TY - BOOK AU - Molnar, Gyozo AU - Bairner, Alan TI - The politics of the Olympics: a survey SN - 9781857434941 U1 - 320 PY - 2010/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Olympics -- Political aspects KW - Sports and state KW - Olympic Games N1 - 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 -- ER -