he had no idea…
The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide…
Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 focuses upon the presentation and descriptions of identity that are presented through the depictions of the Olympics in the national press. This book breaks Britain down into its four nations and presents the…
This book focuses on the processes of documenting the Beijing Olympics - ranging from the visual (television and film) to radio and the written word - and the meanings generated by such representations. What were the 'key' stories and how were they…
In this handy guide--the only one like it--Sophie Delaplaine shows what Novice Youth Rowing is all about and how best to prepare for it. She explains--simply--everything you need to know, from the categories of rowing, the lingo and the "heat sheets…
Quirky and funny, while also being a serious account, this entertaining little paperback takes a historical event, THE FIRST EVER OLIMPICK GAMES, and looks at what it reveals about life in England in the seventeenth century: the history, monarchy, r…
The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim ups…
La incre ble e inspiradora historia de una joven extraordinaria. «Yusra, no podr amos estar m s orgullosos de tu valor, tu resistencia y el gran ejemplo que das. .-Barack Obama. En verano de 2015, Yusra, de diecisiete a os, y su hermana ma…
Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies. BACKCOVER: Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney…
Just in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi What makes an inspiring Olympic moment? Is it the years of hard work and sacrifice that culminate in a gold medal? Is it suffering an injury but finishing the race? Is it overcoming a stereotype and…
The Untold Story of the Founding of the Olympic Games...In ancient Greece and across the Mediterranean, kingdoms strive for dominance. The great powers of Carthage and Egypt look on with avarice as the might of the Greeks is spent warring between th…
Just in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi "Olympic Gold" Full Color Edition] is an incredible collection of inspiring, motivational and Insightful quotes from Olympic medal winners including Michael Phelps, Mia Hamm, Mohammed Ali, Carl Lewi…
Already the world has seen the political, economic, and cultural significance of hosting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing-in policies instituted and altered, positions softened, projects undertaken. But will the Olympics make a lasting difference? This…
Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the eighteen African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South. Set against the turbulen…
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the largest, most expensive, and most widely watched event of the modern Olympic era. But did China present itself as a responsible host and an emergent international power, much like Japan during the 1964…
Given the many changes that have occurred in the Olympic games during the past century it seems reasonable to ask if this global event has a future and, if so, what form it might take. With this larger issue in mind, the authors of "Post-Olympism?"…
The Olympic ideal and the Olympic Games stand as symbols of global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through the medium of sports. However, throughout the twentieth century, Olympic rhetoric was often confronted…
The book focuses on the Irish and Irish diasporal involvement in the Olympic Games. It discusses in detail the sporting involvement but, even more so, the political and national battles which accompanied the Irish Olympic journey prior to independen…
Designer Notebook with 150 lined pages, 6" x 9". Glossy softcover, perfect for everyday use. Perfectly spaced between lines to allow plenty of room to write. Wild Pages Press are publishers of unique journals, school exercise books, college or unive…
This book seeks to present how Claudia, living in London and being so close to the Olympic Park felt inspired to be part of the Games and all other associated events. Firstly, the book covers the procurement of tickets to attend with her husband and…
The African American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century is one of the most important stories in American history. With all the information available, however, it is easy for even the most enthusiastic reader to be overwhelmed. In Ret…
Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competition…
International media assistance is a small but important form of international democracy-promotion aid. Media assistance boomed after the 1989 transitions in Central Europe, but now flows to virtually all regions of the world. Today the media assista…
From track and field to swimming and diving, and of course basketball and soccer, Indiana University Olympians celebrates over a century of Indiana University Olympic competitors. Beginning in 1904, at the 3rd summer games in St. Louis, IU's first O…
The Olympic Games have evolved into the most prestigious sport event on the planet. As a consequence, each Games generates more and more interest from the academic community. Sociology, politics, geography and history have all played a part in helpi…
The foremost sporting event in the world, the Olympic Games have grown from a quaint idea in the 1890s to a major world happening. This unique book shows the historical context in which each of the Olympic Games has taken place. Divided into section…
