The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
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Jules Boykoff. Power Games
Power Games. A Political Historyof the Olympics
Contents
Foreword. By Dave Zirin
Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Operation Olympic Games”
1. Coubertin and the Revival of the Olympic Games
2. Alternatives to the Olympics
3. Cold War Games
4. Commercialization of the Olympics
5. The Celebration Capitalism Era
6. The 2016 Rio Summer Olympics and the Path Ahead
Bibliography
Notes
Index
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Jules Boykoff is the author of Activism and the Olympics, Celebration Capitalism and the Olympic Games, Landscapes of Dissent, and Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the United States, among others. He is a professor of politics and government at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
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In the wake of the 1896 Games, Vikelas stepped down as the head of the IOC, and Coubertin ascended from general secretary to president. He held this position until 1925, when at the age of 62 he retired. His extended tenure set the tone for future presidents to remain at the helm of the IOC for long periods of time. To date, the IOC has had just nine presidents in its 120-year history.
