A Brief History Of The Olympic Games
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A Brief History Of The Olympic Games
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Author : David C. Young
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Brief History Of The Olympic Games written by David C. Young and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with History categories.
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.
The Olympics
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Author : Allen Guttmann
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2002
The Olympics written by Allen Guttmann and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
History Of The Olympic Games
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Author : Katharine Marsh (Editor)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
History Of The Olympic Games written by Katharine Marsh (Editor) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Olympic games (Ancient) categories.
The History Of The Olympic Games
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Author : International Olympic Committee
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-05-27
The History Of The Olympic Games written by International Olympic Committee and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-27 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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.
Goofy Presents The Olympics
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Author : Walt Disney Productions
language : en
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Release Date : 1979-01-01
Goofy Presents The Olympics written by Walt Disney Productions and has been published by Random House Books for Young Readers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979-01-01 with Olympics categories.
Presents a brief history of the ancient and modern Olympic games.
The Games
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Author : David Goldblatt
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2016-07-14
The Games written by David Goldblatt and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with Sports & Recreation categories.
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 had been a battlefield during the Cold War, a defining moment for social and economic change in host cities and countries, and a theatre of resistance for women and athletes of colour once excluded from the show. Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of Olympic competition - 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.
The Olympics
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Author : Peter Tatlow
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
The Olympics written by Peter Tatlow and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Olympics categories.
Presents, in text and illustrations, a brief history of the Olympic Games from their origins in ancient Greece through their revival as the modern Olympics in 1894 to the present day.
The Olympic Games
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Author : Theodore Andrea Cook
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
The Olympic Games written by Theodore Andrea Cook and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with Greece categories.
Power Games
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Author : Jules Boykoff
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2016-05-17
Power Games written by Jules Boykoff and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event's nineteenth-century origins, through the Games' flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers' Games and Women's Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
The History Of The Olympics
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Author : Nigel Blundell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The History Of The Olympics written by Nigel Blundell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Greece categories.
Gives a brief overview of the history of the games ; the first in 776 B.C., the year the names of winners were first recorded. "Today the Olympic Games is a global business of mind boggling proportions. Hundreds of millions of dollars change hands in negotiations for TV rights, merchandise sales, athletes' sponsorship, advertising contracts ... etc."