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The Olympics and the Cold War, 1948-1968 - Sport as Battleground in the U.S.-Soviet Rivalry (Paperback)
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The Olympics and the Cold War, 1948-1968 - Sport as Battleground in the U.S.-Soviet Rivalry (Paperback)
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For Olympic athletes, fans, and media alike, the Games often bring
out the best that sport has to offer: unity, nationalism, friendly
competition - and the potential for an upset. However, wherever
international competition occurs, politics are never far from the
front lines. Perhaps this was never truer than during the early
Cold War, during which all interactions between the United States
and the Soviet Union were treated as matters of life and death.
This not only affected the Games themselves but each side tried to
manipulate the International Olympic Committee behind the scenes.
Despite the IOC's best efforts to keep the Olympics apolitical,
they were drawn very quickly into this all-encompassing battle for
supremacy, this time with the medal count as the ultimate prize.
Both the Olympic Movement and the superpowers, as the Games gained
greater social/political relevance from the shared fixation on the
medal count while Moscow and Washington an exciting new arena for
staging their battles for hearts and minds. Based on IOC, US
government, and contemporary media sources, this book looks at six
consecutive Olympiads to show just how high the stakes became once
the Soviets began competing - and threatening America's traditional
athletic supremacy - in 1952.
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