Los Angeles And The Summer Olympic Games

Author : Eva Kassens Noor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030385538

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Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games by Eva Kassens Noor Pdf

This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and by analyzing the concurrent planning process for the 2028 Olympics. The author unravels the conditions that make (or do not make) LA28’s argument “we have staged the Games before, we can do it again” compelling. Setting the bid’s promises into the contemporary local and global mega-event contexts, the author analyzes why LA won the bids, how those wins allowed LA to negotiate concessions with the IOC and NOC, and how legacies were planned, executed, and ultimately evolved. The author concludes with a prediction which 2028 legacy promises might and might not be fulfilled given the local and international Olympic contexts.

Author : Eva Kassens Noor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1013272803

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Los Angeles and the Summer Olympic Games by Eva Kassens Noor Pdf

This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and by analyzing the concurrent planning process for the 2028 Olympics. The author unravels the conditions that make (or do not make) LA28's argument "we have staged the Games before, we can do it again" compelling. Setting the bid's promises into the contemporary local and global mega-event contexts, the author analyzes why LA won the bids, how those wins allowed LA to negotiate concessions with the IOC and NOC, and how legacies were planned, executed, and ultimately evolved. The author concludes with a prediction which 2028 legacy promises might and might not be fulfilled given the local and international Olympic contexts. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : Richard B. Perelman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : OCLC:18687683

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Olympic Retrospective by Richard B. Perelman Pdf

Author : L. Jon Wertheim
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781328637246

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Glory Days by L. Jon Wertheim Pdf

A rollicking guided tour of one extraordinary summer, when some of the most pivotal and freakishly coincidental stories all collided and changed the way we think about modern sports The summer of 1984 was a watershed moment in the birth of modern sports when the nation watched Michael Jordan grow from college basketball player to professional athlete and star. That summer also saw ESPN's rise to media dominance as the country's premier sports network and the first modern, commercialized, profitable Olympics. Magic Johnson and Larry Bird's rivalry raged, Martina Navratilova and John McEnroe reigned in tennis, and Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon made pro wrestling a business, while Donald Trump pierced the national consciousness as a pro football team owner. It was an awakening in the sports world, a moment when sports began to morph into the market-savvy, sensationalized, moneyed, controversial, and wildly popular arena we know today. In the tradition of Bill Bryson's One Summer: America, 1927, L. Jon Wertheim captures these 90 seminal days against the backdrop of the nostalgia-soaked 1980s, to show that this was the year we collectively traded in our ratty Converses for a pair of sleek, heavily branded, ingeniously marketed Nikes. This was the year that sports went big-time.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773632773

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NOlympians by Jules Boykoff Pdf

NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond investigates the intersection of the global rise of anti-Olympics activism and the declining popularity of hosting of the Games. The Olympics were once buoyed by myths of luminous prosperity and upticks in tourism and jobs, but in recent years these assurances have been debunked. Now more than ever, it’s clear that the Olympics have transmogrified into a political-economic juggernaut that arrives with displacement, expanded policing, and anti-democratic backroom deals. Jules Boykoff – a former professional soccer player who represented the US Olympic soccer team – zooms in on Los Angeles, where the Democratic Socialists of America have launched the NOlympics LA campaign ahead of the 2028 Summer Games. Boykoff shows how DSA-LA’s anti-Olympics activism fits with the resurgence of socialism in the US and beyond. Boykoff’s research, based on more than 100 interviews with anti-Olympics activists, personal experiences at protests in Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Tokyo, academic research, mass- and alternative-media coverage, and Olympic archives, is the backbone for this story of activists fighting against the odds and embracing the transformative politics of democratic socialism.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Government publications
ISBN : PURD:32754077072027

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1984 Summer Olympic Games by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Organizations Pdf

Author : Barry Siegel
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520298583

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Dreamers and Schemers by Barry Siegel Pdf

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’s transformation from a seedy frontier village to a world-famous metropolis. Leading that pursuit was the “Prince of Realtors,” William May (Billy) Garland, a prominent figure in early Los Angeles. In important respects, the story of Billy Garland is the story of Los Angeles. After arriving in Southern California in 1890, he and his allies drove much of the city’s historic expansion in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Then, from 1920 to 1932, he directed the city’s bid for the 1932 Olympic Games. Garland’s quest to host the Olympics provides an unusually revealing window onto a particular time, place, and way of life. Reconstructing the narrative from Garland’s visionary notion to its consequential aftermath, Barry Siegel shows how one man’s grit and imagination made California history.

