Power Games - Jules Boykoff
| Автор: | Jules Boykoff |
| Издательство: | Ingram |
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| Жанр произведения: | Спорт, фитнес |
| Год издания: | 0 |
| isbn: | 9781784780746 |
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.