Olympic and Paralympic games

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.

Em "A Usina da Força Mental 1 + 2", Sami Duymaz, também conhecido como Samuel Samiris, investiga os segredos da inteligência emocional e mostra maneiras práticas de fortalecer a resiliência mental.

This multidisciplinary text is a comprehensive introduction to the central themes and background of the modern Games.

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the world's greatest sporting and cultural event.

'Athletes first' is a slogan the International Olympic Committee often touts, but the reality is very different, as pre-eminent Olympics expert Jules Boykoff shows in this book.

This book explores, in breadth and depth, the role of sport in museums.

Fastest, Highest, Strongest presents a comprehensive challenge to the dominant orthodoxy concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport.

This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights.

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement.

It is difficult to fully understand the role that sport plays in contemporary global society without understanding how and why governments, NGOs and other organizations formulate and implement policy relating to sport.

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

Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity.

Olympic skiing champion Nikki Stone shares her own inspirational story and those of Tommy Hilfiger, Steve Young, Lindsey Vonn, Lester Holt, and others .

The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world.

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

For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement.

Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics.

Dropping the Torch: Jimmy Carter, the Olympic Boycott, and the Cold War offers a diplomatic history of the 1980 Olympic boycott.

The right to participate in sports and competitive athletics is more than an issue of fair play--it's a matter of human rights.

Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy.

What fears are standing in your way or holding you back?

The Pan-American Games, begun officially in 1951 in Buenos Aires and held in every region of the western hemisphere, have become one of the largest multi-sport games in the world.

Of all winter sports, none is so widely watched and commented upon by the media as figure skating, which is often considered the Winter Olympics' centerpiece.

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.

This book examines the political significance of sport and its importance for nation-state building and political and economic transition across thirteen post-Soviet and post-socialist countries, primarily located in Eastern Europe.

"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.

The collection starts from the premise that Olympism and the Olympic Games make sense only when they are placed within the broader national, colonial and post colonial contexts and argues that sport not only influences politics and vice-versa, but that the two are inseparable.

Going far beyond being just a mega sport event, the Olympic Games are, and have been in the past, important settings for tourism and cultural change.

La formidable ascension d'un Québécois dans une discipline dominée par les Scandinaves Fils de Pierre Harvey – icône du sport canadien en cyclisme et en ski de fond –, Alex Harvey s'est brillamment affranchi du poids de son patronyme pour devenir l'un des athlètes de chez nous les plus admirés.

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.

Mexico City's staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico's post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at ease with itself played proud host to a global celebration of youthful vigour.

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.

It is the early Cold War.

The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well known international multisport gathering--but since 1896, hundreds of other competitions based on the Olympic Games model have been established whose histories have not been well documented.

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the world's greatest sporting and cultural event.

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

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

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement's promotion of Olympic ideals internationally.

This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history and development of sport from the ancient to the contemporary era in China.

*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.

In late 1998 and the early months of 1999, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was an organization in crisis.

The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement is the first book-length scholarly study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay.

After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was temporarily withdrawn from international competition.

The 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games stand as the most profitable and arguably the most important event in the history of the modern Olympic movement.

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.

The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial.

The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world.

The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the first authoritative and comprehensive account of the world's greatest sporting and cultural event.

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