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In so many ways, this book has been a collective effort. It has been my abundant fortune to have sharp minds and generous spirits on my team. I have numerous people to thank for their assistance, feedback, and encouragement during the writing of this book: Dan Burdsey, Ben Carrington, Tom Carter, Demian Castro, Julian Cheyne, Jeff Derksen, Janice Forsyth, Pete Fussey, Chris Gaffney, Tina Gerhardt, Eva Guggemos, Robin Hahnel, Reg Johanson, Katrina Karkazis, Pam Kofstad, Larissa Lacerda, Isaac Marrero-Guillamón, Cheleen Mahar, Gilmar Mascarenhas, Ian McDonald, Michelle Moore, Tom Mertes, Cecily Nicholson, Christine O’Bonsawin, Christian Parenti, Nicholas Perrin, Jessica Ritter, Matt Seaton, Orlando Santos Junior, Martin Slavin, Cynthia Sloan, Alan Tomlinson, Chris Wilkes, Theresa Williamson, and Dave Zirin.

Thank you to the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western University in Canada for opening their archives to me. A big thank you goes to Rosemarie O’Connor Quinn, Tom Quinn, and Mark Quinn for their hospitality in Dublin and for supplying a photograph of the remarkable Peter O’Connor. And I am grateful to Aline Luginbühl from IOC Images for her assistance securing photographs. Thanks also to the Artists Rights Society and the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Am Johal invited me to Simon Fraser University to present my ideas on the Olympics, as did Jennifer Allen and Adam Davis from Oregon Humanities, and David Harvey and Mary Taylor at the City University of New York—thank you all. I appreciate the kindness and courage of people at NoSochi2014, including Dana Wojokh, Tamara Barsik, Lisa Jarkasi, and Zack Barsik. Massive gratitude goes to Emily Van Vleet and Matthew Yasuoka for their remarkable, reliable research assistance over the years. Thanks be to Sue Schoenbeck, Thom Boykoff, and Meg Eberle for being faithful supporters of my work. And an enormous thank you to Andy Hsiao at Verso for believing in this project, for shaping it in important ways, and for helping me see it through. I am also grateful for Jeff Z. Klein’s incisive editorial acumen.

Some of the ideas in this book were first aired in the Guardian, New Left Review, the New York Times, Olympika: The International Journal of Olympic Studies, Contemporary Social Science, Human Geography, Sport in Society, Al Jazeera America, Red Pepper, Extra!, CounterPunch, Street Roots, the San Francisco Chronicle, Dissent Magazine, and The Nation. Many thanks to the editors I had the good fortune of working with at those publications for their support. And a huge thank you to the many co-authors I have worked with on Olympic politics. This research was supported by a Fulbright research fellowship and a Story-Dondero award from Pacific University in Oregon.

This book would not have possible without the love, support, wit, curiosity, and moxie of Kaia Sand and Jessi Wahnetah. Your ethical metric and inimitable vim buoy my spirit, give me hope, and make everything so much more fun.