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The 1912 Stockholm Olympics

Author : Leif Yttergren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147660066X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The 1912 Stockholm Olympics written by Leif Yttergren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-14 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Gustaf V of Sweden inaugurated the Fifth Olympiad at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm on July 6, 1912. In the following weeks, 2,380 competitors from 27 nations representing six continents participated in well-organized competitions in perfect weather conditions. The largest Olympics yet at the time, the Stockholm Games have thus gone down in history as the Sunshine Olympics, or "the Swedish Masterpiece." Since that achievement, and despite numerous attempts by other Swedish cities, Sweden has not yet managed to host the Olympic Games again. This work examines the 1912 Stockholm Olympics from a variety of perspectives, exploring the preparations, organization, competitions, participants, and spectators, as well as the continuing significance of the 1912 Games to Sweden and to the future of the Olympic movement.

The 1912 Olympic Games

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786440696
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The 1912 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. Much of the success is credited to the influence of Viktor Balck, who is remembered as "The Father of Swedish Sports." The 1912 Olympics also featured new innovations and events. A semiautomatic electrical timing device and a photo-finish camera were used, and the decathlon and modern pentathalon were new events. This work, the sixth in a series on the early Olympics, provides unusually extensive information on the sites, dates, competitors, and nations of the Stockholm games. Results for each event, including cycling, diving, fencing, rowing and sculling, shooting, tennis, water polo, and yachting, among others, are provided.

The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912

Author : James Edward Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912 written by James Edward Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official presentation brochure of the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm.

Report, 1912

Author : British Columbia. Royal Commission on Matters Relating to the Sect of Doukhobors in the Province of British Columbia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Report, 1912 written by British Columbia. Royal Commission on Matters Relating to the Sect of Doukhobors in the Province of British Columbia and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nazi Olympics

Author : Anrd Krüger
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091647
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Nazi Olympics written by Anrd Krüger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1936 Olympic Games played a key role in the development of both Hitler’s Third Reich and international sporting competition. The Nazi Olympics gathers essays by modern scholars from prominent participating countries and lays out the issues--sporting as well as political--surrounding the involvement of individual nations. The volume opens with an analysis of Germany’s preparations for the Games and the attempts by the Nazi regime to allay the international concerns about Hitler’s racist ideals and expansionist ambitions. Essays follow on the United States, Great Britain, and France--top-tier Olympian nations with misgivings about participation--as well as Germany's future Axis partners Italy and Japan. Other contributions examine the issues involved for Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Throughout, the authors reveal the high political stakes surrounding the Games and how the Nazi Olympics distilled critical geopolitical issues of the time into a spectacle of sport.

The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions

Author : Richard Stanton
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1552126064
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions written by Richard Stanton and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Olympic Art Competitions of the 20th Century including data tables and selected competitor biographical sketches.

The 1912 Olympic Games

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1912 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. Much of the success is credited to the influence of Viktor Balck, who is remembered as "The Father of Swedish Sports." The 1912 Olympics also featured new innovations and events. A semiautomatic electrical timing device and a photo-finish camera were used, and the decathlon and modern pentathalon were new events. This work, the sixth in a series on the early Olympics, provides unusually extensive information on the sites, dates, competitors, and nations of the Stockholm games. Results for each event, including cycling, diving, fencing, rowing and sculling, shooting, tennis, water polo, and yachting, among others, are provided.

United States Olympic Book

Author : United States Olympic Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book United States Olympic Book written by United States Olympic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for include reports of the Olympic winter games.

The 1912 Stockholm Olympics

Author : Leif Yttergren
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647131X
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The 1912 Stockholm Olympics written by Leif Yttergren and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Gustaf V of Sweden inaugurated the Fifth Olympiad at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm on July 6, 1912. In the following weeks, 2,380 competitors from 27 nations representing six continents participated in well-organized competitions in perfect weather conditions. The largest Olympics yet at the time, the Stockholm Games have thus gone down in history as the Sunshine Olympics, or "the Swedish Masterpiece." Since that achievement, and despite numerous attempts by other Swedish cities, Sweden has not yet managed to host the Olympic Games again. This work examines the 1912 Stockholm Olympics from a variety of perspectives, exploring the preparations, organization, competitions, participants, and spectators, as well as the continuing significance of the 1912 Games to Sweden and to the future of the Olympic movement.

Success and Failure of Countries at the Olympic Games

Author : Danyel Reiche
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131763277X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Success and Failure of Countries at the Olympic Games written by Danyel Reiche and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Games is undoubtedly the greatest sporting event in the world, with over 200 countries competing for success. This important new study of the Olympics investigates why some countries are more successful than others. Which factors determine their failure or success? What is the relationship between these factors? And how can these factors be manipulated to influence a country’s performance in sport? This book addresses these questions and discusses the theoretical concepts that explain why national sporting success has become a policy priority around the globe. Danyel Reiche reassesses our understanding of success in sport and challenges the conventional explanations that population size and economic strength are the main determinants for a country’s Olympic achievements. He presents a theory of countries’ success and failure, based on detailed investigations of the relationships between a wide variety of factors that influence a country’s position in the Olympic medals table, including geography, ideology, policies such as focusing on medal promising sports, home advantage and the promotion of women. This book fills a long-standing gap in literature on the Olympics and will provide valuable insights for all students, scholars, policy makers and journalists interested in the Olympic Games and the wider relationship between sport, politics, and nationalism.

