Download or read book Les Jeux olympiques oubli s written by André Drevon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quatre ans après qu'en 1896, à Athènes, Pierre de Coubertin eut redonné leur souffle moderne aux jeux olympiques, les jeux de la seconde olympiade sont organisés à Paris dans le cadre de l'Exposition universelle de 1900. Cette manifestation originale d'une ampleur inattendue, injustement méconnue, attendait son histoire. Avec près de soixante mille participants, trente-quatre disciplines - plus qu'à Sydney ! -, ces jeux par lesquels la troisième République entendait motiver la jeunesse pour le sport feront grand bruit au cours du bel été 1900. Athlétisme, gymnastique, équitation, cyclisme, rugby... bien sûr, mais aussi, de manière plus inattendue, courses de ballons, tir au canon, pêche à la ligne, colombophilie... Dans un mélange étonnant de nostalgie et de modernité, les premiers pas de la conquête du siècle par le sport nous sont ainsi révélés. On apprend comment l'Américain Alvin Kraenzlein, quadruple médaillé d'or en athlétisme, bien avant Jesse Owens et Carl Lewis, invente la technique moderne de la course de haies... Avec un luxe de détails et dans un style vivant, André Drevon nous entraîne à la découverte des champions de la Belle Epoque et nous présente les différentes disciplines sportives dans leur cadre économique, social et technique. Les jeux olympiques de 1900 retrouvent ainsi leur véritable dimension et la place qu'ils méritent dans l'histoire du sport dont ils constituent l'un des tout premiers jalons.
Download or read book Les hommes libres et l Olympe written by Fabrice Delsahut and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De l'amateur des premiers temps olympiques modernes, aux athlètes revendiquant leurs droits raciaux en passant par les minorités culturelles, les Jeux Olympiques ont permis à de nombreux sans-grade d'atteindre l'éternité ou à défaut de la tutoyer le temps des Jeux. Mais le temps a fait son triste ouvrage d'amnésie et ces champions sont tombés dans l'oubli de la conscience collective. Les destinés de ces hommes méritent une attention particulière pour ceux qui aiment à mieux découvrir l'histoire du sport.
Download or read book Playing at Monarchy written by Corry Cropper and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries sports have been used to mask or to uncover important social and political problems, and there is no better example of this than France during the nineteenth century, when it changed from monarchy to empire to republic. Prior to the French Revolution, sports and games were the exclusive domain of the nobility. The revolution, however, challenged the notion of noble privilege, and leisure activities began spreading to all levels of society. Games either evolved from Old Regime spectacles into bourgeois pastimes, such as hunting, or died out altogether, as did trictrac. During this period, sports and games became the symbolic cultural battlefield of an emerging modern state. Playing at Monarchy looks at the ways sports and games (tennis, fencing, bullfighting, chess, trictrac, hunting, and the Olympics) are metaphorically used to defend and subvert, to praise and mock both class and political power structures in nineteenth-century France. Corry Cropper examines what shaped these games of the nineteenth-century and how they appeared as allegory in French literature (in the fiction of Balzac, Märimäe, and Flaubert), and in newspapers, historical studies, and even game manuals. Throughout, he shows how the representation of play in all types of literature mirrors the most important social and political rifts in postrevolutionary France, while also serving as propaganda for competing political agendas. Though its focus is on France, Playing at Monarchy hints at the way these nineteenth-century developments inform perceptions of sport even today.
Download or read book Understanding the Olympics written by John Horne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? 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. This thoroughly revised and updated edition discusses recent attempts at future proofing by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in the face of growing global anti-Olympic activism, the changing geo-political context within which the Olympics take place, and the Olympic histories of the next three cities to host the Games – Tokyo (2020), Paris (2024), and Los Angeles (2028) – as well as the legacy of the London (2012) Olympics. For the first time, this new edition introduces the reader to the emergence of ‘other Games’ associated with the IOC – the Winter Olympics, the Paralympics, and the Youth Olympics. It also features a full Olympic history timeline, many new photographs, refreshed suggestions for further reading, and revised illustrations. The most up-to-date and authoritative textbook available on the Olympic Games, Understanding the Olympics is essential reading for anybody with an interest in the Olympics or the wider relationship between sport and society.
