Author : Haydn Middleton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Olympics
ISBN : 9780431191652
Which Winter Games were held on imported snow? Which golfer walked to the medal ceremony on his hands? Will BMX biking ever be an Olympic sport? Find the answers to these questions and more as you read about the Games as we know them today, including the Paralympics and the difficult process of choosing host cities.
Author : Michael Llewellyn Smith
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : 9781861977090
A rich and entertaining work of history, Olympics in Athens 1896 brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in competing countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.
Author : Richard D. Mandell
Publisher : Blacktoad Publishing
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 1976
Category :
ISBN : 0957059108
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252070464
Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
Author : John E. Findling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Jeux olympiques - Histoire - Encyclopédies
ISBN : 9780275976590
This unique book provides information on the events surrounding the Olympics, such as political controversies, scandals, tragedies, economic issues, and peripheral incidents.
Author : Vassil Girginov
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780415346047
This new student textbook explores the history and meaning of the modern Olympic Games, providing a comprehensive overview of 'Olympism' from the Ancient Greeks origins through to the beginnings of the International Olympic Committee.
Author : Vassil Girginov
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780415346030
This student textbook explores the history and meaning of the modern Olympic Games, providing a comprehensive overview of 'Olympism' from the Ancient Greeks origins through to the beginnings of the International Olympic Committee.
Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0393254119
“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. 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) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Author : David C. Young
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801872075
Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.
Author : John J. MacAloon
Publisher :
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780415390774
This Great Symbol is the definitive study of the origins of the modern Olympic Games and of their founder, Pierre de Coubertin, whose ideological stamp the Olympics still bear. Behind this fascinating blend of biography and history lies an impressive framework of cultural, social, and psychological theories skilfully employed to interpret the creation and symbolism of the modern Olympic Games. Hailed as both a classic in sport history and as a paradigmatic study in the anthropology of the past, This Great Symbol helped launch the new collaboration between historians and cultural anthropologists that continues to mark the human sciences worldwide. For this 25th anniversary edition, Professor MacAloon adds a new preface evaluating subsequent scholarship on Coubertin and the Olympic origins and a highly personal afterword describing the impact of This Great Symbol on his own subsequent career as an Olympic anthropologist and cultural performance theory. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
