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Onward to the Olympics
Language: en
Pages: 406
Authors: Gerald P. Schaus
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-02 - Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has bl
Olympics in Conflict
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Lu Zhouxiang
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-09 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 Cap
Watching the Olympics
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: John Sugden
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-27 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cu
Activism and the Olympics
Language: en
Pages: 243
Authors: Jules Boykoff
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-27 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that br
Games of History
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Apostolos Spanos
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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Games of History provides an understanding of how games as artefacts, textual and visual sources on games and gaming as a pastime or a “serious” activity ca