This volume of articles provides an overview of current Australian sporting cultures their impacts on the global community. It examines how changes to the structure and logic of sport have impacted on sports’ practice and administration.
This volume of articles provides an overview of current Australian sporting cultures their impacts on the global community. It examines how changes...
This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the Olympic Games using a multi-disciplinary social science approach. This revised edition contains much new data relating to the Sydney 2000 Games and their aftermath; and preparations for Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008 Games. The book is broad-ranging and independent in its coverage, and includes the use of drugs, sex testing, accusations of power abuse among members of the IOC, the Games as a stage for political protest, media-related controversies, economic costs and benefits of...
This 2nd edition of a highly successful book (published in 2000) provides a comprehensive, critical analysis of the Olympic Games using a multi-discip...