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| Acknowledgments | ||
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| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | The Mass Media: Olympic Industry Boosters and Critics | 13 |
| 2 | Police, Protest, and Olympic Legislation: "You've Got to Keep the Buggers under Control" | 43 |
| 3 | Black and White Australia: Reconciliation and Sydney 2000 | 67 |
| 4 | "You Can't Share the Spirit if You Can't Pay the Rent": Housing and Homelessness in the Olympic City | 89 |
| 5 | Olympic Values, Impacts, and Issues: The Real Legacy | 107 |
| 6 | Productive Partnerships: Corporatized Universities Meet the Olympic Industry | 133 |
| 7 | "I'm Not Against the Olympics, But ...": Local and Global Resistance | 151 |
| 8 | Bondi Beach Volleyball Stadium: The Battlers Lose the Beach | 183 |
| 9 | September 2000 in Melbourne and Sydney: Democracy at Risk | 203 |
| Conclusion | 227 | |
| Appendix | 233 | |
| References | 237 | |
| Index | 257 |
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Eileen Willems
reviewed The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000 on March 10, 2013
The Best Olympics Ever?
I enjoyed this book and thought it provided a useful survey of the various negative impacts of hosting the Olympics. I would have liked to see an account post-2010, though, so that the book could trace the story up to and including the Games themselves.
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