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The Man Who Made History - The Neeraj Chopra Story

by Norris Pritam

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 <i>The Man Who Made History</i> tells the amazing story that followed, put together, for the first time, from the accounts of his family and friends. It is a testament to the indomitable spirit of a young athlete who enthused an entire country.
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The Olympic Winter Games At 100 - Challenges, Complexities, And Legacies

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 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.
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The Best Olympics Ever? - Social Impacts Of Sydney 2000

by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

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 Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.
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The Complete Results & Line-Ups Of The Olympic Football Tournaments 1900-2024

by Marcel Haisma

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 This book contains a complete match-by-match statistical record and brief overview of the football tournaments played in all 31 Olympiads.
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Record Breakers At The Olympic Games

by Rob Walker

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 The most comprehensive children's book about the Summer Olympic Games, charting the best achievements, records and stories from the history of the largest international sporting tournament - publishing in the run-up to the 2024 Paris Games.
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Special Olympics - Inclusion Debates And Equity In Sport

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 The book brings academic work on Special Olympics and social inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities, through empirical research and theoretically informed papers. It contributes to participatory approaches to research.
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Hockey'S Hidden Gods - The Untold Story Of A Paralympic Miracle On Ice

by S. C. Megale

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 Hockeyâ€™s Hidden Gods is the incredible true story of the U.S. Paralympic sled hockey team that overcame personal hardships to win gold. The moving stories of the individual players, told through original interviews with the author, bring to life this uplifting and little-known piece of sports history.
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The Race

by Roy Peachey

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 Lili, a young athlete in present day, and Olympic hero Eric Liddell in 1944, prepare for the race of their lives in this inspiring dual narrative about sport and perseverance.
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Bearing Light: Flame Relays And The Struggle For The Olympic Movement

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 This extended ethnological research offers a rare case study of continuity and change in the Olympic torch relay, a leading transnational and trans-cultural ritual form. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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Sport Development And Olympic Studies - Past, Present, And Future

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 In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies. The presentations and discussions they engendered, identifying new international collaborative research fields and deepening research on the Olympics, Olympic Movement and sport development, resulted in this book.
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Rethinking Olympic Legacy

by Vassil (Brunel University London, Uk) Girginov

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 This book shifts the focus from legacy as a retrospective concept concerned with what has been left behind after the Olympic Games to a prospective one, interested in the actions and interactions stimulated by them. It challenges our current understanding of legacy and reveals the for social change.
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The Olympic Movement And The Middle East And North Africa Region

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 This book offers different insights into the study of the Olympic Movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
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Olympics In Conflict - From The Games Of The New Emerging Forces To The Rio Olympics

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 This book explores the transformation of the Olympics over the past decades and explains how the Olympic movement played its part in world politics, the world economy and international relations. The chapters published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.
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Understanding The Olympics

by Garry Whannel e John Horne

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 How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical and economic context of the Games.
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The Fastest Men On Earth - The Inside Stories Of The Olympic Men'S 100m Champions

by Neil Duncanson

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 It takes just under ten seconds to run, but the results of the Olympic men's 100 metres are etched forever into history. These are the stories of the 25 athletes who've been crowned champions in the event, and earned the coveted title of 'Fastest Man on Earth'.
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Understanding The Olympics

by Garry Whannel e John Horne

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 How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society? What will be the impact and legacy of the Olympics after Tokyo in 2020? Understanding the Olympics answers all these questions by exploring the social, cultural, political, historical and economic context of the Games.
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Sport Development And Olympic Studies - Past, Present, And Future

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 In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies. The presentations and discussions they engendered, identifying new international collaborative research fields and deepening research on the Olympics, Olympic Movement and sport development, resulted in this book.
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Three Seconds In Munich - The Controversial 1972 Olympic Basketball Final

by David A. F. Sweet

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 Through interviews with many of the American players and others, this book relates the horror of terrorism, the pain of losing the most controversial championship game in sports history to a hated rival, and the consequences of the players' decision to shun their Olympic medals to this day.
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The Olympic Movement And The Middle East And North Africa Region

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 This book offers different insights into the study of the Olympic Movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.
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Seoul Glow - The Story Behind Britain'S 1988 Olympic Hockey Gold

by Rod Gilmour

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 Seoul Glow tells the story of the Great Britain men's hockey team who won gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The final caught the British public's imagination as they beat rivals West Germany in the gold-medal match. It led BBC commentator Barry Davies to utter the now infamous line: 'Where were the Germans? But, frankly, who cares?'
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Rethinking Olympic Legacy

by Vassil (Brunel University London, Uk) Girginov

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 This book shifts the focus from legacy as a retrospective concept concerned with what has been left behind after the Olympic Games to a prospective one, interested in the actions and interactions stimulated by them. It challenges our current understanding of legacy and reveals the potential of Olympism as a powerful catalyst for social change.
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Olympics In Conflict - From The Games Of The New Emerging Forces To The Rio Olympics

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 This book explores the transformation of the Olympics over the past decades and explains how the Olympic movement played its part in world politics, the world economy and international relations. The chapters published as a special issue in the International Journal of the History of Sport.
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The History Makers - How Team Gb Stormed To A First Ever Gold In Women'S Hockey

by Richard Stainthorpe e Sarah Juggins

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 This story starts with Great Britain women's hockey team's dismal failure to qualify for the 2004 Olympics and culminates in a gripping match in Rio 12 years later. The stunning gold medal victory at the 2016 Olympics was described as "the moment of the Games" and History Makers charts the turbulent journey of a team that rewrote its own destiny.
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The Games - A Global History Of The Olympics

by David Goldblatt

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 The definitive sporting, social and political history of the modern Olympic Games, the world that made them and the world they helped to shape.
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