John Bale Visiting Professor of Sports Studies,University of Aarhus, Denmark and Professor of Sports Geography, Keele University Mette Krogh Christensen Assistant Professor in Sports Studies, Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus

'The editor has successfully gathered fifteen articles that discuss sport on several theoretical levels... as well as critically evaluating the dilema of olympic competition.'Milan Hosta, 'Sport' Magasine, Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana, Slovenia

• The Future of Multi-Sport Mega EventsRichard Cashman, University of New South WalesTroping Along: A Historian's View of Olympic ScholarshipDouglas Booth, University of OtagoCitius, Altius, Fortius: A Critique and a ReinterpetationSigmund Loland, Norwegian Sports University, Oslo"What's the Difference between Propaganda for Tourism or for a Political Regime?" The 1936 Olympics in World PerspectiveArnd Krger, University of GttingenAccelerating Olympism: The Poetics and Problematics of Nano, Virtual, and Cyborg Sport TechnologiesSynthia Sydnor, University of IllinoisThe Aesthetic Dimensions of SportSoren Damkjaer, University of CopenhagenDrugs and the Olympics in the Context of AestheticsVerner Moller, University of South Denmark, OdenseOlympic Legacies: Sport, Space and the Practices of Everyday LifeDouglas Brown, University of AlbertaOlympism, Post-Humanism and the Spectacle of RaceBen Carrington, University of BrightonChina and OlympismSusan Brownell, University of Missouri, St LouisThe Global, the Popular and the Inter-Popular: Olympic Sport between Market, State and Civil SocietyHenning Eichberg, IFO, DenmarkLaying Olympism to RestKevin Wamsley, University of Western OntarioSportive Nationalism in an Age of GlobalizationJohn Hoberman, University of TexasMaking the World Safe for Global Capital? The Sydney 2000 OlympicsHelen Lenskyj, University of Toronto The Disneyfication of the Olympics: Selling the SpectacleAlan Tomlinson, University of Brighton

John Bale Visiting Professor of Sports Studies,University of Aarhus, Denmark and Professor of Sports Geography, Keele University Mette Krogh Christensen Assistant Professor in Sports Studies, Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus

'The editor has successfully gathered fifteen articles that discuss sport on several theoretical levels... as well as critically evaluating the dilema of olympic competition.'Milan Hosta, 'Sport' Magasine, Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana, Slovenia

• The Future of Multi-Sport Mega EventsRichard Cashman, University of New South WalesTroping Along: A Historian's View of Olympic ScholarshipDouglas Booth, University of OtagoCitius, Altius, Fortius: A Critique and a ReinterpetationSigmund Loland, Norwegian Sports University, Oslo"What's the Difference between Propaganda for Tourism or for a Political Regime?" The 1936 Olympics in World PerspectiveArnd Krger, University of GttingenAccelerating Olympism: The Poetics and Problematics of Nano, Virtual, and Cyborg Sport TechnologiesSynthia Sydnor, University of IllinoisThe Aesthetic Dimensions of SportSoren Damkjaer, University of CopenhagenDrugs and the Olympics in the Context of AestheticsVerner Moller, University of South Denmark, OdenseOlympic Legacies: Sport, Space and the Practices of Everyday LifeDouglas Brown, University of AlbertaOlympism, Post-Humanism and the Spectacle of RaceBen Carrington, University of BrightonChina and OlympismSusan Brownell, University of Missouri, St LouisThe Global, the Popular and the Inter-Popular: Olympic Sport between Market, State and Civil SocietyHenning Eichberg, IFO, DenmarkLaying Olympism to RestKevin Wamsley, University of Western OntarioSportive Nationalism in an Age of GlobalizationJohn Hoberman, University of TexasMaking the World Safe for Global Capital? The Sydney 2000 OlympicsHelen Lenskyj, University of Toronto The Disneyfication of the Olympics: Selling the SpectacleAlan Tomlinson, University of Brighton

John Bale Visiting Professor of Sports Studies,University of Aarhus, Denmark and Professor of Sports Geography, Keele University Mette Krogh Christensen Assistant Professor in Sports Studies, Department of Sport Science, University of Aarhus

'The editor has successfully gathered fifteen articles that discuss sport on several theoretical levels... as well as critically evaluating the dilema of olympic competition.'Milan Hosta, 'Sport' Magasine, Faculty of Sport in Ljubljana, Slovenia

• The Future of Multi-Sport Mega EventsRichard Cashman, University of New South WalesTroping Along: A Historian's View of Olympic ScholarshipDouglas Booth, University of OtagoCitius, Altius, Fortius: A Critique and a ReinterpetationSigmund Loland, Norwegian Sports University, Oslo"What's the Difference between Propaganda for Tourism or for a Political Regime?" The 1936 Olympics in World PerspectiveArnd Krger, University of GttingenAccelerating Olympism: The Poetics and Problematics of Nano, Virtual, and Cyborg Sport TechnologiesSynthia Sydnor, University of IllinoisThe Aesthetic Dimensions of SportSoren Damkjaer, University of CopenhagenDrugs and the Olympics in the Context of AestheticsVerner Moller, University of South Denmark, OdenseOlympic Legacies: Sport, Space and the Practices of Everyday LifeDouglas Brown, University of AlbertaOlympism, Post-Humanism and the Spectacle of RaceBen Carrington, University of BrightonChina and OlympismSusan Brownell, University of Missouri, St LouisThe Global, the Popular and the Inter-Popular: Olympic Sport between Market, State and Civil SocietyHenning Eichberg, IFO, DenmarkLaying Olympism to RestKevin Wamsley, University of Western OntarioSportive Nationalism in an Age of GlobalizationJohn Hoberman, University of TexasMaking the World Safe for Global Capital? The Sydney 2000 OlympicsHelen Lenskyj, University of Toronto The Disneyfication of the Olympics: Selling the SpectacleAlan Tomlinson, University of Brighton