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On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud
Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell
from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to
rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though
certainly not the first instance of doping in the Olympic Games,
Jensen's death serves as the starting point for Thomas M. Hunt's
thoroughly researched, chronological history of the modern
relationship of doping to the Olympics. Utilizing concepts derived
from international relations theory, diplomatic history, and
administrative law, this work connects the issue to global
political relations. During the Cold War, national governments had
little reason to support effective anti-doping controls in the
Olympics. Both the United States and the Soviet Union
conceptualized power in sport as a means of impressing both friends
and rivals abroad. The resulting medals race motivated nations on
both sides of the Iron Curtain to allow drug regulatory powers to
remain with private sport authorities. Given the costs involved in
testing and the repercussions of drug scandals, these authorities
tried to avoid the issue whenever possible. But toward the end of
the Cold War, governments became more involved in the issue of
testing. Having historically been a combined scientific, ethical,
and political dilemma, obstacles to the elimination of doping in
the Olympics are becoming less restrained by political inertia.
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The Shade (Paperback)
Thomas M Hunt
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R374
R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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Out of the desert a swordsman comes and our hopes are riding with
him. Rohan, the Shadow, the last of the dreaded Slingers comes out
of the desert of his desolated world unaware that the time fro
redemption has come. The Balance has been disturbed and the
Adversary is coming. Oblivious of what's invested in him Rohan is
bent on his self-imposed, impossible quest: to catch a blond
sorcerer, the man who betrayed them all, and bring him to justice.
But in the Slinger's world nothing is what it seems, the past and
present intertwine, Earth's fate makes its own demands and the
Histories of all possible worlds begin to feel the effect of the
disruption that is the Adversary's work and interfere in Rohan's
plans. So, burdened by a Blood Bond and the cries of the dead from
the Nameless Town, the Slinger is forced to continue his quest with
Letitia, the courtesan, from the accursed House of the Rose, and
Lt. Joseph Brendan who flew over a volcano and found himself
consigned to Hell. On and on, the strange trio go, guided by the
muddled words of the Oracle read by the Book of Changes, doomed to
make the final trip beneath the Iron Mountains and face the corpses
that cannot die and through...to the other side, where the truth of
what has happened must be revealed and Rohan's quest vindicated.
And all the time the Plan unfolds, the Balance teeters, as Rohan is
forced to make hard choices, new sacrifices, each step leading him
to the battleground where the ultimate Armageddon is to be fought.
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