The Olympic Games Explained: A Student Guide to the Evolution of the Modern Olympic Gam...
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The Olympic Games Explained: A Student Guide to the Evolution of the Modern Olympic Games (Student Sport Studies)
Book Details
- Author
- Jim Parry
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- History of Sports
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780415346047
- ISBN-10
- 0415346045
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ISBN: 0415346045
Author: Parry, Jim
Condition: New
An awesome festival of sporting excellence and competition, the Olympic Games have now evolved into a major international event with great cultural, political, economic and social importance.The Olympic Games Explained is an introductory guide to the history and meaning of the four-yearly phenomenon that is the modern Olympic Games. The book provides a comprehensive overview of Olympism from its Ancient Greek origins through the beginnings of the International Olympic Committee to the global Olympic Movement in the twenty-first century.Each chapter offers a range of study tasks and review questions to help students develop their understanding of key concepts in Olympic studies.
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