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Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that...

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The limited shelf life of Olympic athletes collapsed in 1980 for Rowdy Gaines and about 280 other elite U.S. athletes when President Jimmy Carter announced America would boycott the Games in Moscow. Instead of distinguishing his country on an inte...

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In 2012, Kazakhstan shocked the weightlifting world by winning four Gold medals at the London Olympics. Kazakhstan had competed as an independent country at the Olympics since 1996. Before the 2008 Olympics, Kazakhstan had never won gold in weight...

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It’s a blustery December day in Springfield Massachusetts.  The year - 1891.  James Naismith, age 29 is a rare combination of violent rugby player and Presbyterian minister.  He has his dream job as an athletic coach at the Y....

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A new biography comic featuring Tom Daley. British diver Tom Daley made quite a splash at the 2012 Olympic Games with his winning personality, boyish good looks and impressive physique. Writer Michael Troy and artist Alex Schumacher tell the inspi...

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From her humble beginnings in Jamaica to her humble upbringing in Queens New York to her spotlight alongside high profile judges on the Panel of American Idol (including her infamous feuding with Mariah Carey.) Nicki Minaj came to conquer, to win,...

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Every two years, the Olympics wins world attention with contests and celebrations. The success story of the worlds most watched event, best recognized symbols, and most enduring brand has many valuable lessons for the business world. An entire con...

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The Olympic Sports Economy incorporates exclusive case studies and reports from sports management conferences to illustrate the most important business practices and trends of the Olympics today. Every two years, the Olympics wins world attention ...

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R. Bacon Whitney is a professional writer of prehistory about the earliest Greeks, whose nation race emerged shortly after the Early and Late Helladic Periods of the Late Aegean Bronze Age, from the early fifteenth century BC onward. He writes his...

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Athletes Pressing Charges explores the athlete-led protest movement in the Olympic sport of modern pentathlon. The athlete activists protest against the removal of the horse-riding discipline from the sport and blame the sport's governing body, th...

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Everybody has a rowing story to tell. And Rowperfect is uniquely placed to collect these stories of triumph and disaster, of friendship and adversity.Rowing has its own collection of anecdotes, and this is Rowperfect's newest project, an anthology...

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From ten-time Paralympic medalist Oksana Masters, who has conquered four different sports, this is her jaw-dropping story of triumphing over extraordinary Chernobyl disaster-caused physical challenges to create a life that, by example, challenges ...

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“A gut-wrenching, wildly inspiring story about overcoming the most daunting obstacles through steely tenacity, sheer will, and a great big dose of motherly love.” —Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glas...

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For twenty-four hours in the summer of 1988, Canada’s Ben Johnson was the most celebrated athlete on the planet. He’d won the 100-metre sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world-record 9.79 seconds and just had time to say, “A gold...

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Ce livre est une étude minutieuse des règlements qui ont régi les tournois olympiques depuis la création des Jeux lors du congrès international de La Sorbonne en 1894 jusqu'au congrès de Berlin en 1930. Il montre les grandes phases de développemen...

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Un livre complet sur les JO ! Le texte mythique et fondateur de Coubertin, mais aussi un superbe dossier documentaire lié à Coubertin et aux JO. (de l¿origine aux plus récents) illustré par le travail du plasticien et auteur Yoann Laurent-Rouault,...

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This open access book describes the three planning approaches and legacy impacts for the Olympic Games in one locale: the city of Los Angeles, USA. The author critically compares the similarities and differences of the LA Olympics by reviewing the...

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The Olympic torch relay held before the 2008 Games was the moment when East met West on the media stage. This book analyses the torch relay and its representation, offering a discursive construction of Olympic ideology by and through the media in ...

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Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool ...

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Sport during Cold War has recently begun to be studied in more depth. Some scholars have edited a book about the US and Soviet sport diplomacy and show ow the government of these two countries have used sport during this period, notably as a tool ...

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Papers presented at a conference held at Universit'at Mainz on May 22, 2009.

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In this open access book the cost and revenue overruns of Olympic Games from Sydney 2000 to PyeongChang 2018 from eight years before the Games to Gamestime are investigated to provide a base for future host cities. The authors evaluated the develo...

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The implementation of referenda in advance to an Olympic bid is common in Western democratic countries. In many cases, they have produced negative results, ending the aspiration of Olympic Games on the spot. Germany is no exception to this case. W...

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