Sport Development and Olympic Studies: Past, Present, and Future

ISBN-13: 9780367368630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 150 str.

Stephan Wassong; Robert Hess; Michael Heine

Opis

In 2017 the Olympic Studies Centre organized a workshop on Sport Development and Olympic Studies. The presentations and discussions they engendered, identifying new international collaborative research fields and deepening research on the Olympics, Olympic Movement and sport development, resulted in this book.

Spis treści

Introduction Stephan Wassong, Michael Heine, and Rob Hess  1. Academic Return to the Global Sport Community after World War II – The Installation of the Sport University Cologne’s First International Relations Ansgar Molzberger  2. The Diversity of National Sport Development Institutions Till Muller-Schoell  3. The International Olympic Committee’s Tripartite Commission and Its Influence on the Foundation of the Athletes’ Commission Stephan Wassong  4. Sport Aid: Famine Relief, Fun Runs, Fundraising Jörg Krieger  5. Melbourne’s Status as an Olympic City: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives Richard Baka  6. Olympic Commodification and Civic Spaces at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games: A Political Topology of Contestation Michael Heine  7. More than a Miracle: The Korean War, Cold War Politics, and the 1960 Olympic Hockey Tournament MacIntosh Ross and E. K. Nagel  8. The Historical Background to Pakistan’s Participation at the Olympic Games and Its Performances in Field Hockey, 1948–1956 Akhtar Nawaz and Rob Hess