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Stephen Halliday. The Olympics
AMAZING & EXTRAORDINARY FACTS. THE OLYMPICS. STEPHEN HALLIDAY
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION: ‘THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH’
THE ANCIENT GAMES. The Ancient Games. Holding hands
NOT LIKE NEWMARKET
THE TROJAN WAR
21ST CENTURY OLYMPIC PEACE
OLYMPICS AND OLYMPIADS
PINDAR
CHEATING
MADE IN ENGLAND: REVIVING THE OLYMPICS. The Cotswold Olympicks. Shin-kicking and navvies
SHIN-KICKING
Pierre de Fredi, Baron Coubertin (1863–1937) ‘Anglomaniacs of Sport’
CHARLES KINGSLEY (1819–75)
TOYNBEE HALL
The Baron and the Doctor ‘The vast Gothic chapel’
A CLASSICAL EDUCATION
WILLIAM WEBB ELLIS
The Chelsea Olympics. The ‘Baron’ and the Carousel ride
THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPIAN: WILLIAM PENNY BROOKES AND MUCH WENLOCK. The First PE Teacher? William Penny Brookes and the Much Wenlock Olympics
Managing the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee
THE GREEKS JOIN IN! An Independent Nation. Lord Byron and ‘Tilting at the Ring’
ROYAL CONNECTIONS
THE MODERN OLYMPICS TAKE SHAPE. The First Olympic Congress. Two famous Belgians
PRETTY FANNY
SALT LAKE CITY BID SCANDAL
The Olympic Charter. From two sentences to five chapters
JULES RIMET
DOPING
Orders and Cups. Dictators, a drunk and a Pope
ATHENS 1896: THE FIRST MODERN OLYMPICS. Overspent budgets and dodgy dates, but a triumph nevertheless ‘Twelve foot waves and terribly cold water’
JULIUS OR GREGORY?
A TRUE MARATHON
Paris 1900. Duck when you see the discus thrower
WHEN IN GREECE …
GOLD TEETH?
YOUNGEST EVER
St Louis, Missouri, 1904. A bad case of cramp
Athens, 1906. The Intercalated Games
JOIN THE CLUB
THE OLYMPICS GATHER PACE. When not in Rome… London to the Rescue
WHITE CITY
NO TROUBLE COUNTING THE GOALS
MEDLEY RELAY
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
Stockholm 1912 ‘The Greatest Athlete in the World’ – disqualified!
TWO WARS AND A SLAP IN THE FACE
RECOVERING FROM WAR. Antwerp 1920. A Sculler, a Princess and a Tug-of-War
TUG OF WAR
Paris 1924: Chariots of Fire. But not in Cambridge
LONGER AND HIGHER
CHARIOTS OF BRONZE
GOLDEN OLDIES
Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876–1942) IOC President, 1925–42: the man who ticked off Hitler
Amsterdam 1928. Eminent Victorians and distressed women
HERE COME THE GIRLS
WOMEN’S EVENTS
YOUNG, YOUNGER, YOUNGEST
Los Angeles 1932. Cowboys and Coffee
HOW MANY NATIONS?
FINLAND REJOICE
HOW MANY EVENTS?
Berlin, 1936. Hitler and the ‘Black Auxiliaries’
A SPANISH BOYCOTT
TROUBLES WITH JEWS
SO WHO’S BEING RACIST?
SIGRID EDSTROM, IOC PRESIDENT, 1946–52
RECOVERING FROM ANOTHER WAR. London 1948: The Austerity Olympics. Craven A and ‘Looking into Underpants’
WILSON AND LAURIE
THE FLYING DUTCHWOMAN
TWO-HANDED THROWING AND ALL THAT
Avery Brundage. IOC President 1952–72
ERNEST LEE JAHNCKE (1877–1960)
A COLOURFUL PRIVATE LIFE
Helsinki 1952. The Hungarians arrive
THE PARALYMPICS ARE BORN
Melbourne 1956 ‘Boxing Under Water’
MILES AND MARATHONS
Rome 1960. Ethiopians and steamy bathrooms
Tokyo 1964. Cold, wet and waterlogged – fortunately for Britain
Mexico City 1968. Altitude and Black Power
THE MAN IN BLACK
Munich 1972. An Olympic Tragedy
GOLDEN GIRLS, AND BOYS
THE HEAD WAITER
OLDEST, TALLEST AND BIGGEST
LORD KILLANIN, IOC PRESIDENT 1972–80
THE ERA OF BOYCOTTS. Montreal 1976. Boycotts and near bankruptcy
INNSBRUCK AGAIN, BUT STILL NO CANADIANS
PRESSING THE WRONG BUTTON
THE SOVIET FEMALE GIANT
Moscow 1980. More boycotts
SMALL BUT TOUGH
LAKE PLACID AGAIN
Juan Antonio Samaranch, IOC President, 1980–2001. The Order of the Golden Fleece: ‘beyond the dreams of avarice’
TV RULES
Los Angeles 1984. Television to the rescue
SARAJEVO
DRUGS
THE PROFESSIONALS ARRIVE AND TV TAKES HOLD. Seoul, 1988. Troublesome neighbours
CALGARY
THE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN MEDAL
CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF IT
Paralympics take flight ‘An integrated whole’
Barcelona 1992. Triumph for the ‘Unified Team’(?)
ALBERTVILLE, 1992
Medal tables
Atlanta 1996. The Coca-Cola Games
A MINUTE FOR SARAJEVO
Sydney 2000. Watch out for sharks!
JACQUES ROGGE, IOC PRESIDENT, 2001–
‘THE CITY OF … LONDON’
Athens, 2004. Home again
SALT LAKE CITY
Beijing 2008. Birds Nests and ‘re-education through labour’
TURIN 2006
THEY LIKE ’EM YOUNG
LONDON 2012. London 2012. Don’t forget the newts!
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