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The politics of the Olympics: a survey/ edited by Alan Bairner, Gyozo Molnar. - London: Routledge, 2010. - xv, 245 p.: ill. maps

Map: Summer and Winter Olympic Games host venues --
Essays --

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 --


ISBN: 9781857434941

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Olympics -- Political aspects
Sports and state
Olympic Games

Dewey Class. No.: 320 / BAI/T