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Title: The Modern Olympics: A Struggle for Revival by David C. Young ISBN: 0-8018-7207-3 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book to Read on the History of the Modern Olympic Games
Comment: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded in 1894 by Baron Pierre de Coubertin. The first President of the IOC was D. Vikelas.
This book shatters the myth that Baron Pierre de Coubertin was solely responsible for the re-establishment of the Olympic Games in the 19th Century. Coubertin was one of many who contributed to the re-establishment of the Olympic Games but most notably: Soutsos (poet), Zappas (philanthropist and founder of the Olympic revival in Greece), Dr Brookes (founder of the Olympic revival in the United Kingdom) and Vikelas (first President of the IOC).
The author documents a history of the Olympic revival and describes the national Olympic Games held in Athens, Greece (the Zappas Games) and in Much Wenlock, Shropshire (United Kingdom) in the mid-1800s. He traces the ideals for the revival of the Ancient Greek Olympics to poems published by the Greek poet Soutsos in the early 1800s.
The author gives properly referenced evidence that Coubertin was inspired by Dr Brookes and documents how the first modern national Olympics were held in Athens and in Much Wenlock.
The first modern international Olympics was held in Athens in 1896 after the establishment of the International Olympic Committee.
Highly recommended book. The only book that I have read that has made a real effort to record the facts on Modern Olympic history in the 19th Century. Very interesting and very easy to read.
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Title: The Ancient Olympic Games by Judith Swaddling ISBN: 0292777515 Publisher: University of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Selling the Five Rings: The International Olympic Committee and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism by Robert Knight Barney, Stephen R. Wenn, Scott G. Martyn ISBN: 0874807131 Publisher: University of Utah Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: History of the Olympic Games by Constantine L. Sirracos, Constantine Sirracos ISBN: 1885778538 Publisher: Seaburn Publishing Pub. Date: 15 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: The Olympics at the Millennium: Power Politics and the Games by Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith ISBN: 0813528208 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Olympics: A History of Modern Games (Illinois History of Sports) by Allen Guttmann ISBN: 0252070461 Publisher: University of Illinois Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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