1st Edition

The Olympic Winter Games at 100 Challenges, Complexities, and Legacies

Edited By Heather L. Dichter, Sarah Teetzel Copyright 2024
394 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

394 Pages
by Routledge

2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games. This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past... Read more

Introduction - A Century of Olympics on Ice and Snow

Heather L. Dichter and Sarah Teetzel

 

Part I: Challenges and Complexities of the Olympic Winter Games

1.     Olympic Winter Games, ‘Cold Sports’, and Inclusive Values
Irena Martínková and Jim Parry

2.     Summer Meets Winter: African Nations Participating at the Winter Olympics, 1960–2018
Cobus Rademeyer

3.     The Cool Runnings Effect: Flexible Citizenship, the Global South, and Transcultural Republics at the Winter Olympic Games
Tom Fabian

4.     Lost in the Vault?: Demonstration Sports at the Winter Olympics and How Digital Media Can Bring Them ‘Back to the Future’
Xavier Ramon, Qingru Xu and Andrew C. Billings

5.     Snowboarding Youth Culture and the Winter Olympics: Co-Evolution in an American-Driven Show
Anne Barjolin-Smith

6.     Planning for Legacy in the Post-War Era of the Olympic Winter Games
Laura A. Brown

Part II: National and Local Aspirations to Host Winter Games

7.     The Icy Road towards the First Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix 1924
Pedro Pérez-Aragón and Alejandro Viuda-Serrano

8.     Canadian Government Involvement in Calgary’s Failed 1968 Winter Olympic Bid
Heather L. Dichter

9.     The Games That Never Happened: Social Reception and Press Coverage of the Kraków Bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics (2012–2014)
Michał Mazurkiewicz

10.  Winter Olympic Referendums: Reasons for Opposition to the Games
Jean-Loup Chappelet

Part III: Politics and Diplomacy at the Games

11.  The 1928 Olympic Winter Games in St Moritz: Tourism, Diplomacy and Domestic Politics
Quentin Tonnerre

12.  Grenoble 1968, Albertville 1992, and the Establishment of a Strategy to Protect and Market the Winter Olympic Emblems
Pierre-Olaf Schut, Natalia Bazoge and Sandie Beaudouin

13.  A Tale of Two Medals: The USA, Olympic Ice Hockey and Popular American Views of Détente (1972) and Renewed Cold War (1980)
John Soares

Part IV: Environmental, Physical, and Social Legacies

14.  The 1952 and 1994 Olympic Flames: Norway’s Quest for Winter Olympic Identity
Matti Goksøyr and Gaute Heyerdahl

15.  The Environmental Reimagining of Olympic Sarajevo
Zlatko Jovanovic

16.  ‘A Strong, Sustainable Legacy:’ The Environment and Japan’s Winter Olympics
Robin Kietlinski

17.  Olympic Winter Games in Non-Western Cities: State, Sport and Cultural Diplomacy in Sochi 2014, PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022
Jung Woo Lee

Conclusion - The Future of Olympic Winter Games Research
Sarah Teetzel and Heather L. Dichter

Biography

Heather L. Dichter is Associate Professor of Sport History and Sport Management in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK.

Sarah Teetzel is Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management and Senior Fellow of St. John’s College at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.