The Olympic Winter Games at 100
Author | : Sarah Teetzel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781032623184 |
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Author | : Sarah Teetzel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
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ISBN | : 9781032623184 |
Author | : Heather L. Dichter |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2023-12-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 100383129X |
2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games. This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century of the Olympic Winter Games. Grounded in sport history, the chapters in this volume draw on the disciplines of cultural history, diplomatic history, global history, environmental history, and media history to analyze the continued allure of the Winter Olympics, a century after its origin, and in light of the sustained and significant problems facing the Olympic movement. Host cities’ efforts to create positive and lasting legacies are analyzed to highlight the challenges and complexities that have plagued the Olympic movement throughout the last century. The Olympic Winter Games at 100 is essential reading for any researcher, advanced student or scholar with an interest in Olympic Studies, sports development, sport policy and history. The chapters in this book were published as two special issues in The International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author | : Gail Herman |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 059309378X |
Grab your skis, ice skates, and snowboard and learn how the Winter Olympic Games became a worldwide phenomenal event watched by millions. Although fans the world over have been fascinated by the modern Summer Olympics since 1896, the Winter Olympics didn't officially begin until 1924. The event celebrates cold-weather sports, displaying the talents of skiers, ice skaters, hockey players, and, most recently, snowboarding. Like its summer counterpart, the Winter Games are dedicated to bringing together the world's top athletes to honor their talents and see who gets to stand on the medal podium. Gail Herman covers it all in a wonderful read--the highs, such as the 1980 US hockey team's unexpected gold medal grab, as well as the lows, including the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan figure-skating scandal in 1994. Includes 80 black-and-white illustrations and a 16-page photo insert.
Author | : David C. Antonucci |
Publisher | : Booksurge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-03-28 |
Genre | : Olympic Winter Games |
ISBN | : 9781439259047 |
The only book devoted solely to chronicling the historic VIII Olympic Winter Games at Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe.
Author | : Bob Italia |
Publisher | : Abdo & Daughters |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Winter Olympics |
ISBN | : 9781562396961 |
Recounts memorable events from past Winter Olympic games from Eddie Eagan's gold medal in bobsledding at Lake Placid in 1932 to Tommy Moe's alpine skiing medal in 1994.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 908 |
Release | : 1977 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Economic Development Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 756 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Environmental impact statements |
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Author | : Martin Connors |
Publisher | : Visible Ink Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : |
Providing the same breadth of information offered in The Olympics Factbook--licensed by the US Olympic Committee and issued to every 1992 Winter American Olympian--this all-new guide launches the reader into February, 1994, with facts, stats, rules, and profiles of the athletes. 100 photos.
Author | : Adam Berg |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2023-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1477326472 |
A look back at how powerful politicians, business leaders, and a diverse cast of activists used a thwarted Olympics to shape the state of Colorado and the city of Denver. If you don’t recall the 1976 Denver Olympic Games, it’s because they never happened. The Mile-High City won the right to host the winter games and then was forced by Colorado citizens to back away from its successful Olympic bid through a statewide ballot initiative. Adam Berg details the powerful Colorado regime that gained the games for Denver and the grassroots activism that brought down its Olympic dreams, and he explores the legacy of this milestone moment for the games and politics in the United States. The ink was hardly dry on Denver’s host agreement when Mexican American and African American urbanites, white middle-class environmentalists, and fiscally concerned local politicians realized opposition to the Olympics provided them new political openings. The Olympics quickly became a platform for taking stands on a range of issues, from conservation to urban livability to the very idea of growth, which for decades had been unquestioned in Colorado. The Olympics That Never Happened argues that hostility to the Olympics galvanized and empowered diverse citizens in a major US city, with long-term ramifications for Colorado and political activism elsewhere. The Olympics themselves were changed forever, compelling organizers to take seriously competing interests from subgroups within their communities.
Author | : Holger Preuß |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2018-12-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 365824996X |
In this open access book the cost and revenue overruns of Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to PyeongChang 2018 from eight years before the Games to Games‐time are investigated to provide a base for future host cities. The authors evaluated the development of expenditure and revenues of the organizing committees to operate the event, and the investment of taxpayers’ money for Olympic venues (non‐OCOG budget). The study is based on data collected worldwide and is currently the most advanced study on cost and revenue changes of Olympic Games.