Book Description
Compilation of the most important documents and speeches by Pierre de Coubertin on Olympism and the Olympic Games.
Author : Pierre de Coubertin
Publisher : Lausanne, Switzerland : International Olympic Committee
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Coubertin, Pierre de
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Compilation of the most important documents and speeches by Pierre de Coubertin on Olympism and the Olympic Games.
Author : International Olympic Committee
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 1933
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Author : Jean-Loup Chappelet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,57 MB
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134083688
When the athletes enter the stadium and the Olympic flame is lit, the whole world watches. Billions will continue to follow the events and to share in the athletes' joys and sorrows for the next sixteen days. Readers of this book, however, will watch forthcoming editions of the Olympic Games in a completely different light. Unlike many historical or official publications and somewhat biased commercial works, it provides -- in a clear, readable form -- informative and fascinating material on many aspects of what Olympism is all about: its history, its organization and its actors. Although public attention is often drawn to various issues surrounding this planetary phenomenon -- whether concerning the International Olympic Committee, the athletes, the host cities or even the scandals that have arisen -- the Olympic System as such is relatively little known. What are its structures, its goals, its resources? How is it governed and regulated? What about doping, gigantism, violence in the stadium? In addition to providing a wealth of information on all these subjects, the authors also show how power, money and image have transformed Olympism over the decades. They round off the work with thought-provoking reflections regarding the future of the Olympic System and the obstacles it must overcome in order to survive.
Author : Vassil Girginov
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 25,64 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 : Ryan Gauthier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 13,63 MB
Release : 2018-06-13
Category :
ISBN : 9781138318618
The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes and failures? This book examines the legitimacy and accountability of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This non-governmental organisation wields extraordinary power, but there is no democratic basis for its authority. This study questions the supremacy of the IOC, arguing that there is a significant accountability deficit. Investigating the conduct of the IOC from an international legal perspective, the book moves beyond a critique of the IOC to explore potential avenues for reform, means of improving democratic procedures and increasing accountability. If the Olympics are to continue to be our most celebrated sporting event, those who organise them must be answerable to the citizens that they can potentially harm as well as benefit. Full of original insights into the inner workings of the IOC, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the Olympics, sport policy, sport management, sport mega-events, and the law.
Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,69 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 : Richard Espy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,69 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520043954
Author : Kristine Toohey
Publisher : CABI
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 2007-11-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1845933559
This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the Olympic Games using a multi-disciplinary social science approach. This revised edition contains much new data relating to the Sydney 2000 Games and their aftermath; and preparations for Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Games. The book is broad-ranging and independent in its coverage, and includes the use of drugs, sex testing, accusations of power abuse among members of the IOC, the Games as a stage for political protest, media-related controversies, economic costs and benefits of the Games and historical conflicts between organizers and host communities.
Author : David C. Young
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 22,14 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 : Andras Patay-Horvath
Publisher : Archaeolingua
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 12,50 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
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ISBN : 9789639911727
Even in antiquity it was debated when and why the Olympic Games had been established and by whom. Modern scholarship has also advanced a great number of hypotheses on the origins of the games (ranging from funeral games to harvest ceremonies/vegetation magic or even initiation rites), but a truly convincing reconstruction has not yet been formulated. The present volume off ers a new comprehensive explanation for the phenomenon and argues that the Games evolved from hunting and from animal ceremonialism observed among various hunting groups. This explanation is admittedly a hypothetical one, based mainly on the interpretation of the archaeological material and some ethnographic parallels, but conjecture is necessary due to the complete absence of contemporary written evidence. In addition, although it is essentially a simple theory that simultaneously explains many perplexing features of the Games in a coherent way, it must remain without definitive proof, as with all other previous similar explanations. "Anyone who takes issue is allowed a simple remedy: to off er something better, something that is coherent and constructive as an alternative."