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