Recently added articles from Proceedings: International Symposium for Olympic Research:
Preface.(Pathways: Critiques and Discourse in Olympic Research symposium)(Conference notes)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Pathways: Critiques and Discourse in Olympic Research, is the title of the Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium for Olympic Research organized and published by the International Centre for Olympic Studies (ICOS) at The University of Western Ontario. The ICOS International ...
The future of the Olympic Movement: promised land or train wreck?(Opening Address)(Viewpoint essay)
Jan 01, 2008; ... May I begin by thanking you for this kind invitation to attend your deliberations and by congratulating you on your interest in research relating to the Olympic Movement. As a member of the International Olympic Committee for more than thirty years, as a former secretary and president of a ...
Western centrism in Olympic studies and its consequence in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.(18TH Earle F. Zeiger Lecture--Keynote Address)(Report)
Jan 01, 2008; ... The Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be only the third time the Olympic Summer Games have been held outside the West and its former colonies, after Tokyo 1964 and Seoul 1988. If one adds the 1972 Sapporo and 1998 Nagano Winter Games, these will be the fifth Olympic Games outside the West ....
Pierre de Coubertin's ideology of beauty from the perspective of the history of ideas.(In memoriam)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Coubertin's lexicon is littered with the term, or derivatives of the term, beauty. He talks of the "radiant beauty" of the Empress Eudoxia, (1) the "beauty" of gymnastics, (2) the "beauty" of a World's Fair, (3) and of course, the "beauty" of sport itself. (4) Places are similarly ...
The 'Greek Department' in Denmark and Pierre de Coubertin's manipulations: a case study regarding politics and ideology in the Olympic Movement.(Case study)
Jan 01, 2008; ... Introduction In 1906 there were two anniversaries to be celebrated for Danish sport. In February the Danish Sports Federation (DSF) (1) had its tenth birthday, and a few months later it was the tenth anniversary of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 (Athens). Denmark had ...