Xxii Olympiad

Author : Roberta Conlon
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781987944198

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XXII Olympiad by Roberta Conlon Pdf

The Olympics are meant to be a celebration of sportsmanship and fellowship among nations, but they have sometimes fell short of that goal. XXII Olympiad, the twentieth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins with the story of one of the most politicized Games ever held: Moscow 1980.In December 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, prompting the United States to lead a 65-nation boycott of the Moscow Games. In spite of the absence of many of the world's great athletes, Moscow still produced legendary Olympic champions, like the great Cuban heavyweight Teofilo Stevenson, who became the first boxer to win three consecutive gold medals; and the Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who added two golds and two silvers in Moscow to take her personal medal total to 12. The absence of many top athletes also opened the door for others to make history, like sprinter Allan Wells, who won the first gold medal in the 100 metres for Great Britain since 1924.The book then turns its focus to the 1984 Winter Games of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It profiles the most dominant athlete of those Games, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi of Finland, who won all three individual golds in cross-country skiing. Sarajevo also saw the British ice dancing pair Torvil and Dean post perfect scores for artistic impression in their gold-medal performance, a feat never duplicated; as well as the participation of the first black African Olympic skier, Lamine Gueye of Senegal.Juan Antonio Samaranch, former President of the International Olympic Committee, called The Olympic Century, "e;The most comprehensive history of the Olympic games ever published"e;.

Author : Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : UOM:39015001074445

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Games of the XXII Olympiad by Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : UOM:39015001074437

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Games of the XXII Olympiad, Moscow 1980 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Olympic Games
ISBN : UOM:39015001074452

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Games of the XXII Olympiad by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marie Delaplace,Pierre-Olaf Schut
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 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 : Will Jennings
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137022004

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Olympic Risks by Will Jennings Pdf

An exploration of how the Olympics are organised in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organisational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk – leading to changes in how the Games are governed.

Author : Jenifer Parks
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498541190

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The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War by Jenifer Parks Pdf

Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow, this book argues that behind the high-profile performances of Soviet elite athletes, a legion of sports administrators worked within international sports organizations and the Soviet party-state to increase Soviet chances of success and make Soviet representatives a respected voice in international sports. Soviet officials helped expand the Olympic movement, increasing the participation of women, developing nations, and socialist bloc countries, while achieving Soviet political and diplomatic aims. Soviet representatives, over the course of only a few decades, became a dominant and respected voice within international sports circles, actively promoting Olympic ideals abroad even as they transformed those ideals to better align with Soviet goals. In the process, Soviet sports contributed to the evolution of Olympic sport, integrating the Soviet Union into an emerging global culture, and contributing to transformations within the Soviet Union. Back home in the USSR, the Sports Committee's leading personalities represented a new kind of Soviet bureaucrat, who emerged in the late years of Stalinism and contributed to the professionalization of party-state apparatus. Standing at the intersection between state and society, between Soviet political goals and their execution, and between Olympic sport and Communist ideology, mid-level Soviet sports administrators demonstrated ideological drive, political savvy, and professional pragmatism, providing the impetus, expertise, and experience to transform broad ideological constructs into specific policies and procedures in the Soviet Union and realize Soviet propaganda and foreign policy goals in international and Olympic sports.

Author : Roberta Conlan
Publisher : World Sport Research & Publications Incorporated
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1888383208

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The XXII Olympiad by Roberta Conlan Pdf

Author : Philip D’Agati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137360250

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The Cold War and the 1984 Olympic Games by Philip D’Agati Pdf

The Soviet boycott of the 1984 Olympic Games is explained as the result of a complex series of events and policies that culminated in a strategic decision to not participate in Los Angeles. Using IR framework, D'Agati developes and argues for the concept of surrogate wars as an alternative means for conflict between states.

Author : John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136893735

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Olympic Cities by John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold Pdf

Providing a full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events, this substantially revised and enlarged edition builds on the success of its predecessor. Its coverage takes account of important new scholarship as well as adding reflections on the experience of staging Beijing 2008 and Vancouver 2010, the state of preparations for London 2012, and the plans for the Games scheduled for Sochi in 2014 and Rio de Janeiro 2016. The book is divided into three parts that provide overviews of the urban legacy of the four component Olympic festivals, systematic surveys of five key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics and ten chronologically arranged portraits of host cities. As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics continues, this timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading for urban and sports historians, urban geographers, planners and all concerned with understanding the relationship between cities and culture. Olympic Cities is one of the Routledge books of the month for December 2010

Author : Paul Close,David Askew,Xu Xin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781134248889

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The Beijing Olympiad by Paul Close,David Askew,Xu Xin Pdf

The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history. Still, the issues taxing many minds include whether the Beijing Games will be successful; whether they will be wrought with and wrecked by troubles; and who they will benefit. What value will the 2008 Games be to the people of China? Will they mainly serve the purposes of the dominant political, economic and cultural groups at and between the local, regional and global levels of modern social life? The Beijing Olympiad examines these among other questions, providing a range of original insights of interest to an array of scholars, researchers and students from Sports Studies to Sociology, Politics, Economics, International Relations and Legal Studies.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : UCR:31210003395405

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U.S. Participation in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs Pdf

Author : Maurice Crow,Juliet Morris
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781844686490

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A Guide to the Olympic Games and London 2012 by Maurice Crow,Juliet Morris Pdf

According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus. The first Olympics were held in 776 BCE and continued to be played every four years for nearly 1200 years. In 393 CE, the Roman emperor Theodosius I, a Christian, abolished the Games because of their pagan influences. Approximately 1500 years later, a young Frenchmen named Pierre de Coubertin began their revival and the first modern day Olympics were held in Athens in 1896.The modern day Summer Olympics consist of approximately 10,500 competitors from 204 countries competing in more than 300 events. This pocket guide provides a brief history of the Olympics from their origin until the present day, including a guide to London 2012. The History of the Olympic Games is the perfect accessory to the London Olympics acting as a handy guide to Olympic venues, events and achievements. Also included are tables of previous winners making this the perfect gift for any Athletics fan.

Author : John Robert Gold,John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415374064

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Olympic Cities by John Robert Gold,John R. Gold,Margaret M. Gold Pdf

This volume provides an overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic Games, starting from the year 1896. Blending critical conceptual insight with grounded case studies, this book, divided into three parts, explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city.

Author : John Gold,Margaret Gold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136768255

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Olympic Cities by John Gold,Margaret Gold Pdf

Olympic Cities provides the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With eighteen specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of distinguished international authors, it explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city. A thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between Olympic festivals and urban spectacle it: provides overviews of the urban impact of the four component Olympic festivals – the Summer Games, Winter Games, Cultural Olympiads and the Paralympics comprises systematic surveys of four key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics – finance, place promotion, managing spectacle and urban regeneration consists of nine chronologically arranged portraits of host cities, from 1936 to 2012, with particular emphasis on the first four Summer Olympic games of the twenty-first century. As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading not only for urban and sports historians, urban geographers, planners and all concerned with understanding the relationship between cities and culture, but for anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events.