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Beyond strength : psychological profiles of Olympic athletes
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ISBN: 0697120589 Year: 1992 Publisher: Dubuque Brown

Physical structure of olympic athletes. 1 : The Montreal olympic games anthropological project
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ISBN: 3805535023 Year: 1982 Volume: 16, 18 Publisher: Basel Karger


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The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008
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ISBN: 9004212655 9789004212657 9789004212213 9004212213 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden Global Oriental

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The East Asian Olympiads, 1934-2008: Building Bodies and Nations in Japan, Korea, and China is the first scholarly volume to focus on the collective East Asian experience of the Olympic Games. These twelve essays, from the diverse disciplinary perspectives of anthropology, geography, history, political science, and sports studies, explore how the Asian Olympics were used as patriotic exercises and yardsticks of social progress, shaped ideals of individual health and national strength, and were manipulated by states, interest groups, commercial concerns, and the media. This innovative collection suggests that the Olympics have played an important role in the creation of a modern East Asian identity in a world—and a global sporting culture—still dominated by the West.

Genetic and anthropological studies of olympic athletes
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ISBN: 0122086503 Year: 1974 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Academic press


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More than just games
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ISBN: 144262051X 9781442620513 9781442620520 1442620528 9781442649545 1442649542 9781442626904 1442626909 Year: 2015 Publisher: Toronto

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Held in Germany, the 1936 Olympic Games sparked international controversy. Should athletes and nations boycott the games to protest the Nazi regime? More Than Just Games is the history of Canada's involvement in the 1936 Olympics. It is the story of the Canadian Olympic officials and promoters who were convinced that national unity and pride demanded that Canadian athletes compete in the Olympics without regard for politics. It is the story of those Canadian athletes, mostly young and far more focused on sport thanpolitics, who were eager to make family, friends, and country proud of their efforts on Canada's behalf. And, finally, it is the story of those Canadians who led an unsuccessful campaign to boycott the Olympics and deny Nazi Germany the propaganda coup of serving as an Olympic host.Written by two noted historians of Canadian Jewish history, Richard Menkis and Harold Troper, More than Just Games brings to life the collision of politics, patriotism, and the passion of sport on the eve of the Second World War.

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