Olympic and Paralympic games

London bid leader and British Olympic hero Sebastian Coe, Tony Blair and David Beckham all played a part in winning the most competitive race for the Games in Olympic history.

Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor.

A Cultural History of Sport in the Modern Age covers the period 1920 to today.

This book examines the initial impact of the coronavirus pandemic on global sport and the varying consequences of the sport shutdown on all levels of society.

Hosting the Olympic Games reveals the true costs involved for the cities that hold these large-scale sporting events.

As the World's greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games has always commanded intrigue, analysis and comment in equal measure.

Cross-cultural management is an important facet of the globalized sport industry.

With a show-jumping career spanning over forty years, Nick Skelton is a legend in the equestrian world.

Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC.

From the Olympic Games to community-level competitions, sports events can be complex and pose a particular set of managerial challenges.

Using sources from a wide variety of print and digital media, this book discusses the need for ample and healthy portrayals of disability and neurodiversity in the media, as the primary way that most people learn about conditions.

Prior to the outbreak of World War II, the British presided over the largest Empire in world history, a vast transoceanic and transcontinental realm of dominions, colonies, protectorates and mandates that covered over one-quarter of the world's land mass and comprised a population of over 450-million subjects.

Schillerndes Panorama einer ganzen Epoche, glänzend erzähltRaus aus den Schatten der NS-Zeit, den Wiederaufbau geschafft - 1972 reißt Deutschland die Fenster auf.

*Winner of the North American Society for Sport History 2024 Anthology Book Award*This is the first book to focus on race, sport, protest, and the Black Atlantic.

Sport dominates television and the mass media.

This innovative study examines the Olympic programme from a critical feminist perspective, to shed new light on the issues of gender and inclusion at the Olympic Games and in the Olympic Movement.

This book celebrates two important aspects of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other hand, from a desire to bring the Balkan peoples together in peace and concord.

The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans.

This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation.

Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor.

This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation.

This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of sport policy, elite sports system, sport media, sport facility management and sport social development in the two host countries - China and Britain.

The Balkan Games resulted on the one hand from the growth of modern European sport and the unsatisfactory performances of the Balkan athletes at national and international level, and on the other hand, from a desire to bring the Balkan peoples together in peace and concord.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia.

Set against the backdrop of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, this book examines the impact on public policy from broader political decisions taken in relation to Olympic- and Paralympic-related policy.

Acknowledging China's established status as a global sporting superpower, this is the first book to systematically investigate sport policy in that country.

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

When the athletes enter the stadium and the Olympic flame is lit, the whole world watches.

Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports federations and governments in the development of effective elite sport systems, particularly focused on achieving success in the summer and winter Olympic Games.

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history.

What does it really take to make the podium?

The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport for political ends.

"e;A clear-eyed, critical examination of the social, political, and economic costs of hosting the 2016 summer OlympicsThe selection of Rio de Janeiro as the site of the summer 2016 Olympic Games set off jubilant celebrations in Brazil-and created enormous expectations for economic development and the advancement of Brazil as a major player on the world stage.

London hosted the Olympic Games for the third time in 2012, a mega-event where the political, economic and social expectations could hardly be compared with the previous London Games of 1908 and 1948.

An inspiring true story of an athlete overcoming obstacles and unimaginable setbacks with resilience, faith, and the power of refusing to accept limits.

The Pan American Games, second only to the Olympics as the biggest international sports competition in the world, are held every four years (during the year prior to the Summer Olympics) under the sponsorship of the International Olympic Committee.

Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports federations and governments in the development of effective elite sport systems, particularly focused on achieving success in the summer and winter Olympic Games.

This edition stresses some critical reflectons regarding security policies before and during Sport Events in our contemporary era of generalized insecurity.

This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields to explore the ways in which visual culture has shaped, and continues to impact upon, our understanding of sport as an integral element within popular culture.

This handbook offers an important and timely contribution to the interdisciplinary field of Olympic studies.

Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences.

How do Olympic legacies come about?

Essentials of Cerebral Palsy Football introduces the reader to the practice of Cerebral Palsy (CP) football.

Narrated in alternating voices by mother Nancy and sister Elizabeth, Go, Gwen, Go is an inspiring story about Olympian Gwen Jorgensen and her family.

Advances in technology have always had a significant impact on sport.

60 years of observation: an American journalists memoir about Tokyos modern urban transformation, its criminal underworld and, oh yes, baseball.