Download or read book Les 100 histoires des Jeux olympiques written by Mustapha Kessous and published by QUE SAIS-JE. This book was released on 2013-08-09T00:00:00+02:00 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Jeux olympiques sont l’un des plus grands spectacles mondiaux. Nous venons y contempler les Dieux du stade accomplir des exploits, vivre des tragédies, rechercher le geste parfait. Nous y observons aussi – le sport n’est pas hors du monde – les enjeux géopolitiques et économiques, les progrès techniques, et puis les mesquineries, la corruption, le dopage, etc. Un concentré de notre société et des destins individuels mélés.Du poing ganté de cuir noir des athlètes Carlo et Smith à Mexico aux courses irréelles de Usain Bolt, du parcours de la flamme olympique à l’attentat de Munich contre l’équipe israélienne, d’Alain Mimoun et son mouchoir blanc à Nadia Comaneci et à tous ces moments célèbres ou un peu oubliés qui peuplent notre mémoire collective, voici 100 histoires qui ont fait celle des Jeux olympiques.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement written by Ian Buchanan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Games brings together thousands of athletes, competing in over 40 sports, and representing over 200 nations. But that is just the surface, for none of this would be possible without the constant efforts of an incredible organization consisting of tens of thousands of sports lovers united in sports associations, National Olympic Committees, and the International Olympic Committee. The third edition of this fascinating book deals with both levels of the competition - the competitive side and the administrative side. The dictionary includes hundreds of entries on the major sports, more outstanding athletes, participating countries and numerous bodies in the organization as well as successive generations of officials - starting with the founder, Pierre de Coubertin. But that is not all. Two chronologies trace the history of the Olympic movement back to the Ancient Olympiad first celebrated in Greece in 776 B.C. as well as all of the modern Games up to Athens in 2004. The appendixes then provide elusive facts on the Games, the officials, the torchbearers, and the top Olympic medal winners. A bibliography is included to allow further research. Reviews of the Previous Edition: 'Buchanan and Mallon provide comprehensive, clearly written, and well-organized historical information about the Olympic movement. Highly recommended.' -Choice '...most useful for quick lookups and is the only one to have most information on individual athletes' -Reference Books Bulletin
Download or read book The Kings of Wrestling written by Edmond Desbonnet and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrestling dates back to ancient times, but it was not until Edmond Desbonnet (1867-1953) produced his groundbreaking work The Kings of Wrestling in 1910 that its history was set down in book-length form. His work consists of nearly 150 biographies and accompanying photos of the men who pioneered professional wrestling, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He explains how Greco-Roman wrestling emerged in France around 1845 and then evolved into a big business during its golden age of 1890 to 1910. The sport drew men from all over Europe as well as Africans, Turks, East Indians, Russians, Americans, and others. Wrestling became the first truly international sport the world had ever known. Desbonnet wrote his history in French, and it is translated here for the first time. This richly illustrated edition has an introduction and extensive annotations, along with many contemporary newspaper articles, book excerpts and magazine pieces from French, Italian and German sources.
Download or read book Olympic Aspirations written by J. A. Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-03 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-renowned annual Beijing Academic Forum just months after the city hosted the impressive 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. One section of the Forum was devoted to the impact of the Olympic Movement on China and on China’s image in the world. The tone at times was too self-congratulatory for some present. The critical discussion that continued into late 2010 inspired this book. Olympic Aspirations is a companion volume to the well-received Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended and draws on expertise from academics in all parts of the world. Both volumes have a similar purpose: to record Olympic ideals achieved but more importantly, to stimulate reflection on those as yet unachieved. Both are constructive in approach, positive in tone and optimistic in attitude. Olympic Aspirations offers original and insightful arguments that address the actions the Olympic Movement has taken to improve the Games. It argues that these actions are as yet incomplete. In concert with Olympic Legacies, it presents two sides of the same coin minted to advance the purity of the Olympic 'coinage'. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Download or read book Nazi Games written by David Clay Large and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nazi Games" recounts how the Olympic festival was a crucial part of the Nazi regime's mobilization of power. The narrative also includes a stirring account of the international effort to boycott the games, which was ultimately derailed by the American Olympic Committee.
