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The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. Much of the success is credited to the influence of Viktor Balck, who is remembered as "The Father of Swedish Sports." The 1912 Olympics also featured new innovations and events. A semiautomatic electrical timing device and a photo-finish camera were used, and the decathlon and modern pentathalon were new events. This work, the sixth in a series on the early Olympics, provides unusually extensive information on the sites, dates, competitors, and nations of the Stockholm games. Results for each event, including cycling, diving, fencing, rowing and sculling, shooting, tennis, water polo, and yachting, among others, are provided.
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Tony Nurtoin
reviewed The 1912 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary on July 27, 2013 The 1912 Olympic Games
As someone who was only familiar with the iconic fists-in-the-air image of Tommie Smith and John Carlos the 1968 Olympics, but not of the stories behind their action, this served as a good, easy-to-read introduction. The downsides were that the race analysis was thin and, though Hoffer criticizes the '68 press for its neglect of women athletes in that year's Games, he mostly does the same. The female Olympians are mentioned as frequently for their roles as dates or wives to male Olympians as they are for their athletic feats.
That said, the parallels to today's sports protests and the consequences faced by outspoken athletes make it a good time to check out this book. Sports and politics have always been intertwined.
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