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A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the events 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 Womens Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
