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Power Games
Author | : Jules Boykoff |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2016-05-17 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1784780731 |
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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.