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Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended - Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational (Paperback)
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Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended - Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's
most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit
for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American
universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the
1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied
the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the
energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television,
funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to
garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to
gargantuan dimensions. In the course of its epic history, the
Olympics have left numerous legacies, from unforgettable feats to
monumental stadiums, from shining triumphs to searing tragedies,
from the dazzling debuts on the world's stage of new cities and
nations to notorious campaigns of national propaganda. The Olympics
represent an essential component of modern global history. The
Olympic movement itself has, since the 1990s, recognized and sought
to shape its numerous legacies with mixed success as this book
makes clear. It offers ground-breaking analyses of the power of
Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject
from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and indeed beyond. This
book was published as a special issue of the International Journal
of the History of Sport.
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