The
Complete Book of the Olympics: 2008 Edition
by David Wallechinsky, Jaime Loucky
Paperback from Aurum Press
ISBN: 1845133307
With a complete statistical record since
the 1896 founding of the modern Games--including medals won and times,
distances, or scores recorded by the top eight competitors in all events
(from staples such as the marathon to long-discontinued competitions such
as the tug of war), this encyclopedic tome contains anything anyone could
ever need or want to know about the modern Olympic Games. Far from a dry
compendium of names, numbers, and scoring systems, this book also contains
a summary history of every event at each of the 26 modern Games, enriched
with an extraordinary wealth of Olympic lore and anecdote. The authors
provide thought-provoking analysis of issues and controversies from shamateurism
to drug-taking and corruption, and they have sieved through more than a
century of Olympic history to assemble a mind-boggling collection of stories
that range from the inspiring, through the comic, to the bizarre. Such
long-forgotten characters are included as the boy who was plucked from
the streets of Paris to navigate for two Dutch oarsmen in the paired-oar
event in 1900 and, after steering them to victory and a Gold Medal, returned
to obscurity, his name unknown to this day; or the 72-year-old winner of
a silver medal for target-shooting.
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Olympic
Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World's Games, 1896 - 2016 (Planning,
History and Environment Series)
Paperback from Routledge
ISBN: 0415486580
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
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The
Naked Olympics: The True Story of the Ancient Games
by Tony Perrottet
Paperback from Random House Trade Paperbacks
Media Published: 2004-
ISBN: 081296991X
What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games?
With the summer Olympics' return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into
the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author
of Pagan Holiday brings attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating
story of the original Olympic festival, tracking the event day by day to
re-create the experience in all its compelling spectacle.
Using firsthand reports and little-known sources--including an actual
Handbook for a Sports Coach used by the Greeks--The Naked Olympics
creates a vivid picture of an extravaganza performed before as many as
forty thousand people, featuring contests as timeless as the javelin throw
and as exotic as the chariot race.
Peeling away the layers of myth, Perrottet lays bare the ancient
sporting experience--including the round-the-clock bacchanal inside the
tents of the Olympic Village, the all-male nude workouts under the statue
of Eros, and history's first corruption scandals involving athletes. Featuring
sometimes scandalous cameos by sports enthusiasts Plato, Socrates, and
Herodotus, The Naked Olympics offers essential insight into today's
Games and an unforgettable guide to the world's first and most influential
athletic festival.
"Just in time for the modern Olympic games to return to Greece this
summer for the first time in more than a century, Tony Perrottet offers
up a diverting primer on the Olympics of the ancient kind....Well researched;
his sources are as solid as sources come. It's also well writen....Perhaps
no book of the season will show us so briefly and entertainingly just how
complete is our inheritance from the Greeks, vulgarity and all."
--The Washington Post |
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The
Olympics: A HISTORY OF THE MODERN GAMES (2D ED.) (Illinois History of Sports)
by Allen Guttmann
Paperback from University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252070461
Politics has always been an integral part of the Olympics - not an
occasional intruder in the form of a boycott, protest, or act of terrorism.
In this probing social history, distinguished by a lively mix of journalism
and scholarship, Allen Guttmann discusses the intended and actual meaning
of the modern Olympic Games, from 1896 to 2000. Recounting the memorable
and significant athletic events of the Olympics in terms of their social
and political impact, Guttmann demonstrates that the modern games were
revived to propagate a political message and continue to serve political
purposes. This second edition of Guttmann's critically acclaimed history
includes coverage of the controversial tenure of Juan Antonio Samaranch
as president of the International Olympic Committee, a period tainted by
rising drug use among athletes and scandals accompanying the awarding of
sites and marked by the debut of openly professional athletes and the significantly
increased role of female athletes. |
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Turnaround:
Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games
by Mitt Romney, Timothy Robinson
Hardcover from Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 0895260840
The head of the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics organizing committee
describes how he assumed the leadership of the troubled organization and
turned it around to present one of the most successful Olympic Games ever. |
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A
Brief History of the Olympic Games (Brief Histories of the Ancient World)
by David C. Young
Paperback from Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 1405111305
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. |
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Nazi
Games: The Olympics of 1936
by David Clay Large
Hardcover from W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393058840
Athletics and politics collide in a critical event for Nazi Germany
and the contemporary world.
The torch relay--that staple of Olympic pageantry--first opened the
summer games in 1936 in Berlin. Proposed by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry,
the relay was to carry the symbolism of a new Germany across its route
through southeastern and central Europe. Soon after the Wehrmacht would
march in jackboots over the same terrain.
The Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization
of power. Nazi Games offers a superb blend of history and sport. The narrative
includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the
games, derailed finally by the American Olympic Committee and the determination
of its head, Avery Brundage, to participate. Nazi Games also recounts the
dazzling athletic feats of these Olympics, including Jesse Owens's four
gold-medal performances and the marathon victory of Korean runner Kitei
Son, the Rising Sun of Imperial Japan on his bib. 25 b/w photographs |
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The
Nazi Olympics (Sports and Society)
Richard D. Mandell
Paperback / Published 1987
Hitler's Games: The 1936 Olympics
by Duff Hart-Davis
Hardcover from Olympic Marketing Corporation
1986
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Stan Cohen, Carol Van Valkenburg (Editor)
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Arbitration
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Hardcover from Kluwer Law International
Awaken
the Olympian Within : Stories from America's Greatest Olympic Motivators
by John Naber (Editor)
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David Halberstam
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Judith Swaddling
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The Olympian and Pythian Odes (Greek Texts and Commentaries)
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U.S. Olympic Committee
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Jeff Klemsak(Editor)
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U.S. Olympic Committee, Richard D. Burns (Editor)
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Joey Lorraine Parker(Editor)
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Richard D. Burns
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Mary Turco
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Edge of Glory : The Inside Story of the Quest for Figure Skating's
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Christine Brennan
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Marty Glickman, Stan Isaacs (Contributor)
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Freedom
for Catalonia? : Catalan Nationalism, Spanish Identity and the Barcelona
Olympic Games
by John Hargreaves
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Go
for Gold : Olympic Stories of Courage & Inspiration
Elliot Johnson
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Gold
in the Water: The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Extraordinary Dream
of Olympic Glory
by P. H. Mullen Jr.
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Gymnastics (Olympic Library)
Lloyd Readhead
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Handbook
of Cross-Country Skiing: Olympic Handbook of Sports Medicine
by Heikki Rusko
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Performance Racing : A Winning Approach from the 1996 Olympic Medallists
John Merricks, Ian Walker
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Historical
Dictionary of the Olympic Movement (Historical Dictionaries of Religions,
Philosophies, and Movements, 39)
by Ian Buchanan, Bill Mallon
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Introduction to Olympic-Style Weightlifting
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Owens : Olympic Star (Great African Americans Series)
Pat McKissack, et al
Library Binding / Published 1992
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Dot Richardson, Don Yaeger (Contributor)
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The
Modern Olympics : A Struggle for Revival
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by Hal Marcovitz, Chelsea House Publications
Library Binding from Chelsea House Pub (Library)
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Bob Schaller, et al
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Bob Schaller, et al
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Bob Schaller, et al
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Olympic Games (Lucent Overview Series)
by Stephen Currie
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Olympic
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Arne Martin Klausen(Editor)
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Olympic
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Frank Zarnowski
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Charles Gaddy
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Christopher R. Hill
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Manchester Univ Pr; ISBN: 0719044510
Olympics!
B. G. Hennessy, Michael Chesworth (Illustrator)
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Olympism:
A Basic Guide to the History, Ideals, and Sports of the Olympic Movement
(Olympic Guides)
by U.S. Olympic Committee, United States Olympic Committee
Library Binding from Gareth Stevens
One
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and the Israeli Revenge Operation, Wrath of God
by Simon Reeve
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Power,
Politics, and the Olympic Games
Alfred Erich Senn
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Human Kinetics (T); ISBN: 0880119586
Red,
White, Blue & Gold: The U.S. Olympic Team at the Games of the XXVII
Olympiad
by U.S. Olympic Committee (Editor)
(Hardcover)
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Skating for Gold (American Sports History Series, No. 5)
David H. Lewis
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Scientific Coaching for Olympic Taekwondo
Willy Pieter
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by Joy Goodwin
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See How She Runs : Marion Jones & the Making of a Champion
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Tara Vanderveer, Joan Ryan (Contributor)
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Summer Olympics : A Treasury of Legend and Lore
Bob Fulton
Paperback
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Sara Corbett
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Winning Spirit : Achieving Olympic Level Performance in Business &
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Robert B. Sommer(Editor)
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Larry Dane Brimner
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100
Unforgettable Moments in the Summer Olympics
Bob Italia, Robert Italia
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1896 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary
(Results of the Early Modern Olympics/Bill Mallon, 1)
by Bill Mallon, Ture Widlund, Ture Widland
Library Binding from McFarland & Company
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1900 Olympic Games : Results for All Competitors in Al Events, With Commentary
(Results of the Early Modern Olympics/Bill Mallon, 2)
Bill Mallon
Hardcover
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1904 Olympic Games : Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary
(Mallon, Bill. Results of the Early Modern Olympics, 3.)
Bill Mallon
Hardcover
McFarland & Company; ISBN: 0786405503
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1906 Olympic Games : Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary
(Results of the Early Modern Olympics/Bill Mallon, 4)
Bill Mallon
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1908 Olympic Games : Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary
Bill Mallon, Ian Buchanan
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Olympic Games : Results for All Competitors in All Events With Commentary
by Bill Mallon, et al
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1920 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary
(Mallon, Bill. Results of the Early Modern Olympics, 7.)
by Bill Mallon, Anthony Bijkerk, Ton Bijkerk, Doug Gelbert
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Equestrian Excellence: The Stories of Our Olympic Equestrian Medal
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