Download or read book The Ethics of Sport written by Arthur L. Caplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports are more than just "games." They can unite countries, start wars, and revolutionize views on race, class, and gender. Through works from philosophy, sociology, medicine, and law, this collection explores intersections of sports and ethics, and identifies the immense role of sports in shaping and reflecting social values.
Download or read book The Olympics and the Cold War 1948 1968 written by Erin Elizabeth Redihan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Olympic athletes, fans and the media alike, the games bring out the best sport has to offer--unity, patriotism, friendly competition and the potential for stunning upsets. Yet wherever international competition occurs, politics are never far removed. Early in the Cold War, when all U.S.-Soviet interactions were treated as potential matters of life and death, each side tried to manipulate the International Olympic Committee. Despite the IOC's efforts to keep the games apolitical, they were quickly drawn into the superpowers' global struggle for supremacy, with medal counts the ultimate prize. Based on IOC, U.S. government and contemporary media sources, this book looks at six consecutive Olympiads to show how high the stakes became once the Soviets began competing in 1952, threatening America's athletic supremacy.
Download or read book Le Jeux Olympiques Gr 4 6 written by Melanie Komar and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Que les Jeux olympiques commencent, que la flamme s'allume et que les drapeaux internationaux se dŽploient. Le monde s'arr�te pendant les Jeux olympiques d'hiver. IntŽressez vos Žl�ves ˆ l'esprit olympique en leur apprenant toute l'histoire des Jeux, du puis leur crŽation jusqu'ˆ l'Žpoque moderne.
Download or read book The Invention of Race written by Nicolas Bancel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally as evidenced in ethnographic museums, world fairs, zoological gardens, international colonial exhibitions and ethnic shows. A deep epistemological change took place in Europe in this domain toward the end of the eighteenth century, producing new scientific representations of race and thereby triggering a radical transformation in the visual economy relating to race and racial representation and its inscription in the body. These practices would play defining roles in shaping public consciousness and the representation of “otherness” in modern societies. The Invention of Race provides contextualization that is often lacking in contemporary discussions on diversity, multiculturalism and race.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Professional Sport written by Jean-Francois Bourg and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book offers a critical interpretation of the traditional social and economic accounts of sport. It provides an incisive analysis of professional sport and defines alternative foundations to the present model. The authors demonstrate that professional sport is an extremely complex phenomenon encompassing many unique factors depending on its global reach, financing and organization. In particular they address three significant issues: • an analysis of the relationship between sport and economic development in order to explain the place of professional sport in modern societies • a study of the main difficulties facing the organization of professional sports in terms of financing, collective bargaining and the consequences of revenue sharing for competitive balance • an exploration of alternatives to current governance structures which would involve a return to professional ethics. This insightful and topical book is essential for academics and students of sport management, researchers of the economics of sport, managers of clubs and federations involved in professional sports, as well as civil servants and journalists.
Download or read book The A to Z of the Olympic Movement written by Bill Mallon and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Games bring together thousands of athletes, competing in over 40 sports, and representing over 200 nations. But that is just the surface, for none of this would be possible without the constant efforts of an incredible organization consisting of tens of thousands of sports lovers united in sports associations, National Olympic Committees, and the International Olympic Committee. The A to Z of the Olympic Movement deals with both levels of the competition: the competitive side and the administrative side. This is accomplished through a bibliography; two chronologies--one tracing the history of the Ancient Olympiad and the other tracing the Modern Games; appendixes providing facts on the Games, the officials, the torchbearers, and the top Olympic medal winners; and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the major sports, more outstanding athletes, participating countries and numerous bodies in the organization as well as successive generations of officials--starting with the founder, Pierre de Coubertin.
Download or read book Sports in American History written by Gerald R. Gems and published by Human Kinetics. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports in American History: From Colonization to Globalization, Third Edition, journeys from the early American past to the present to help students grasp the compelling evolution of American sporting practices
Download or read book A Pronouncing Dictionary of the French Language written by B. Du Gue and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
