The World Of Olympics

Author : Nick Hunter
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN 13 : 1410941264
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World of Olympics written by Nick Hunter and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the origins and growth of the Olympics and how it became a truly international event, describes the games held on different continents and the accomplishments of athletes from each continent, and discusses controversies at the games.

Author : Phil Cousineau
Publisher : Quest Books
ISBN 13 : 9780835608336
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Odyssey written by Phil Cousineau and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anticipating the 2004 Games in Athens, this book offers an opportunity to revitalize the role of sports around the world.

Author : John Horne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317495195
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Olympics written by John Horne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event in the world, with billions of viewers across the globe. How did the Olympics evolve into this multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the 2016 Olympics in Rio? Now in a fully revised and updated new edition that places Rio 2016 in the foreground, Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical and economic context of the Games. This book presents the latest research on the Olympics, including new material on legacy, sustainability and corruption, and introduces the reader to all of the key themes of contemporary Olympic Studies including: the history of the Olympics Olympic politics access and equity the Olympics and the media festival and spectacle the Olympic economy urban development Olympic futures. The most up-to-date and authoritative introduction to the Olympic Games, this book contains a full Olympic history timeline as well as illustrations, information boxes and ‘Olympic Stories’ in every chapter. Understanding the Olympics is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympics or the wider relationship between sport and society.

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0143121871
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Watch the Olympics written by David Goldblatt and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-have guide to the Summer Olympic Games This summer, millions of Americans will tune into the Olympic Games, the largest and most popular sporting event in the world. Yet while it's easy to be fascinated by agile gymnasts, poised equestrians, and perfectly synchronized swimmers, few of us know the real width of a balance beam, the intricate regulations of dressage, or the origin of those crowd-pleasing legs-in-the-air swimming formations. Luckily, David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton have created this utterly thorough and always fun guide to the rules, strategy, and history of each sport. Originally timed to 2012 London Games, their book is every bit as useful for Rio de Janeiro in 2016. With witty, detailed descriptions and clever illustrations, How to Watch the Olympics will help anyone grasp handball, archery, wrestling, fencing, and every other Olympic event like a true pro.

Author : Lu Zhouxiang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351181475
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Olympics in Conflict written by Lu Zhouxiang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the twentieth century, the Olympics played an important role in the politics of the Cold War and was part of the conflicts between the Capitalist Block, the Socialist Block and Third World countries. The Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) is one of the best examples of the politicization of sport and the Olympics in the Cold War era. From the 1980s onward, the Olympics has facilitated communication and cooperation between nations in the post–Cold War era and contributed to the formation of a new world order. In August 2016, the Games of the XXXI Olympiad were held in Rio de Janeiro, making Brazil the first South American country to host the Summer Olympics. This was widely regarded as a new landmark event in the history of the modern Olympic movement. From the GANEFO to Rio, the Olympic Games have witnessed the shifting balance in international politics and world economy. This book aims at understanding the transformation of the Olympics over the past decades and tries to explain how the Olympic movement played its part in world politics, the world economy and international relations against the background of the rise of developing countries. The chapters in this book were published as a special issue in The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Author : International Olympic Committee
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1787397904
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Olympic Games written by International Olympic Committee and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jeremy Fuchs
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523510897
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Total Olympics written by Jeremy Fuchs and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An amusing miscellany of more than 100 years of legendary, obscure, hilarious, and inspiring Olympics history, including the heroes, the records, the forgotten moments, the sports themselves (ski ballet? tug of war? firefighting?), the controversies, and the athletes who achieved Olympic glory (or shame).

Author : Bob Knotts
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
ISBN 13 : 9780516210643
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Summer Olympics written by Bob Knotts and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 2000 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the history, ideals, events, and heroes of the Olympic Games, with an emphasis on the Summer Olympics.

Author : David Goldblatt
Publisher : Pan Books
ISBN 13 : 9781447298878
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Games written by David Goldblatt and published by Pan Books. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply, the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a "display of manly virtue", an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper and how has it been so utterly transformed?In The Games, David Goldblatt - winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award - takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history. Beginning with the olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque and its transformation into a global media spectacular, care of Hollywood and the Nazi party, The Games shows how sport and the olympics been a battlefield in the global Cold War, a defining moment for social and economic change in host cities and countries, and a theatre of resistance for women and athletes colour once excluded from the show. Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of olympic completion - this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance and the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games. It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit and the one we actually live in.

Author : Kevin B. Witherspoon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Before the Eyes of the World written by Kevin B. Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: