The History Of The Olympic Games

Author : International Olympic Committee
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781787397903

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The History of the Olympic Games by International Olympic Committee Pdf

Published in association with the International Olympic Committee, The History of the Olympic Games: Faster, Higher, Stronger brings the glorious story of the world's biggest sporting event to life. Featuring hundreds of stunning photographs from every iteration of the modern summer Games, as well as rare documents and memorabilia from the archives of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, this is a celebration of sporting history like no other. From its humble beginnings under the auspices of Pierre de Coubertin to the modern extravaganza that has showcased legendary athletes such as Michael Phelps, Usain Bolt, Jesse Owens and many more, every edition of the Games is rendered here in fascinating detail, alongside rarely seen artworks and artefacts. Revised, updated and in an exciting new format, The History of the Olympic Games: Faster, Higher, Stronger is the definitive illustrated volume on the world's greatest sporting spectacle. Written with the full co-operation of the International Olympic Committee.

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393254112

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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt Pdf

“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 : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470777756

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A Brief History of the Olympic Games by David C. Young Pdf

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0252070461

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The Olympics by Allen Guttmann Pdf

Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.

Author : Gerald P. Schaus,Stephen R. Wenn
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781554587797

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Onward to the Olympics by Gerald P. Schaus,Stephen R. Wenn Pdf

The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides both an overview and an array of insights into aspects of the Games’ history. Leading North American archaeologists and historians of sport explore the origins of the Games, compare the ancient and the modern, discuss the organization and financing of such massive athletic festivals, and examine the participation ,or the troubling lack of it, by women. Onward to the Olympics bridges the historical divide between the ancient and the modern and concludes with a thought-provoking final essay that attempts to predict the future of the Olympics over the twenty-first century.

Author : Andras Patay-Horvath
Publisher : Archaeolingua
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9639911720

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The Origins of the Olympic Games by Andras Patay-Horvath Pdf

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."

Author : David Miller
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Olympics
ISBN : UOM:49015003441780

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The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC by David Miller Pdf

The dramatic account of the dual history of the worlds foremost sporting spectacle. The story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often controversial fortunes of the governing body, together with the highs and lows of the Olympics themselves.

Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781784780746

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Power Games by Jules Boykoff Pdf

The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.

Author : David B Kanin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Katharine Marsh (Editor)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Olympic games (Ancient)
ISBN : 1803081775

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History of the Olympic Games by Katharine Marsh (Editor) Pdf

Author : William Mellors Henry,Patricia Henry Yeomans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Olympics
ISBN : 0882842552

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An Approved History of the Olympic Games by William Mellors Henry,Patricia Henry Yeomans Pdf

Author : David Miller
Publisher : Mainstream Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : 1845966112

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The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC by David Miller Pdf

London 2012: The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC 1894-2012 is a dramatic account of the history of the world's foremost sporting spectacle. It is the lavishly illustrated story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often controversial fortunes of the governing body, which was formed in 1894, and of the highs and lows of the Olympics themselves since the first Games in 1896. It also tells the stories of the historic competitors--from Spyridon Louis (the inaugural marathon winner) and such heroes as Jim Thorpe, Paavo Nurmi, Sonja Henie, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Emil Zatopek, Herb Elliott, Kip Keino, Mark Spitz, Franz Klammer, Sebastian Coe and Carl Lewis through to Hicham El Guerrouj, Michael Phelps and Sun-Yu Jin. Each chapter begins with a personal reminiscence by either a famous champion or a notable IOC figure. Detailed background is provided to the many crises: the Nazi Games of 1936; the massacre at Mexico City in 1968; the terrorist slaughter of Israelis at the 1972 Munich Games; the boycotts; the advent of professionals from 1988; and the Ben Johnson scandal and the ongoing threat of drug abuse. As the sporting world awaits, with eager expectation, the 2012 Games in London, this book gives an unparalleled account of the Olympics story from its beginnings in Athens 1894 to the build-up to the Games in London.

Author : Marie Delaplace,Pierre-Olaf Schut
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000546774

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Hosting the Olympic Games by Marie Delaplace,Pierre-Olaf Schut Pdf

Hosting the Olympic Games: Uncertainty, Debates and Controversy provides a broad and comprehensive analysis of past Olympic and Paralympic events, shedding critical light on the future of the Games with a specific look at the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympics. It draws attention to the debates and paradox that hosting the Games presents for the contemporary city. Employing a range of interdisciplinary theoretical and methodological approaches, individual chapters highlight the various controversies of the Games throughout the bidding process, the event itself and its aftermath. Social Science-based chapters place strong emphasis on the vital importance of sustainable strategy for contemporary host cities. Along with environmental concerns whether atmospheric, microbiological or otherwise, many other requirements, costs and risks involving security and public expenditure among others are explored throughout the book. Including a variety of international and comparative case studies from a range of contributing academics, this will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of Event studies as well as various disciplines including Tourism, Heritage studies and Urban and Environmental studies.

Author : William Mellors Henry,Workman Family Papers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Olympics
ISBN : OCLC:42613210

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An Approved History of the Olympic Games by William Mellors Henry,Workman Family Papers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Olympics
ISBN : OCLC:46491263

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Olympics Through Time by Anonim Pdf

The Foundation of the Hellenic World recounts the history of the Olympic games. The foundation highlights the prehistory and ancient history of the athletic events. The revival of the games occurred at the first international games in Athens, Greece, in 1896.