My Olympic Journey : Sixty Years with Canadian Sport and the Olympic Games
Author: James Worrall
Publisher: Canadian Olympic Assoc.
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780968771808
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Publisher: Canadian Olympic Assoc.
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780968771808
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nicholas Evan Sarantakes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0521194776
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott. Broad in its focus, it looks at events in Washington, D.C., as well as the opposition to the boycott and how this attempted embargo affected the athletic contests in Moscow. Jimmy Carter based his foreign policy on assumptions that had fundamental flaws and reflected a superficial familiarity with the Olympic movement. These basic mistakes led to a campaign that failed to meet its basic mission objectives but did manage to insult the Soviets just enough to destroy détente and restart the Cold War. The book also includes a military history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which provoked the boycott, and an examination of the boycott's impact four years later at the Los Angeles Olympics, where the Soviet Union retaliated with its own boycott.
Author: Stephan Wassong
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-11
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1351856766
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure and on Olympic sport can be expanded. The Olympic Movement can be addressed from multidisciplinary perspectives, including management, sociology, education, philosophy and history. This comprehensive collection examines the multifaceted profile of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement and presents new insights drawn from a variety of research projects. Historical and political dimensions of the Olympic and Paralympic Movement are addressed, along with educational, ethical, commercial and sociological perspectives. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author: Richard Menkis
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2015-05-27
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1442620528
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada’s involvement in the 1936 Olympics. It is the story of the Canadian Olympic officials and promoters who were convinced that national unity and pride demanded that Canadian athletes compete in the Olympics without regard for politics. It is the story of those Canadian athletes, mostly young and far more focused on sport than politics, who were eager to make family, friends, and country proud of their efforts on Canada’s behalf. And, finally, it is the story of those Canadians who led an unsuccessful campaign to boycott the Olympics and deny Nazi Germany the propaganda coup of serving as an Olympic host. Written by two noted historians of Canadian Jewish history, Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of the Second World War.
Author: Estée Fresco
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2022-12-15
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0228015154
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Canada hosted the 1976 Montreal Olympics, few Canadian spectators waved flags in the stands. By 2010, in the run-up to the Vancouver Olympics, thousands of Canadians wore red mittens with white maple leaves on the palms. In doing so, they turned their hands into miniature flags that flew with even a casual wave. Red Mitten Nationalism investigates this shift in Canadians’ displays of patriotism by exploring how common understandings of Canadian history and identity are shaped at the intersection of sport, commercialism, and nationalism. Through case studies of recent Canadian-hosted Olympic and Commonwealth Games, Estée Fresco argues that representations of Indigenous Peoples’ cultures are central to the way everyday Canadians, corporations, and sport organizations remember the past and understand the present. Corporate sponsors and games organizers highlight selective ideas about the nation’s identity, and unacknowledged truths about the history and persistence of Settler colonialism in Canada haunt the commercial and cultural features of these sporting events. Commodities that represent the nation – from disposable trinkets to carefully curated objects of nostalgia – are not uncomplicated symbols of national pride, but rather reminders that Canada is built on Indigenous land and Settlers profit from its natural resources. Red Mitten Nationalism challenges readers to re-evaluate how Canadians use sport and commercial practices to express their patriotism and to understand the impact of this expression on the current state of Indigenous-Settler relations.
Author: Lucie Thibault
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 2013-12-17
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0776620959
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Author: Vida Bajc
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 1137290692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses the relationship between the Olympic Games, with its ethos of openness and collectivism, and the security concerns and surveillance technologies that are becoming increasingly prevalent in the organisation of public events.
Author: Lopez Lomong
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1595555153
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offers the true story of a Sudanese boy who, through unyielding faith, overcame a wartorn nation to become an American citizen and an Olympic contender.
Author: Michael Morris Baron Killanin
Publisher: New York : Morrow
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Norm O'Reilly
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Published: 2022-05-04
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 1718200951
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