Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement

Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement
Author: John E. Findling
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Jeux olympiques - Histoire - Encyclopédies
ISBN: 9780275976590

This unique book provides information on the events surrounding the Olympics, such as political controversies, scandals, tragedies, economic issues, and peripheral incidents.

The Olympics Encyclopedia for Kids

The Olympics Encyclopedia for Kids
Author: Chrös McDougall
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1098217888

This encyclopedia highlights more than 40 Olympic sports. Alongside both historic and recent photographs, readers will learn about the basics of each competition, its origin, how it has changed throughout the years, and the icons in each sport. In addition, this book provides information about the Paralympics. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Reference is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Encyclopedia of International Games

Encyclopedia of International Games
Author: Daniel Bell
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 612
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1476615276

The Olympic Games, revived in 1896, are the most well known international multisport gathering--but since 1896, hundreds of other competitions based on the Olympic Games model have been established whose histories have not been well documented. The Encyclopedia of International Games captures (in one alphabetical sequence) the histories of these games, many of them for the first time. The work includes major regional events such as the African, Asian, Arab, South Pacific, and Pan American Games; competitions such as the Indian Ocean Island Games, Arctic Winter Games, Island Games, and Games of the Small Countries of Europe; specific populations or professions such as the North American Indigenous Games, Maccabiah Games, World Military Games, World Police and Fire Games, and World Medical and Health Games; and Special Olympics, the Paralympics, games for the blind, and other regional games. Eight appendices, notes, bibliography, index.

The Encyclopedia of the Winter Olympics

The Encyclopedia of the Winter Olympics
Author: John F. Wukovits
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2002-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780531154526

Discusses the origins and history of the winter Olympics, describes the development and rules of each sport, profiles stars from earlier games, and offers statistics and lists of winners.

The Olympics Encyclopedia

The Olympics Encyclopedia
Author: Chrös McDougall
Publisher: ABDO
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2021-12-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1098218744

This encyclopedia highlights more than 40 Olympic sports. Alongside both historic and recent photographs, readers will learn about the basics of each competition, its origin, how it has changed throughout the years, and the icons in each sport. In addition, this book provides information about the Paralympics. Features include a glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Reference is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

The Olympic Winter Games at 100

The Olympic Winter Games at 100
Author: Heather L. Dichter
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 100383129X

2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games. This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century of the Olympic Winter Games. Grounded in sport history, the chapters in this volume draw on the disciplines of cultural history, diplomatic history, global history, environmental history, and media history to analyze the continued allure of the Winter Olympics, a century after its origin, and in light of the sustained and significant problems facing the Olympic movement. Host cities’ efforts to create positive and lasting legacies are analyzed to highlight the challenges and complexities that have plagued the Olympic movement throughout the last century. The Olympic Winter Games at 100 is essential reading for any researcher, advanced student or scholar with an interest in Olympic Studies, sports development, sport policy and history. The chapters in this book were published as two special issues in The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Scholastic Visual Sports Encyclopedia

Scholastic Visual Sports Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2003
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780439317214

Text and drawings explain the equipment and rules for approximately one hundred sports, including track and field, snow sports, ball sports, and motor sports.

The Encyclopedia of Figure Skating

The Encyclopedia of Figure Skating
Author: John Williams Malone
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1998
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780816032266

Alphabetically arranged entries include biographies of champion skaters, histories of the major branches of competition, and descriptions of skating forms

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
Author: David Goldblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 755
Release: 2016-07-26
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0393254119

“A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.