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Making the games
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ISBN: 9780415671941 9780203132517 9781136477478 9781136477515 9781136477522 9781138694507 Year: 2013 Publisher: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;New York Routledge

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"The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is the definitive, officially-licensed account of the world's greatest sporting mega-event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery, aftermath and legacy. Written by a world-class team of international Olympic experts, sports researchers and writers, the book offers comprehensive analysis of the full social, cultural, political, historical, economic and sporting context of the Games. From the political, commercial and structural complexities of organizing an event on such a scale, to the sporting action that holds the attention of the world for three thrilling weeks, this book illuminates every aspect of the 2012 Games, helping us to better understand the vital role that sport and culture have in contemporary global society. The book is divided into two volumes. This, the first volume, examines the build up to London 2012, covering key topics such as: - the bidding process - planning and decision making - financing the Games - developing the Olympic infrastructure - engaging national and international governing bodies of sport - engaging the UK public - engaging a global public - developing a legacy programme - the cultural Olympiad. Richly illustrated with the personal accounts of key stakeholders, from sports administrators and politicians to athletes and spectators, and including essential data and evocative visual material, this book is essential reading for anybody with a personal or professional interest in the Olympic Games, global culture or the development of sport"--

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Sharing the spirit : the involvement of school students in the 2000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Sydney
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ISBN: 0731397509 9780731397501 Year: 2002 Publisher: Bankstown NSW : Dept. of Education and Training, School Sport Unit,

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Les 100 stars de Paris 2024
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ISBN: 9782755674415 Year: 2024 Publisher: Paris : Hugo Sport,

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Ils vont participer à la compétition la plus importante de leur vie. Certains sont déjà habitués comme Armand Duplantis ou Alexandre Léauté. D'autres vivront leur grande première comme Carlos Alcaraz ou les frères Lebrun. Pour d'autres encore comme Kylian Mbappé Antoine Dupont ou Marine Johannès on ne peut pas les imaginer ne pas la dispute.r Pour quelques-uns comme Teddy Riner ce sera leur dernière compétition. Mais pour tous c'est le rêve ultime disputer à Paris les Jeux Olympiques Retrouvez les 100 stars qui vont faire les Jeux de Paris 2024.


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The Paralympic Games : empowerment or side show?
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ISBN: 9781841262659 Year: 2008 Publisher: Maidenhead : Meyer & Meyer

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From Stoke Mandeville to Sochi
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ISBN: 1612294138 9781612294131 9781612294124 161229412X Year: 2014 Publisher: Champaign, Ill.

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The Paralympic Games explained
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ISBN: 9781138927186 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Routledge

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Le sport autrement
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ISBN: 9782702714829 270271482X Year: 2013 Publisher: Paris : Ed. Chiron,

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Le sport autrement est une première dans le monde du sport et dans celui de l'édition. Pour la première fois, un livre est consacré aux sportifs handicapés (de haut niveau ou amateurs). Il est rédigé par une équipe de médecins spécialisés, oeuvrant tous à la Fédération Française Handisport dont on entend de plus en plus parler, notamment lors des Paralympiades. ...(4ème de couverture).


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Benchmark games : the Sydney 2000 paralympic games.
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ISBN: 9781876718053 Year: 2008 Publisher: Sydney Walla Walla press.

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"Benchmark Games is unique in that there has been no previous study of the staging and the legacy of a particular Paralympic Games. The book documents and analyses the new benchmarks that were set at the time of the successful Sydney Paralympic Games." "Benchmark Games explores many questions about the appeal of the Games to the community. It also considers the operation of disability sport and the place of the disability community in Australian life." --rear cover.


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Heroes or zeros?
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ISBN: 1612290582 9781612290584 9781612290577 1612290574 Year: 2012 Publisher: Champaign, Ill. Common Ground

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The Olympic games
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ISBN: 1838677755 1838677739 9781838677756 9781838677763 1838677763 9781838677732 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bingley, UK

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Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympics command public attention, while Olympic mythology obscures their underlying function as a profit-making business. Unlike terms such as 'Olympic movement' and 'Olympic family', the concept of 'Olympic industry' focuses on sport as an economic and political enterprise, with its beneficiaries including sponsors, media rights holders, developers, and politicians. Negative impacts on host cities disproportionately threaten the lives and well-being of disadvantaged minorities. Citizens' Olympic resistance campaigns address a range of human rights abuses, while recent athlete activism also focuses on the doping problem and the sexual abuse of girls and women. Female athletes with 'differences of sexual development' face discriminatory gender policies that disqualify them from women's events. All of these issues are analysed through a feminist, anti-racist lens.

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