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The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective Book

Covers the Olympic phenomenon from political economical and sociological perspectives from its history and the media to commercialism and drug use. This book is a useful reading for researchers and students in leisure and sports studies.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    The Olympic Games: A Social Science Perspective presents a broad, multi-disciplinary account of all things Olympic from the relationship of the modern to the ancient games, to the possible future of the grandest of athletic spectacles.

  • Product Description

    This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the Olympic Games using a multi-disciplinary social science approach. This revised edition contains much new data relating to the Sydney 2000 Games and their aftermath; and preparations for Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Games. The book is broad-ranging and independent in its coverage, and includes the use of drugs, sex testing, accusations of power abuse among members of the IOC, the Games as a stage for political protest, media-related controversies, economic costs and benefits of the Games and historical conflicts between organizers and host communities.

  • 184593346X
  • 9781845933463
  • Kristine Toohey, A.J. Veal
  • 1 November 2007
  • CABI Publishing
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 368
  • 2nd edition
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