Olympic and Paralympic games

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

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

In the 1960s, Bruce Kidd was one of Canada's most celebrated athletes.

On the fortieth anniversary of the historic "e;Miracle on Ice,"e; Mike Eruzionethe captain of the 1980 U.

Neeraj Chopra was born into a modest family in the village of Khandra, in Panipat district, where agriculture was the primary occupation.

Olympic Tourism is the first text to focus on the nature of Olympic tourism and the potential for the Olympic Games to generate tourism in the run up to and long after the hosting of a Games.

As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated.

Sport, Geld, Macht, Manipulation – Thomas BachDas Gesicht des IOC ist ein Deutscher.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018The uplifting, feel-good autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the Olympic gold-medal winning Fijian rugby team It is late summer 2013.

One of the Boston Globe’s Best Sports Books of the Year: “Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny” (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man).

Encoding the Olympics assembles a uniquely representative international team of media experts to provide a comprehensive review of the global impact of media and cultural communications associated with the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

The book focuses on the distinctive contribution that Joseph Maguire has made to process sociology and the study of sport.

The Olympic Games is undoubtedly the greatest sporting event in the world, with over 200 countries competing for success.

When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes.

Case Studies in Sport Communication: You Make the Call goes beyond the box scores by offering readers the opportunity to evaluate popular and diverse issues in sport-including management, crisis, health, ethics, gender, race, and social media.

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.

Canada's first Olympic gold medallist couldn't walk until he was ten, and became the greatest runner of his generation.

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.

A glorious, fully illustrated celebration of the London 2012 Olympic Games, with expert analysis and comment from The Times' cast of sporting experts and brought to life with sumptuous, award-winning photographsThe London 2012 Olympic Games are one of the great success stories not just in British sport but beyond that.

This book advances an alternative critical posthumanist approach to mega-event organisation, taking into account both the new and the old crises which humanity and our planet face.

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

The Olympic Sports Economy incorporates exclusive case studies and reports from sports management conferences to illustrate the most important business practices and trends of the Olympics today.

Sporting mega-events habitually spawn protests from local groups discommoded by the building of new infrastructure, environmental lobbies contesting the long-term legacies of such events, and expressions of outrage at the expenditure of public funds on events often restricted to an elite selection of participants and spectators.

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games.

This edited collection contains six refreshing critical assessments of the leisure-sport relationship from societies that have staged the Olympic and Paralympic Games and contains valuable information for those who live in societies that aspire to host the Games.

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

This is a book for any Individual who wants to succeed.

The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial.

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

In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote.

First published in 1874, "e;The Extant Odes of Pindar"e; contains a complete collection of all known odes written by Ancient Greek lyric poet Pindar.

For Olympic athletes, fans and the media alike, the games bring out the best sport has to offer--unity, patriotism, friendly competition and the potential for stunning upsets.

This dictionary contains 2,375 Russian sayings and proverbs and their English counterparts.

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

Sports participation opportunities for individuals with impairments are increasing.

Donald Osborne Finlay, a sporting name familiar to households in the 1930s, was Britain’s greatest athlete of the time; a hurdler whose triumphant exploits graced the sports pages and newsreels week after week.

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.

On 4 August 2012 Jessica Ennis kicked off what some described as the greatest night in British sporting history.

When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes.

This empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events.

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 book presents an overview on sport history research in Europe by giving insights into various topics between Europe's south and north.

In 2008 China plans to use the Olympic Games to remake its national identity in the global marketplace.

Sport and peacemaking have evolved.

In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre of the German Sport University organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies.

According to legend, the ancient Olympic Games were founded by Heracles (the Roman Hercules), a son of Zeus.

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

Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure and on Olympic sport can be expanded.

Realpolitik as a component of the Olympic Games held in East Asia has been largely ignored by historians.

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.