Olympic Games of Stockholm, 1912 (June 29th-July 22nd).
Author : Sveriges olympiska kommitté
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Olympics
ISBN :
Author : Sveriges olympiska kommitté
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Olympics
ISBN :
Author : Leif Yttergren
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 147660066X
King Gustaf V of Sweden inaugurated the Fifth Olympiad at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm on July 6, 1912. In the following weeks, 2,380 competitors from 27 nations representing six continents participated in well-organized competitions in perfect weather conditions. The largest Olympics yet at the time, the Stockholm Games have thus gone down in history as the Sunshine Olympics, or "the Swedish Masterpiece." Since that achievement, and despite numerous attempts by other Swedish cities, Sweden has not yet managed to host the Olympic Games again. This work examines the 1912 Stockholm Olympics from a variety of perspectives, exploring the preparations, organization, competitions, participants, and spectators, as well as the continuing significance of the 1912 Games to Sweden and to the future of the Olympic movement.
Author : Charles Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Colorado
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Author : Swedish Olympic Committee
Publisher :
Page : 1472 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
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Official presentation brochure of the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm.
Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 10,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Reference
ISBN :
The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. Much of the success is credited to the influence of Viktor Balck, who is remembered as "The Father of Swedish Sports." The 1912 Olympics also featured new innovations and events. A semiautomatic electrical timing device and a photo-finish camera were used, and the decathlon and modern pentathalon were new events. This work, the sixth in a series on the early Olympics, provides unusually extensive information on the sites, dates, competitors, and nations of the Stockholm games. Results for each event, including cycling, diving, fencing, rowing and sculling, shooting, tennis, water polo, and yachting, among others, are provided.
Author : Haydn Middleton
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 25,34 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781432902650
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 : Thierry Terret
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1135760888
The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in post-war European culture. Both are neglected topics. Sport, Militarism and the Great War deals with four significant aspects of the relationship between sport and war before, during and immediately after the 1914-1918 conflict. First, it explores the creation and consolidation of the cult of martial heroism and chivalric self-sacrifice in the pre-war era. Second, it examines the consequences of the mingling of soldiers from various nations on later sport. Third, it considers the role of the Great War in the transformation of the leisure of the masses. Finally, it examines the links between war, sport and male socialisation. The Great War contributed to a redefinition of European masculinity in the post-war period. The part sport played in this redefinition receives attention. Sport, Militarism and the Great War is in two parts: the Continental (Part I) and the "Anglo-Saxon" (Part II). No study has adopted this bilateral approach to date. Thus, in conception and execution, it is original. With its originality of content and the approaching centenary of the advent of the Great War in 2014, it is anticipated that the book will capture a wide audience. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Baseball
ISBN :
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,29 MB
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0593843282
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