1st Edition

The Politics of the Olympics A Survey

Edited By Alan Bairner, Gyozo Molnar Copyright 2010
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

The Politics of the Olympics: A Survey  provides information on and analysis of the relationship between politics and the Olympic Games. It is argued and demonstrated throughout the book that sport and politics have been and are intimately connected and nowhere is this relationship more apparent than in the Olympic Games. The essay chapters, including an editorial introduction, are... Read more

The Politics of the Olympics: An Introduction Alan Bairner and Gyozo Molnar  Olympic Power, Olympic Politics: Behind the Scenes Helen Jefferson Lenskyj  The Politics of Hosting the Olympic Games John Horne  Politics of Gender Through the Olympics: The Changing Nature of Women’s Involvement in the Olympics Susan J. Bandy  The Politics of Performance Enhancement in the Olympic Games Rob Beamish  Disability, Olympism and Paralympism P. David Howe  The Olympics and Terrorism  David L. Andrews, Jaime Schultz and Michael L. Silk  Berlin 1936 Christopher Young The Olympics and the Cold War: An Eastern European Perspective Miklós Hadas  The Olympics in the Post-Soviet Era: The Case of the Two Koreas Jung Woo Lee  Taiwanese Identities and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Ping-Chao Lee, Alan Bairner and Tien-Chin Tan A–Z glossary Alan Bairner and Gyozo Molnar

Biography

Alan Bairner, Gyozo Molnar