Olympic and Paralympic games

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on every aspect of our social, cultural, and commercial lives, including the world of sport.

The governance of international sport is dominated by the SINGOs (sporting international non-governmental organisations).

Now in a fully updated and expanded fifth edition, this textbook introduces the power and politics of sport organizations to the readers.

This ground-breaking book provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between sports (and leisure), religion and disability.

Sport is frequently considered to be an aspect of popular culture that is, or should be, untainted by the political.

This book is the first of its kind to discuss doping within Non-Olympic Sports.

This book explores how cultural policies are reflected in the design, management and promotion of the Olympic Games.

For the record-breaking third time London will be hosting the Olympic Games in 2012.

A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education.

Since the advent of modernity, art has been associated with freedom, provocation and courage.

This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport.

The Berlin Olympics, August 14, 1936.

The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society.

The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler's Third Reich and international sporting competition.

1968 was a year of protest in civil society (Prague, Paris, Chicago) and a year of protest in sport.

Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's anticipated moment of glory on the world stage.

Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport.

This ground-breaking book provides fascinating insights into the fast-emerging body of research that explores the relationship between sport, theology and disability within a social justice framework.

By representing their experience of modernity as different from the West in their respective Olympic Games, Asian nations reveal much about the ambitions and anxieties of being an Asian host in the continuing western Olympic hegemony.

The Paralympic Games is the second largest multi-sport festival on earth and an event which poses profound and challenging questions about the nature of sport, disability and society.

The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights, offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through the framework of these events.

The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents.

The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history.

Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text on the emotive, complex and critical subject of performance enhancement and doping within sport.

The London 2012 Paralympic Games - the biggest, most accessible and best-attended games in the Paralympics' 64-year history - came with an explicit aim to "e;transform the perception of disabled people in society,"e; and use sport to contribute to "e;a better world for all people with a disability.

Being Disabled, Becoming a Champion is an accessible presentation of current European research on the most recent evolutions in sports for people with disabilities, demonstrating knowledge developed from the field of sports practices of people with disabilities.

In her extraordinary swimming career, Shirley Babashoff set thirty-nine national records and eleven world records.

When Canada hosted the 1976 Montreal Olympics, few Canadian spectators waved flags in the stands.

In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics.

What remains of a great sporting spectacle after the last race is run or the final match is played?

First published in 1910, this book explores the subject of athletics festivals in ancient Greece, looking in detail at its history as well as the exercises commonly seen at such occasions.

This book brings together academic work on Special Olympics and specifically on the social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities in various sport contexts and other areas of life, by ways of both empirical research and theoretically informed papers.

Passed from hand to hand, the Olympic flame has become one of the great symbols of sport.

Drugs in Sport is the most comprehensive and accurate text on the emotive, complex and critical subject of performance enhancement and doping within sport.

What are the social, political and economic consequences of staging sport mega events such as the Olympics and the World Cup?

This ground-breaking book provides a fascinating insight into the relationship between sports (and leisure), religion and disability.

This fascinating collection of essays explores the complex economic, political, cultural and social claims over sport, from multi-disciplinary perspectives including philosophy, history, political science and management.

The Olympic Games have become the world's greatest media and marketing event-a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash.

Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC.

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the 'roving colonialism' of sport mega-events.

Global Perspectives of Sport and Physical Culture is a compilation of diverse essays derived from the works of prominent international scholars that address significant international issues relative to sporting practices from a historical perspective.

Sport and architecture are two elements of contemporary life that have a broad and profound impact on the world around us.

This comprehensive collection provides an overview of social scientific perspectives on Olympic legacy, using specialist analyses and selected cases to illuminate the recurring anthropological, political, and sociological dimensions of the legacy debate.

Do the Paralympic Games empower the disability sport community?

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest.

Seit der Moderne steht die Kunst für Freiheit, Provokation und Mut.

The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games.

Sport sociology has a responsibility to engage critically with the accepted wisdom of those who govern and promote sport.