The Olympic Games Explained: A Student Guide to the Evolution of the Modern Olympic GamesAn awesome festival of sporting excellence and competition, the Olympic Games have now evolved into a major international event with great cultural, political, economic and social importance. The Olympic Games Explained is an introductory guide to the history and meaning of the four-yearly phenomenon that is the modern Olympic Games. The book provides a comprehensive overview of 'Olympism' from its Ancient Greek origins through the beginnings of the International Olympic Committee to the global Olympic Movement in the twenty-first century. Each chapter offers a range of study tasks and review questions to help students develop their understanding of key concepts in Olympic studies. |
Contents
Foreword | |
The idea of Olympism 1 | |
Revival of the modern Olympic Games 35 | |
The Paralympic Games 62 | |
The Olympics and the mass media 77 | |
Olympic Marketing 98 | |
Economic and environmental impacts of the Olympic Games 117 | |
Organising the Olympic Games 134 | |
Olympic politics 153 | |
Ethics of sport and Olympism 169 | |
Drugs and the Olympic Games 185 | |
Sport art and the Olympics 200 | |
Olympic education celebrating the Olympics 216 | |
Case studies 234 | |
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References to this book
Sport and Physical Education: The Key Concepts Timothy John Lindsay Chandler,Mike Cronin,Wray Vamplew No preview available - 2007 |