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A Political History Of The Olympic Games

By:David B Kanin
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Print ISBN:9780367168421
eText ISBN:9780429724312
Edition:1
Copyright:1981
Format:Reflowable

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The turmoil surrounding the 1980 Olympic Games, says the author, was nothing new--it was merely the most recent, and most complex, manifestation of the political content of modern sport. Despite the mythology perpetrated by Olympic publicists, the modern Olympic Games were founded with expressly political goals in mind and continue to thrive on tie