Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China - China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong - competed at each of the ten Summer Olympics.
A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events.
Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China - China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong - competed at each of the ten Summer Olympics.
This book offers a critical examination of the 2023 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women's World Cup, being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
This book offers a critical examination of the 2023 Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women's World Cup, being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events.
This book examines the new geopolitical economy of football, exploring the intersection of money, politics, and power in the world's most popular sport.
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.
'The Ultimate Directory of English and Scottish Football Grounds (1888-2005)' is a 240 page best selling book (with several reprints since it was first published in 2005), which provides the reader with information relating to the 323 grounds in total (206 in England and 117 in Scotland) on which League matches have been played from the first, in 1888.
This book explores the contemporary dynamics of European football's political economy, mapping the various market and regulatory forces that shape its current position and development.
Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus combines in-depth analysis of the rapidly developing sport media industry with a clear and straightforward guide to practical sport media management skills.
Hubo un tiempo, los primeros años del siglo XX, en que el fútbol no era parte de la vida cotidiana de la mayoría de los argentinos: se jugaba en los colegios ingleses para fomentar la disciplina, e informalmente en algunos barrios por el gusto del desafío y el honor del vecindario.
Becoming Big League is the story of Seattle's relationship with major league baseball from the 1962 World's Fair to the completion of the Kingdome in 1976 and beyond.
In this deeply personal memoir in the vein of Andre Agassi's Open and Megan Rapinoes One Life, the winningest snowboarder of all time chronicles her career, a story of self-growth that reveals the secret of her resilience and how she overcame crushing early failure to win Olympic gold.
Join Lioness captain Leah Williamson as she shows girls that they can be a leader at any age, and that huge things can happen when they believe in themselves!
Contemporary sport could not function without the involvement of voluntary organizations, from local grass-roots clubs to international agencies such as the International Olympic Committee.
The book aims to outline the progress, problems and challenges of delivering a safe and secure Olympics in the context of the contemporary serious and enduring terrorist threat.
From Major League Baseball to English soccer's Premier League, all successful contemporary professional sports leagues include a wide diversity of nationalities and ethnicities within their playing and coaching rosters.
The growing complexity and importance of sports and event marketing has pushed scholars and practitioners to apply sophisticated marketing thinking and applications to these topics.
The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life.
The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life.
As the only American in the senior management team of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, Jeff Ruffolo takes you behind the scenes and into a world no one has ever before witnessed.
The political tension of the Cold War bled into the Olympic Games when each side engaged in psychological warfare, exploiting sport for political ends.
The Routledge Handbook on Sports Law and Governance provides a definitive guide to the regulation of international and national sport through the lens of both regulatory, governance and legal frameworks.
The pentathlon, comprising competition in the discus, javelin, long jump, sprint, and wrestling, was hailed as the ultimate test of athletic versatility and remained a staple of the ancient Greek Olympic Games, Crown Games and Pan-Hellenic festivals for 1,200 years.
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.
Olympic skiing champion Nikki Stone shares her own inspirational story and those of Tommy Hilfiger, Steve Young, Lindsey Vonn, Lester Holt, and others .