Author: Garry Chapman Publisher: ISBN: 9781420262162 Category : Olympic games Languages : en Pages : 64
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This comprehensive book of facts covers everything from the origins of the Olympics to factors such as drugs and technologies impacting on the famous games today. Seven areas integral to the Games are covered: • origins of the Olympics • Olympic administration • Olympic traditions • Olympic ceremonies • host cities • Olympiad events • Olympic issues.
Author: Garry Chapman Publisher: ISBN: 9780732988890 Category : Olympics Languages : en Pages : 64
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The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Olympic Sports presents information on the 31 sports in the Olympic Games with a special focus on the events. The six volumes in the set feature photos and information such as history of the sport, rules and scoring for events, venues for each event, equipment used and much more. Ages 10-14.
Author: Rachel Bladon Publisher: MacMillan UK ISBN: 9780230422247 Category : Olympics Languages : en Pages : 77
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The Macmillan Readers series are carefully graded from Starter to Upper Intermediate (A1-B2) to help students choose the right reading material for their ability. Our list of titles includes great stories from both contemporary and classic authors.
Author: Zlatko Jovanovic Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030765989 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the book explores how the promotion of the city as a future global tourist centre resulted in an increased awareness among its populace of the city’s cultural particularities. The analysis reveals how the process of modernisation relating to hosting of the Olympics provided an opportunity to re-imagine the city as a particularly environmentally progressive city. Placed within the field of studies of late socialism, the book offers important insights into Yugoslav society during the period, including those relating to the country’s unique geopolitical position and its nationalities policies.
Author: David Goldblatt Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393254119 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 755
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“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Author: David C. Young Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 0470777753 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 200
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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.
Author: Bill Mallon Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476621616 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 561
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Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, have been far from complete. The Antwerp organizing committee typed up a report of the results almost as an afterthought because it was so financially strapped after the games. For some events only the medalists are listed, with little, if any, additional information. Very few copies were ever produced, and those few copies were in French. The seventh in a series on the early Olympics, this work fills a gap in the recording of early Olympics history by providing complete results for all competitors and all events (except for shooting, which has only partial information available). In virtually all cases, a 1920 source has been used in preference to a more modern source of information, and all details have been fully researched in contemporary newspapers, journals, and magazines and checked for accuracy by experts on various sports from all over the world.
Author: Garry Chapman
Author: Garry Chapman
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