Author : Zander Hollander
Publisher : Signet
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1984-04-03
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : 0451128850

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Los Angeles, 1984 by Zander Hollander Pdf

Author : Bob Knotts
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Olympic games (Ancient)
ISBN : 0516210645

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The Summer Olympics by Bob Knotts Pdf

Describes the history, ideals, events, and heroes of the Olympic Games, with an emphasis on the Summer Olympics.

Author : Hugh Harlan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : LCCN:32022299

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History of Olympic Games by Hugh Harlan Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210024767699

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1984 Summer Olympics by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce, Transportation, and Tourism Pdf

Author : John Horne,Garry Whannel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000049398

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Understanding the Olympics by John Horne,Garry Whannel Pdf

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical, and economic context of the Games. This thoroughly revised and updated edition discusses recent attempts at future proofing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the face of growing global anti-Olympic activism, the changing geo-political context within which the Olympics take place, and the Olympic histories of the next three cities to host the Games – Tokyo (2020), Paris (2024), and Los Angeles (2028) – as well as the legacy of the London (2012) Olympics. For the first time, this new edition introduces the reader to the emergence of ‘other Games’ associated with the IOC – the Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Youth Olympics. It also features a full Olympic history timeline, many new photographs, refreshed suggestions for further reading, and revised illustrations. The most up-to-date and authoritative textbook available on the Olympic Games, Understanding the Olympics is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympics or the wider relationship between sport and society.

Author : Marie J. MacNee,Rebecca Nelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Large type books
ISBN : UCSC:32106013198111

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The Olympic Factbook by Marie J. MacNee,Rebecca Nelson Pdf

This is the first edition of the Olympic Factbook that is exclusively devoted to those games played in warm weather or indoors. The Factbook profiles the atheletes to watch in 1996 and additionally, reports on atheletes who have passed into Olympic legend. The Factbook is one convenient reference source to turn to before, during, or after the competitions, or whenever you feel like looking up the facts.

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : University-Press.org
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 1230620567

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Host Cities of the Summer Olympic Games by Source Wikipedia Pdf

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 253. Chapters: London, Rome, Paris, Los Angeles, Berlin, Mexico City, Athens, Tokyo, Barcelona, Munich, St. Louis, Missouri, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Moscow, Atlanta, Rio de Janeiro, Sydney, Helsinki, Antwerp, Melbourne, Montreal, Beijing, Seoul. Excerpt: London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 17th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly. London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is the world's largest financial centre alongside New York, has the largest city GDP in Europe and is home to the headquarters of more than 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies. It has the most international visitors of any city in the world. London Heathrow is the world's busiest airport by number of international passengers. London's 43 universities form the largest concentration of higher education institutions in Europe. In 2012 London will become the first city to host the Summer Olympic Games three times. London has a diverse range of peoples, cultures and religions, and more than 300 languages are spoken within its boundaries. In July 2007 it had an official...

Author : Matthew Llewellyn,John Gleaves,Wayne Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317502456

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The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games by Matthew Llewellyn,John Gleaves,Wayne Wilson Pdf

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. Fresh off the back of the financially disastrous Montreal Games of 1976 and the politically controversial Moscow Games of 1980, the Olympic movement returned to the United States for the sixth time in an attempt to salvage the economic viability and global prestige of the Olympics. The Los Angeles Olympics proved to be both provocative and polarizing. On the one hand they have been heralded as an overwhelming, transformative success, ushering the Olympic movement into the modern commercial age. On the other hand, critics have repudiated the Games as a manifestation of commercial excess and a platform for western political and cultural propaganda. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Olympics, this volume examines their legacy. With an international collection of contributing scholars, this volume will span a range of global legacies, including the increasing commercialization of the Games, the changing participation of women, the Communist boycott movement, nationalism and sporting identity, and the modernization and California-cation of the Games. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.