Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
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Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended
Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational
About this book
For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the energies of nation-states. Since then, projected by television, funded by global capital and fattened by the desires of nations to garner international prestige, the Olympics have grown to gargantuan dimensions.
In the course of its epic history, the Olympics have left numerous legacies, from unforgettable feats to monumental stadiums, from shining triumphs to searing tragedies, from the dazzling debuts on the world's stage of new cities and nations to notorious campaigns of national propaganda. The Olympics represent an essential component of modern global history. The Olympic movement itself has, since the 1990s, recognized and sought to shape its numerous legacies with mixed success as this book makes clear. It offers ground-breaking analyses of the power of Olympic legacies, positive and negative, and surveys the subject from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 2008, and indeed beyond.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Editors' Foreword
- Sport in the Global Society
- Sport in the Global Society
- Prologue: Guarantees of Global Goodwill: Post-Olympic Legacies — Too Many Limping White Elephants?
- 1. Olympic Environmental Concerns as a Legacy of the Winter Games
- 2. The Albertville Winter Olympics: Unexpected Legacies — Failed Expectations for Regional Economic Development
- 3. Maximizing Olympic Impacts by Building Up Legacies
- 4. The Seoul Olympics: Economic Miracle Meets the World
- 5. The Sydney Olympics: Striving for Legacies — Overcoming Short-Term Disappointments and Long-Term Deficiencies
- 6. The Athens Olympics: Optimistic Legacies — Post-Olympic Assets and the Struggle for their Realization
- 7. Los Angeles is the Olympic City: Legacies of the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games
- 8. Beijing Olympics Legacies: Certain Intentions and Certain and Uncertain Outcomes
- 9. Olympic Legacies in the IOC's ‘Celebrate Humanity' Campaign: Ancient or Modern?
- 10. ‘Legacy' as Managerial/Magical Discourse in Contemporary Olympic Affairs
- 11. The Regeneration Games: Commodities, Gifts and the Economics of London 2012*
- 12. A Sustainable Sports Legacy: Creating a Link between the London Olympics and Sports Participation
- Epilogue: Athletic Clashes of Civilizations or Bridges Over Cultural Divisions? The Olympic Games as Legacies and the Legacies of the Olympic Games
- Index