Olympic & Paralympic Games

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR The definitive biog...

This book evaluates the local impacts and legacies of the Olympics in Rio by comparing Rio2016 with other Olympic experiences and evaluating the wa...

Chinese Subjectivities and the Beijing Olympics develops the Foucauldian concept of productive power through examining the ways in which the Chines...

The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement is the first book-length scholarly study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay. Reporting for...

In this revised and all-colour edition of her indispensable guide to the ancient Games, Judith Swaddling traces their mythological and religious or...

Get a high-octane dose of encouragement from Lolo Jones, three-time Olympian and world champion hurdler and bobsledder.Growing up in a broken home,...

In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that test...

A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people ...

The Olympics: A Critical Reader represents a unique, critical guide to the definitive sporting mega-event and the wider phenomenon it represents – ...

This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of spo...

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...

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 ...

Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico’s post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at e...

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

This provocative book makes the case for the complete removal of national symbolism in the Olympic Games. Focusing on the case of national flags at...

During more than forty years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean...

Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the p...

This book explores the biggest sporting event in the world through the lens in which most people witness it: the media. Traversing nations and medi...

This collection of essays is the third iteration in a series of publications dealing with Olympic studies that initially developed out of the tripa...