The First Modern Olympics
Author: Richard D. Mandell
Publisher: Blacktoad Publishing
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 0957059108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard D. Mandell
Publisher: Blacktoad Publishing
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 133
ISBN-13: 0957059108
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vassil Girginov
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780415346047
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This new student textbook explores the history and meaning of the modern Olympic Games, providing a comprehensive overview of 'Olympism' from the Ancient Greeks origins through to the beginnings of the International Olympic Committee.
Author: Allen Guttmann
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780252070464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
Author: Michael Llewellyn Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781861977090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A rich and entertaining work of history, Olympics in Athens 1896 brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in competing countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.
Author: Haydn Middleton
Publisher: Capstone Publishing - (Raintree)
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780431191607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Which Winter Games were held on imported snow? Which golfer walked to the medal ceremony on his hands? Will BMX biking ever be an Olympic sport? Find the answers to these questions and more as you read about the Games as we know them today, including the Paralympics and the difficult process of choosing host cities.
Author: John E. Findling
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780275976590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This unique book provides information on the events surrounding the Olympics, such as political controversies, scandals, tragedies, economic issues, and peripheral incidents.
Author: David C. Young
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-04
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801872075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Coubertin's main contribution to the founding of the modern Olympics was the zeal he brought to transforming an idea that had evolved over decades into the reality of Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.
Author: Vassil Girginov
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780415346030
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This student textbook explores the history and meaning of the modern Olympic Games, providing a comprehensive overview of 'Olympism' from the Ancient Greeks origins through to the beginnings of the International Olympic Committee.
Author: Matthew P. Llewellyn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1317979761
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Goldblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2016-07-26
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 0393254119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“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.