Olympism

Author : Pierre de Coubertin
Publisher : Lausanne, Switzerland : International Olympic Committee
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Olympism written by Pierre de Coubertin and published by Lausanne, Switzerland : International Olympic Committee. This book was released on 2000 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of the most important documents and speeches by Pierre de Coubertin on Olympism and the Olympic Games.

Native American Son

Author : Kate Buford
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375413243
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Native American Son written by Kate Buford and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles defining moments in the career of the preeminent American athlete, from his contributions to college football and gold-medal wins at the 1912 Olympics to his role in shaping professional football and baseball, in a portrait that also discusses his private struggles and political views.

Waterman

Author : David Davis
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803254776
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Waterman written by David Davis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterman is the first comprehensive biography of Duke Kahanamoku (1890–1968): swimmer, surfer, Olympic gold medalist, Hawaiian icon, waterman. Long before Michael Phelps and Mark Spitz made their splashes in the pool, Kahanamoku emerged from the backwaters of Waikiki to become America’s first superstar Olympic swimmer. The original “human fish” set dozens of world records and topped the world rankings for more than a decade; his rivalry with Johnny Weissmuller transformed competitive swimming from an insignificant sideshow into a headliner event. Kahanamoku used his Olympic renown to introduce the sport of “surf-riding,” an activity unknown beyond the Hawaiian Islands, to the world. Standing proudly on his traditional wooden longboard, he spread surfing from Australia to the Hollywood crowd in California to New Jersey. No American athlete has influenced two sports as profoundly as Kahanamoku did, and yet he remains an enigmatic and underappreciated figure: a dark-skinned Pacific Islander who encountered and overcame racism and ignorance long before the likes of Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Jackie Robinson. Kahanamoku’s connection to his homeland was equally important. He was born when Hawaii was an independent kingdom; he served as the sheriff of Honolulu during Pearl Harbor and World War II and as a globetrotting “Ambassador of Aloha” afterward; he died not long after Hawaii attained statehood. As one sportswriter put it, Duke was “Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey combined down here.” In Waterman, award-winning journalist David Davis examines the remarkable life of Duke Kahanamoku, in and out of the water. Purchase the audio edition.

The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912 (1912)

Author : James Edward Sullivan
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498168250
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Games, Stockholm, 1912 (1912) written by James Edward Sullivan and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.

A Century of Olympic Posters

Author : Margaret Timmers
Publisher : Victoria & Albert Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Century of Olympic Posters written by Margaret Timmers and published by Victoria & Albert Museum. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of the world. This collection of images offers an intensely visual representation of the modern Games, and shows the evolution of the Olympic Games poster as well.

The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming

Author : John Lohn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442237007
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming written by John Lohn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every four years the summer Olympic Games capture the world’s attention. Over 10,000 athletes from more than 200 countries gather to prove they are the best in their sports. From the first competition held in 1896 to the 2012 London Olympics, the games have hosted some of swimming’s greatest victories and toughest defeats. Fans have witnessed Johnny Weissmuller win back-to-back Olympic gold medals before he found fame on the big screen as Tarzan; they have seen Dara Torres defy age to win three silver medals at the age of 41; and they will forever remember Michael Phelps capturing a record eight gold medals at the 2008 games. The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming relives the sport’s greatest moments on its biggest stage. Through careful research and the personal recollections from the athletes themselves, John Lohn has brought together the key performances, top athletes, major controversies, and improbable victories of the games. Organized chronologically, the progression of swimming as an Olympic sport comes to life as the top 25 moments are revealed. The best swimmers in Olympic history are featured throughout, from Mark Spitz and Ian Thorpe to Debbie Meyer and Dawn Fraser. Dozens of photographs highlight the athletes and their shared passion for swimming glory. Detailed appendixes include the top Olympic medal winners by country and by athlete, and a bibliography provides key swimming references for the reader. Swimming fans, coaches, athletes, and researchers will enjoy this history of a sport rich in tradition and spectacular moments.

Sporting Performances

Author : Shannon L. Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429560184
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Sporting Performances written by Shannon L. Walsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting Performances is the first anthology to tackle sports and physical culture from a performance perspective; it serves as an invitation and provocation for scholarly discourse on the connections between sports and physical culture, and theatre and performance. Through a series of intriguing case studies that blur the lines between the realms of politics, sports, physical culture, and performance, this book assumes that sporting performances, much like theatre, serve as barometers, mirrors, and refractors of the culture in which they are enmeshed. Some of the topics include nineteenth-century variety show pugilists, athletes on Broadway, sumo wrestlers, rhythmic gymnasts, and Strava enthusiasts. While analyzing sport through the lens of theatre and performance, this anthology reflects on how physical culture and sports contribute to identity formation and the effects of nuanced imprints of physical activity on the mind, soul, and tongue. Written primarily for those interested in physical fitness, sports, dance, and physical theatre, this interdisciplinary volume is a crucial tool for Performance and Theatre Studies students and those in the fields of Sports Studies, Cultural Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and American Studies more broadly.