Inside the Olympic industry : power, politics, and activism / Helen Jefferson Lenskyj ; foreword by Varda Burstyn.

By:

Lenskyj, Helen

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585268843
9780585268842

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inside the Olympic industry.DDC classification:

796.48 21

LOC classification:

GV721.5 .L42 2000eb

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Contents:

Salt Lake City the beginning -- The scandals unfold: a long history -- Olympic family solidarity: creative connotations -- Toronto and Sydney Olympic bids: when winners are losers -- The hidden costs: Olympic impacts and urban politics -- Up against the Olympic industry: international resistance -- Resistance in Atlanta and Sydney: bread, not circuses -- Corporate environmentalism: Olympic shades of green -- The mass media and the Olympic industry: manufacturing consent?

Review: "In a expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to uncover a darker side of the global Games. She reports on the pre- and post-Olympic impacts from recent host cities, bribery investigations and their outcomes, grassroots resistance movements, and the role of the mass media in the controversy. An accessible book about a complex subject that touches the hearts of sports fans everywhere, Inside the Olympic Industry is a behind-the-scenes look at the politics surrounding the choice of Sydney, Australia as host city for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.

"In a expose of the Olympic industry, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj goes beyond the media hype of international goodwill and spirited competition to uncover a darker side of the global Games. She reports on the pre- and post-Olympic impacts from recent host cities, bribery investigations and their outcomes, grassroots resistance movements, and the role of the mass media in the controversy. An accessible book about a complex subject that touches the hearts of sports fans everywhere, Inside the Olympic Industry is a behind-the-scenes look at the politics surrounding the choice of Sydney, Australia as host city for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games."--Jacket.