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Download or read book Mexico 68 - a Technical Report by the National Coaches on the 1968 Olympic Games written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Mcnab
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Total Pages : 163 pages
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Download or read book Mexico '68; A Technical Report by the National Coaches on the 1968 Olympic Games. (Editor written by Tom Mcnab and published by . This book was released on 1968* with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Mexico '68 written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Track & Field Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Hoffer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416593896
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Something in the Air written by Richard Hoffer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Seabiscuit and The Summer of ’49, a gripping sports narrative that brilliantly tells the amazing individual stories of the unforgettable athletes who gathered in Mexico City in a year of dramatic upheaval. The 1968 Mexico City Olympics reflected the spirit of their revolutionary times. Richard Hoffer’s Something in the Air captures the turbulence and offbeat heroism of that historic Olympiad, which was as rich in inspiring moments as it was drenched in political and racial tensions. Although the basketball star Lew Alcindor decided to boycott, heavyweight boxer George Foreman not only competed, but waved miniature American flags over his fallen opponents. The sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos became as famous for their raised-fist gestures of protest as their speed on the track. No one was prepared for Bob Beamon’s long jump, which broke the world’s record by a staggering twenty-two inches. And then there was Dick Fosbury, the goofball high jumper whose backwards, upside down approach to the bar (the "Fosbury Flop") baffled his coaches while breaking records. Though Fosbury was his own man, he was apolitical and easygoing. He didn’t defy authority; he defied gravity. Witty, insightful, and filled with human drama, Something in the Air mixes Shakespearean complexity with Hollywood sentimentality, sociopolitical significance, and the exhilarating spectacle of youthful, physical prowess. It is a powerful, unforgettable tale that will resonate with sports fans and readers of social history alike.
Author : Keith Brewster
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781444332766
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Reflections on Mexico '68 written by Keith Brewster and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to Mexico City’s staging of the Olympic Games in 1968, this book combines analyses of literary works and protest music with comparative history to offer a fresh appreciation of the significance of the event. Explores the first Olympic Games to be hosted by a Spanish-speaking, Latin American country Includes new and pioneering research data on the Mexico Games An innovative approach from scholars from a variety of disciplines Re-appraisal of momentous events from an unusually wide diversity of geographical and thematic perspectives Applies historical analysis to inform future events
Author : United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports
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Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports written by United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports
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Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book The Final Report of the President's Commission on Olympic Sports, January 1977, Washington, D.C. written by United States. President's Commission on Olympic Sports and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mick Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134322046
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Elite Sport Development written by Mick Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-05-06 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite Sport Development addresses important sport policy questions and explores the emergence, development and current status of elite sport development policy with detailed examination of Australia, Canada and the UK. The sports compared are swimming, track and field athletics, and sailing. The book looks at the problems faced in establishing an elite sport development infrastructure covering facilities, coaching, sports science and competition. Likewise, full-time athletes are considered and the tensions that a pre-occupation with elite achievement generates within the sports is also examined. Includes: * why governments invest heavily in elite sport * the relationship between Government and NGB's * the impact of elite investment on 'sport for all' * the selection of individual sports for priority funding. This detailed text will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals working in sports development and policy.
Author : James Allen Page
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Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Black Olympian Medalists written by James Allen Page and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biographical dictionary of 472 black men and women, mostly Americans, who have won Olympic medals between 1904 and 1988. "African-descended" is the scope including Brazilians, Cubans, and Ethiopians, but not South Africans. Beginning with an introduction by Reynold O'Neal, president of the British Virgin Islands Olympic Committee, the book lists Olympic athletes alphabetically. Included for each is participating country, date and place of birth, medals won, and information on personal, high school, and college records. The volume includes statistics by sport, by year, and by country; a feature on black managers in professional sports; and a detailed index, including the names of high schools and colleges for which the athletes played. ISBN 0-87287-618-7: $27.50 (For use only in the library).
Author : Jules Boykoff
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784780731
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Power Games written by Jules Boykoff and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
Author : Harry Blutstein
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228006937
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Games of Discontent written by Harry Blutstein and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents. The Summer Olympic Games in Mexico were to be a moment of respite from chaos. But the image of peace – a white dove – adopted by organizers was an illusion, as was obvious to a record six hundred million people watching worldwide on satellite television. Ten days before the opening ceremony, soldiers slaughtered hundreds of student protesters in the capital. In Games of Discontent Harry Blutstein presents vivid accounts of threatened boycotts to protest racism in the United States, South Africa, and Rhodesia. He describes demonstrations by Czechoslovak gold medal gymnast Věra Čáslavská against the Soviet-led invasion of her country. The most dramatic moment of the Olympic Games was Tommie Smith and John Carlos's black power salute from the podium. Blutstein furnishes new details behind their protest and examines how this iconic image seared itself into historical memory, inspiring Colin Kaepernick and a new generation of athlete-activists to take a knee against racism decades later. The 1968 Summer Games became a microcosm of the discord happening around the globe. Describing a range of protest activities preceding and surrounding the 1968 Olympics, Games of Discontent shines light on the world during a politically transformative moment when discontents were able, for the first time, to globalize their protests.
Author : Kenya. National Assembly
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Total Pages : 1842 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Official Report written by Kenya. National Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Canada. Department of National Health and Welfare
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by Canada. Department of National Health and Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin B. Witherspoon
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Before the Eyes of the World written by Kevin B. Witherspoon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive study highlights the intersection of sports with the historical, political, and social climate of 1968. Mexican leaders eagerly anticipated the attention that hosting the world's most visible sporting event would bring, yet they could not have predicted the array of conflicts that would play out before their eyes.
Author : Tommie Smith
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592136419
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book Silent Gesture written by Tommie Smith and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the most famous protest in sports history, written by one of the men who staged it.
Author : Luis M. Castañeda
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ISBN 13 : 9780816690763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Spectacular Mexico written by Luis M. Castañeda and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico's arrival in the developed world. In Spectacular Mexico, Luis M. Castañeda demonstrates how these projects were used to create a spectacle of social harmony and ultimately to guide the nation's capital into becoming the powerful megacity we know today. Not only the first Latin American country to host the Olympics, but also the first Spanish-speaking country, Mexico's architectural transformation was put on international display. From traveling exhibitions of indigenous archaeological artifacts to the construction of the Mexico City subway, Spectacular Mexico details how these key projects placed the nation on the stage of global capitalism and revamped its status as a modernized country. Surveying works of major architects such as Félix Candela, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Ricardo Legorreta, and graphic designer Lance Wyman, Castañeda illustrates the use of architecture and design as instruments of propaganda and nation branding. Forming a kind of "image economy," Mexico's architectural projects and artifacts were at the heart of the nation's economic growth and cultivated a new mass audience at an international level. Through an examination of one of the most important cosmopolitan moments in Mexico's history, Spectacular Mexico positions architecture as central to the negotiation of social, economic, and political relations.
