The 1920 Olympic Games

Author : Bill Mallon,Anthony Th. Bijkerk
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476621616

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The 1920 Olympic Games by Bill Mallon,Anthony Th. Bijkerk Pdf

Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, have been far from complete. The Antwerp organizing committee typed up a report of the results almost as an afterthought because it was so financially strapped after the games. For some events only the medalists are listed, with little, if any, additional information. Very few copies were ever produced, and those few copies were in French. The seventh in a series on the early Olympics, this work fills a gap in the recording of early Olympics history by providing complete results for all competitors and all events (except for shooting, which has only partial information available). In virtually all cases, a 1920 source has been used in preference to a more modern source of information, and all details have been fully researched in contemporary newspapers, journals, and magazines and checked for accuracy by experts on various sports from all over the world.

Author : Luke J. Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137498625

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Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 by Luke J. Harris Pdf

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 debates that were present within their national press.

Author : Ellen Phillips
Publisher : World Sport Research & Publications Incorporated
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1888383070

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The VII Olympiad by Ellen Phillips Pdf

Author : Roland Renson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : 9053250514

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The Games Reborn by Roland Renson Pdf

Author : United States Olympic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : CORNELL:31924029945650

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Report of the American Olympic Committee by United States Olympic Committee Pdf

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025988945

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The 1920 Olympic Games by Bill Mallon Pdf

Till now, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, have been far from complete. The Antwerp organizing committee published an official report (actually just a typed copy) of the results almost as an afterthought because it was so financially strapped after the games. For some events only the medalists are listed, with little, if any, additional information. Very few copies were ever printed, and those few copies were in French. The seventh in a series on the early Olympics, this work fills a gap in the recording of early Olympics history by providing complete results for all competitors and all events (except for shooting, which has only partial information due to the obscurity of the results). In virtually all cases, a 1920 source has been used in preference to a more modern source of information, and all details have been fully researched in contemporary newspapers, journals, and magazines and checked for accuracy by experts on various sports from all over the world. The appendices include a schedule of events and festivities for the 1920 Olympics, information on World War I and Olympians, a tentative schedule of events that had been planned for the 1916 Olympic Games (which never took place because of the war), and information on the 1919 Inter-Allied Games.

Author : United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Olympics
ISBN : UOM:39015005350619

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The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports by United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports Pdf

Author : David Wallechinsky,Jaime Loucky
Publisher : Amazon Difital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1937530701

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The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics by David Wallechinsky,Jaime Loucky Pdf

"Published in anticipation of the 2014 Sochi Games, The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics has been expanded to include the rules and scoring for all the upcoming events. The book also looks at the history of each Olympic event from inception to the present day, including discontinued events and the four skating events first featured, before the creation of the Winter Olympics, in the 1908 London Summer Olympics. From speed skating to snowboarding, bobsled to ice hockey, the book gives the medals tables, timings, distances, and scores. But much more than a statistical compendium, the book also offers an abundance of Winter Olympic history, anecdotes, and lore, as authors David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky bring alive the most dramatic moments from the Games and celebrating the many extraordinary individuals who have competed."--Publisher's description.

Author : Luke J. Harris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137498625

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Britain and the Olympic Games, 1908-1920 by Luke J. Harris Pdf

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 debates that were present within their national press.

Author : United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Athletics
ISBN : MSU:31293103922757

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The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, January 1977, Washington, D.C. by United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports Pdf

Author : John Horne,Garry Whannel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317495208

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Understanding the Olympics by John Horne,Garry Whannel Pdf

The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event in the world, with billions of viewers across the globe. How did the Olympics evolve into this 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 2016 Olympics in Rio? Now in a fully revised and updated new edition that places Rio 2016 in the foreground, Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical and economic context of the Games. This book presents the latest research on the Olympics, including new material on legacy, sustainability and corruption, and introduces the reader to all of the key themes of contemporary Olympic Studies including: the history of the Olympics Olympic politics access and equity the Olympics and the media festival and spectacle the Olympic economy urban development Olympic futures. The most up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the Olympic Games, this book contains a full Olympic history timeline as well as illustrations, information boxes and ‘Olympic Stories’ in every chapter. Understanding the Olympics is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympics or the wider relationship between sport and society.

Author : Matthew P. Llewellyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317979760

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Rule Britannia: Nationalism, Identity and the Modern Olympic Games by Matthew P. Llewellyn Pdf

On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olympic movement, the historical roots of British Olympism have received limited scholarly attention. With the conclusion of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the passing of the baton to London, Rule Britannia remedies that oversight. This book uncovers Britain’s early Olympic involvement, revealing how the British public, media, and leading governmental officials were strongly opposed to international Olympic competition. It explores how the British Olympic Association focused on three main factors in the midst of widespread national opposition: it embraced early Olympian spectacles as a platform for maintaining a sporting union with Ireland, it fostered a greater sense of imperial identity with Britain’s white dominions, and it undertook an ambitious policy of athletic specialization designed to reverse the nation’s waning fortunes in international sport. This book was previously published as a special issue of International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : David B Kanin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429724312

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A Political History Of The Olympic Games by David B Kanin Pdf

The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie

Author : Walker Smith, 1896-,Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : OCLC:19079370

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An Olympian's Oral History by Walker Smith, 1896-,Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles Pdf

Author : Vijaya Khandurie
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184301625

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The Olympic Games Quiz Book by Vijaya Khandurie Pdf

This book, in the form of quizzes, is the story about a culture that started in 776 BC until 1169 years later when in 393 AD the Ancient Olympic Games were terminated all of a sudden by an Emperor known as Theodosius I, but revived in 1896 AD by a 30-year old French aristocrat known as Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the Modern Olympic Games. This sporting culture in the form of the Modern Olympic Games is still continuing since 1896 and in the form of the XXX Olympiad is again appearing in London from 27 July 212, in which thousands of best athletes in the world will inspire millions of people across the world to towards fitness, peace and international brotherhood. This exhaustive quiz book is meant to create awareness among the students, teachers and the mass about the various sports that are included in the Olympic programme. A must read book for all the sports-lover !