The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad
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The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Olympic Games categories.
The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad
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Author : Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad written by Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with categories.
The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad
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Author : Olympic Games, London, 1948. Organising Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad written by Olympic Games, London, 1948. Organising Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Olympic Games categories.
The Urban Legacy Of Olympic Villages
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Author : Valerio della Sala
language : en
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Release Date : 2025-04-15
The Urban Legacy Of Olympic Villages written by Valerio della Sala and has been published by Common Ground Research Networks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-15 with Social Science categories.
The Urban Legacy of Olympic Villages: From Paris to Beijing (1924–2022) explores how mega-events reshape cities long after the closing ceremonies. Through critical analysis of territorial transformations and local development, this study unpacks the complex legacy and collective memory forged by Olympic Villages across nearly a century. Drawing on innovative parameters of urban planning and design, it reveals how host cities have approached construction, environmental stewardship, and community engagement, all while striving to protect and respect their surrounding territories. By illuminating the successes and challenges of these projects, this book offers fresh insights for planners, policymakers, and anyone passionate about the enduring impact of global events on our urban future.
Olympic Cities
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Author : John Gold
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2011-02-25
Olympic Cities written by John Gold and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-25 with Political Science categories.
Olympic Cities provides the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With eighteen specially commissioned and original essays written by a team of distinguished international authors, it explores the historical experience of staging the Olympics from the point of view of the host city. A thought-provoking analysis of the relationship between Olympic festivals and urban spectacle it: provides overviews of the urban impact of the four component Olympic festivals – the Summer Games, Winter Games, Cultural Olympiads and the Paralympics comprises systematic surveys of four key aspects of activity involved in staging the Olympics – finance, place promotion, managing spectacle and urban regeneration consists of nine chronologically arranged portraits of host cities, from 1936 to 2012, with particular emphasis on the first four Summer Olympic games of the twenty-first century. As controversy over the growing size and expense of the Olympics continues unabated, this book’s incisive and timely assessment of the Games’ development and the complex agendas that host cities attach to the event will be essential reading not only for urban and sports historians, urban geographers, planners and all concerned with understanding the relationship between cities and culture, but for anyone with an interest in the staging of mega-events.
The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Official Report Of The Organising Committee For The Xiv Olympiad written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Olympic Games categories.
Olympic Risks
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Author : Will Jennings
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-05-29
Olympic Risks written by Will Jennings and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-29 with Political Science categories.
An exploration of how the Olympics are organised in response to risk. This book looks at the tension between the riskiness of mega-events, attributable to their scale and complexities, and the societal, political and organisational pressures that exist for safety, security and management of risk – leading to changes in how the Games are governed.
Beyond The Finish Line
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Author : Jonathan Finn
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2020-09-23
Beyond The Finish Line written by Jonathan Finn and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-23 with Sports & Recreation categories.
In the 1880s photographers and sports enthusiasts confidently declared the end of dead heats in sporting competition. Reflecting a broader social belief in technology, proponents of the camera stressed that the device could provide definitive proof of who won and who lost. Yet despite this remedy for the inadequate human eye, competitive races between horses, boats, and bicycles ended too close to call a sole champion. More than a century later, when cameras can subdivide the second into ten-thousandths and beyond, athletes continue to cross the finish line in ties. In this fascinating journey through the history of the photo-finish in sports, Jonathan Finn shows how innovation was animated by a drive for ever more precise tools and a quest for perfect measurement. As he traces the technological developments inspired by this crusade - from the evolution of the still camera to movie cameras, ultimately leading to complex contemporary photo-finish systems - Finn uncovers the social implications of adopting and contesting the photograph as evidence in sport. At every turn empirical obsession intersects with the unpredictability of sports, creating a paradox wherein the precision offered by photo-finish technology far exceeds the realities of human performance and its measurement. Separating athletes by the hundredth, thousandth, or ten-thousandth of a second is often a fiction that comes with significant material and cultural implications. A lively biography of a critical technology, Beyond the Finish Line illuminates the cultural role of the photo-finish in win-at-all-costs culture and warn that in our pursuit for precision we may threaten the human element of sport that galvanizes mere spectators into fans.
Cold War Olympics
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Author : Harry Blutstein
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2021-12-17
Cold War Olympics written by Harry Blutstein and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-17 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport for political ends. In Helsinki, the Soviet Union nearly overtook the United States in the medal count. Caught off guard, the U.S. hastened to respond, certain that the Soviets would use a victory at the next Olympics to broadcast their superiority over the Western world. Following the 1956 suppression of the Hungarian uprising, a Soviet athlete struck a Hungarian opponent in the Melbourne water polo semifinals, turning the pool red. The United States covertly encouraged Eastern Bloc athletes to defect, communist Chinese agents nearly succeeded in goading the Taiwanese government into withdrawing from the games, and a forbidden romance between an American and Czech athlete resulted in a politically complex marriage. This history describes those stories and more that resulted from the complicated relationship between Cold War politics and the Olympics.
Britain S Olympic Women
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Author : Jean Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-07-26
Britain S Olympic Women written by Jean Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-26 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Britain has a long and distinguished history as an Olympic nation. However, most Olympic histories have focused on men’s sport. This is the first book to tell the story of Britain’s Olympic women, how they changed Olympic spectacle and how, in turn, they have reinterpreted the Games. Exploring the key themes of gender and nationalism, and presenting a wealth of new empirical, archival evidence, the book explores the sporting culture produced by British women who aspired to become Olympians, from the early years of the modern Olympic movement. It shines new light on the frameworks imposed on female athletes, individually and as a group, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the British Olympic Association (BOA) and the various affiliated sporting international federations. Using oral history and family history sources, the book tells of the social processes through which British Olympic women have become both heroes and anti-heroes in the public consciousness. Exploring the hidden narratives around women such as Charlotte Cooper, Lottie Dod, Audrey Brown and Pat Smythe, and bringing the story into the modern era of London 2012, Dina Asher-Smith and Katarina Johnson-Thompson, the book helps us to better understand the complicated relationship between sport, gender, media and wider society. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport history, Olympic history, women’s history, British history or gender studies.