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The Olympic Games: Meeting New Global Challenges, Hardback Book

The Olympic Games: Meeting New Global Challenges Hardback

Edited by David (University of Ulster, UK) Hassan, Shakya Mitra

Part of the Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives series

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As the world’s greatest sporting event, the Olympic Games has always commanded intrigue, analysis and comment in equal measure.

This book looks to celebrate the significance of the Olympics, their historical impact, controversies that presently surround them and their possible future direction.

It begins with a detailed, if controversial, analysis of the scale of the modern Summer Olympics and considers whether in fact the Games have simply become too big?

Thereafter considerable coverage is afforded the often contentious bidding process, required of successful host cities wishing to attract the Games, and asks why some cities are successful and others are not.

This book also reflects on the growing security measures that surround the Olympics and considers their full impact on the civil liberties of those impacted by them.

For scholars of the Olympic movement this book represents essential reading to understand further the Olympic Games, their significance and effect, as the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro draw ever closer. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.

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