Olympic & Paralympic Games

Every four years, the Winter Olympics become a focal point for activism and resistance. But in the modern era, mere bids to host the Games have spa...

The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern O...

The eyes of the world watched as three runners - dirt poor Johnny Hayes, who used to run barefoot through the streets of New York City; candy maker...

Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge buildin...

In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre of the German Sport University organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies. This book resulted...

This book offers different insights into the study of the Olympic movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.It seeks to capture ho...

This book offers different insights into the study of the Olympic movement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.It seeks to capture ho...

The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes an...

How did the Olympics evolve into a multi-national phenomenon? How can the Olympics help us to understand the relationship between sport and society...

This is the first book to examine the role of women in the origins, development and contemporary landscape of snowboarding. Focusing on organised a...

Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong competed at each of the ten Summer Ol...

This book is an analysis of both contemporary Tokyo and the contemporary Olympic Games, emphasizing the role of late-stage capitalism and political...

In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success, ...

This book explores the relationship between sports law, the Olympic Movement and human rights. Examining the historical legal roots of contemporary...

Mexico Citys staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexicos post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at eas...

The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues ...