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Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

Author : John J. Macaloon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000159396
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement written by John J. Macaloon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement is the first book-length scholarly study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay. Reporting for the first time on years of intensive ethnographic research and organizational intervention, MacAloon literally follows the Olympic flame through twenty years of intercultural encounter, conflict, and negotiation. Focusing on the frequently harmonious, sometimes perilous encounters among Greek flame relay officials, cultural agents, and discourses, foreign Olympic Games organizing committees, and such transnational actors as the IOC and its corporate sponsors since 1984, a context is created for understanding the significance for the Olympic movement and for globalization studies of the 2004 Athens flame relay, the first to travel the entire world. Through intensive interviews and co-participations with leading Greek and American actors and the contributions of young Greek researchers who worked backstage on the relay, Bearing Light demonstrates how culturally parochial the managerial regime of "world’s best practices" often turns out to be and yet how inescapable it has become for those who wish to communicate across cultural and political boundaries. This dilemma, the contributors argue, constitutes the practical form in which the struggle to preserve a sense of "Olympism" and "the Olympic Movement" against the demands and prerogatives of today’s Olympic sports industry is being chiefly fought out. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society

Olympic Torch Relays

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
ISBN 13 : 9781230827636
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book Olympic Torch Relays written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 61. Chapters: 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay, 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay, 1948 Summer Olympics torch relay, 1952 Winter Olympics torch relay, 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay, 1976 Summer Olympics torch relay, 2000 Summer Olympics torch relay, 2002 Winter Olympics torch relay, 2004 Summer Olympics torch relay, 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest, 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay route, 2010 Summer Youth Olympics torch relay, 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay, 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay route, 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay, List of Olympic torch relays, Olympic flame. Excerpt: The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream." Plans for the relay were announced on April 26, 2007, in Beijing, China. The relay, also called by the organizers as the "Journey of Harmony," lasted 129 days and carried the torch 137,000 km (85,000 mi) - the longest distance of any Olympic torch relay since the tradition was started ahead of the 1936 Summer Olympics. After being lit at the birthplace of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece on March 24, the torch traveled to the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, and then to Beijing, arriving on March 31. From Beijing, the torch was following a route passing through six continents. The torch has visited cities along the Silk Road, symbolizing ancient links between China and the rest of the world. The relay also included an ascent with the flame to the top of Mount Everest on the border of Nepal and Tibet, China from the Chinese side, which was closed specially for the event. In many cities along the North American and European route, the torch relay was protested by advocates of Tibetan independence, animal rights, and legal online gambling, and...

The Story of the Olympic Torch

Author : Philip Barker
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445610280
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Torch written by Philip Barker and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the run, the lighting of the cauldron and other symbolic elements of the Olympic Games

Share the Flame

Author : Alan Hobson
Publisher : Whitecap Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780921061151
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Share the Flame written by Alan Hobson and published by Whitecap Books Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One with the Flame

Author : Mickey Herskowitz
Publisher : New Amer Library
ISBN 13 : 9780453005043
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book One with the Flame written by Mickey Herskowitz and published by New Amer Library. This book was released on 1985 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With nearly two hundred photographs, this book chronicles the odyssey of the 1984 Olympic torch from New York to Los Angeles, drawing on firsthand accounts by participants and spectators and featuring anecdotes about the trip and background sketches of the towns through which the torch passed

The Olympic Torch Relay, Its Origins and Significance

Author : Ansgar Molzberger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Torch Relay, Its Origins and Significance written by Ansgar Molzberger and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, an Olympic torch relay was organised for the first time in history. The idea for the torch relay is attributed to the German Secretary General of the 1936 Olympic Games, Carl Diem. Previously, Pierre de Coubertin, the founding father of the modern Olympic Movement, had used the image of the Olympic torch in several speeches right from the early days of the Olympic Games. After its premiere, the Olympic torch relay became an indispensable part of the Olympic Games. After a lighting ceremony in Ancient Olympia under the responsibility of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, and the handing over of the Olympic flame in Athens to the respective Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, the Olympic flame has since been transported to the Olympic host city with the help of several thousand torchbearers. At the opening ceremony of the Games, the last runner then lights the Olympic flame in a cauldron that burns until the end of the Games. For the Olympic Winter Games, the first torch relay was held in 1952. However, there were "alternative" starting locations initially. For the Olympic torch relay at the 1964 Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, the Olympic flame was lit in Ancient Olympia for the first time. In 2009, the International Olympic Committee decided that, in the future, the Olympic torch relay should again be held primarily in Greece and in the country of the upcoming Olympic host. This article examines the origins, signification and development of the Olympic torch relay.

The Naked Olympics

Author : Tony Perrottet
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 081296991X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Naked Olympics written by Tony Perrottet and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-06-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to attend the ancient Olympic Games? With the summer Olympics’ return to Athens, Tony Perrottet delves into the ancient world and lets the Greek Games begin again. The acclaimed author of Pagan Holiday brings attitude, erudition, and humor to the fascinating story of the original Olympic festival, tracking the event day by day to re-create the experience in all its compelling spectacle. Using firsthand reports and little-known sources—including an actual Handbook for a Sports Coach used by the Greeks—The Naked Olympics creates a vivid picture of an extravaganza performed before as many as forty thousand people, featuring contests as timeless as the javelin throw and as exotic as the chariot race. Peeling away the layers of myth, Perrottet lays bare the ancient sporting experience—including the round-the-clock bacchanal inside the tents of the Olympic Village, the all-male nude workouts under the statue of Eros, and history’s first corruption scandals involving athletes. Featuring sometimes scandalous cameos by sports enthusiasts Plato, Socrates, and Herodotus, The Naked Olympics offers essential insight into today’s Games and an unforgettable guide to the world’s first and most influential athletic festival. "Just in time for the modern Olympic games to return to Greece this summer for the first time in more than a century, Tony Perrottet offers up a diverting primer on the Olympics of the ancient kind….Well researched; his sources are as solid as sources come. It's also well writen….Perhaps no book of the season will show us so briefly and entertainingly just how complete is our inheritance from the Greeks, vulgarity and all." --The Washington Post

1997 Special Olympics Torch Relay

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book 1997 Special Olympics Torch Relay written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carrying a Torch

Author : Mei Yang
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 : 9783034309257
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Carrying a Torch written by Mei Yang and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a corpus-based Discourse-Historical Approach in Critical Discourse Analysis, the author analyses the representation of the 2008 Olympic torch relay in the British and Chinese media, shedding light on the importance of the Olympic Games for East-West media discourse and analysis.

The History of the Olympic Torch Relay

Author : Marianne McCusker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Olympic Torch Relay written by Marianne McCusker and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Detroit 1968 Olympic Torch Relays

Author : Detroit Olympic Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Detroit 1968 Olympic Torch Relays written by Detroit Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Press releases and photographs describing the Detroit torch relay in preparation for Detroit's bid for the 1968 Olympic Games.

The Olympic Torch Relay

Author : Sarah Edworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781118336120
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Torch Relay written by Sarah Edworthy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Olympic Torch Relay

Author : Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Olympic Torch Relay written by Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a pictorial journey of the Olympic torch relay, from the lightening in Olympia on the 29th of September 2013, until the opening ceremony in Sochi on the 7th of February 2014.

Olympic Torch Relay 1980

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Olympic Torch Relay 1980 written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Authorizing the 1991 Special Olympic Torch Relay to Run Through the Capitol Grounds (H. Con. Res. 74) ... Fiscal Year 1992 Budget of the Smithsonian Institution

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authorizing the 1991 Special Olympic Torch Relay to Run Through the Capitol Grounds (H. Con. Res. 74) ... Fiscal Year 1992 Budget of the Smithsonian Institution written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Subcommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Odyssey of the Olympic Torch

Author : Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey of the Olympic Torch written by Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This press kit from the Organising Committee for the Olympics and Paralympics Games contains all the info concerning the route, the torchbearers and the dates for the Olympic Torch Relay Paris 2024.

Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event

Author : Arne Martin Klausen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812032
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event written by Arne Martin Klausen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how the winter games related to Norwegian culture and ethos.