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Introduction Part One: Studying Olympism 1. Studying Olympism, Vassil Girginov Part Two: Documenting Olympism 2. Post-olympism? Questioning Olympic historiography, Douglas Booth 3. From Olympia 776 BC to Athens 2004: The Origins and Authenticity of the Modern Olympic Games, David Young 4. Olympic Games and Historical Imagination, Mark Dyreson Part Three: Theorising Olympism 5. A Never-ending story: The Philosophical controversy over Olympism, Lamartin da Costa 6. Olympic Games and the Theory of Spectacle in Modern Societies, John MacAloon 7. The Olympics and ‘Global Citizenship’, Maurice Roche Part Four: Negotiating Olympic identities 8. Hellenism and Olympism: Pierre de Coubertin and the Greek Challenges to the Early Olympic Movement, Dikaia Chatziefstathiou and Ian Henry 9. Staging the Nation: Gendered and Ethnicized Discourses of National Identity in Olympic Opening Ceremonies, Jackie Hogan Part Five: Imagining Olympism 10. Meet the "framers": the Olympic producers, Andrew Billings 11. Olympic Museum, Daryl Adair 12. Paralympic "lived history": reflections of a participant-observer, David Howe Part Six: Owning Olympism 13. A brief overview of the Olympic system, Jean-Loup Chappelet and Brenda Kübler-Mabbott 14. Who Owns the Olympics? Political Economy and Critical Moments in the Modern Games, Michael Real 15. On Seizing the Olympic Platform, Monroe Price Part Seven: Staging the Olympics 16. Financing of the Games: interests, winners and losers, Holger Preus 17. Olympic Cities: Regeneration, City Rebranding and Changing Urban Agendas, John Gold, J. and Margaret Gold Part Eight: Promoting Olympism 18. ‘Celebrate Humanity’ or ‘consumerism’: A critical evaluation of a brand in motion, Joseph Maguire, Sarah Barnard, Katie Butler and Peter Golding 19. Symbolism and the effectiveness of Olympic mascots Ina Freeman, Peter Knight and Norman O’Reilly Part Nine: Safeguarding Olympism 20. Why Olympic Athletes Should Avoid the Use and Seek the Elimination of Performance-Enhancing Substances and Practices From the Olympic Games, Angela Schneider and Robert Butcher 21. Mega Events, Fear and Risk: Terrorism at the Olympic Games, Kristine Toohey and Tracy Taylor 22. Faster, Higher, Stronger: The protection of Olympic marks leading up to Vancouver 2010, Teresa Scassa Part Ten: Contesting Olympism 23. Does One-World Olympic Ideology Lead to Multiculturalism?, Vassil Girginov 24. Olympic Impacts on Bid and Host Cities, Helen Lenskyi Part Eleven: Teaching Olympism 25. "Olympism" revisited as Context for Global Education: Implications for Physical Education, Deanna Binder 26. Didactic Approaches to Teaching Olympic Education, Roland Naul Part Twelve: Sustaining Olympism 27. The Making of the IOC environmental Policy as the third dimension of the Olympic Movement, Hart Cantelon and Michael Letters 28. A Sustainable Sports Legacy: Creating a Link between the London Olympics and Sports Participation,Vassil Girginov and Laura Hills
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David Kennedy
reviewed The Olympics: A Critical Reader on September 19, 2016
The Olympics
It was the Olympics of Cassius Clay, Wilma Rudolph, Rafer Johnson, and Abebe Bikila. It was the Olympics with the first drug scandal and it was the first Olympics to be telecast. Also, it was the first Olympics where an athlete was paid to wear a certain brand of shoes. All played out against the backdrop of the Eternal City and the Cold War.
Do not forbid what you cannot prevent.
1960 saw the beginning of the end of "amateurism" for Olympic athletes. It was already clear that the Soviets and their satellite nations were fully subsidizing their teams, while the West participants were realizing there was a new age to behold for post-Olympic marketing. In many ways, the Rome Olympics were an end of the old and the start of the new. There was still an elite old-boyism flair at play, but the Ethiopian victory in the marathon, run by Bikila in his bare feet, meant new competition from developing countries. Capitalism was rushing in from one side and Communism from the other side.
Prior to reading this book, I knew nothing about the 1960 Olympics and almost nothing about the stars. Muhammad Ali did not exist yet; Clay was just a kid from Louisville who loved attention and glory. Wilma Rudolph exemplified the predicament of most female Olympians in that she was expected to be successful yet still appear feminine. Italy was going through its economic revival and the remnants of WWII were finally disappearing. All in all, it's a fascinating history, especially when one considers how the Olympics are now financial cripplers focused more on opening ceremonies than on catching drug cheats. This book brings us back to a simpler time, enough that I have added the documentary to my watchlist. It's a good book, albeit so full of different names from different countries that I got a bit mixed-up (which I suspect is more my fault than the author's).
It was also a reminder of how much pain and toil each Olympian endures, only to be forgotten by the next event.
That is how most Olympic athletes finish, unknown and unseen, away from the glare of media hype and patriotic hope.
Book Season = Summer (sweltering)
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