Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

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Rowman & Littlefield, 14/05/2015 - 906 páginas
The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace.

This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.
 

Índice

Editors Foreword
xi
Preface
xiii
Acronyms and Abbreviations
xv
Chronology
xxix
The Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games
xliii
Introduction
1
A
25
B
55
Z
649
Presidents of the International Olympic Committee
657
The Games of the Olympiads Sites Dates Nations Athletes
659
The Olympic Winter Games Sites Dates Nations Athletes
661
Members of the International Olympic Committee
663
Awards of the International Olympic Committee
675
Final Olympic Torchbearers Within the Olympic Stadium
681
Speakers of the Olympic Oath
685

C
101
D
145
E
169
F
187
G
209
H
239
I
259
J
287
K
299
L
325
M
349
N
385
O
405
P
459
Q
485
R
487
S
507
T
569
U
593
V
609
W
617
X
641
Y
643
Official Openings of the Olympic Games
687
Most Olympic Medals Won Summer Men
689
Most Olympic Medals Won Summer Women
691
Most Olympic Gold Medals Won Summer Men
693
Most Olympic Gold Medals Won Summer Women
695
Most Olympic Medals Won Winter Men
697
Most Olympic Medals Won Winter Women
699
Most Olympic Gold Medals Won Winter Men
701
Most Olympic Gold Medals Won Winter Women
703
Most Appearances Summer Men
705
Most Appearances Summer Women
707
Most Appearances Winter Men
709
Most Appearances Winter Women
711
List of All Positive Drug Tests at the Olympic Games
713
Attempts at Olympic Revival Prior to 1896
723
International FederationsSportAccord
725
Olympic Summer Games Participants
729
Olympic Winter Games Participants
739
Olympic Sports
745
Bid Cities
751
Bibliography
759
About the Authors
795
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John Grasso, an Olympic historian and Treasurer of the International Society of Olympic Historians, was born in New York City, raised in Queens, NY, educated as an accountant but spent most of his working life in data processing. He moved to Guilford in Central New York State in 1980, has written on boxing, wrestling, bowling, basketball, tennis and football and has traveled extensively—visiting more than forty-five countries and attending nine Olympic Games.

Bill Mallon a former professional golfer, is an orthopedic surgeon whose lifelong interest in the Olympic Games became a second career while he was in medical school at Duke University. This fifth edition is his twenty-fifth book on the Olympic Games. With Erich Kamper, he coauthored The Golden Book of the Olympic Games, and with the late Ian Buchanan he wrote Quest for Gold: The Encyclopedia of American Olympians and several other books, including the first three editions of this book. He is the author of a series of books on the earliest Olympic Games (1896–1920) and is a founding member and past president of the International Society of Olympic Historians and former editor of ISOH’s Journal of Olympic History. For his contributions to the Olympic Movement, he was awarded the Olympic Order in Silver in 2001. He also serves as the President of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) (2014-15), editor-in-chief of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, medical editor of Golf Digest, and medical editor of Orthopaedic Coding Newsletter.

Jeroen Heijmans is an information technology (IT) professional from the Netherlands. Fascinated by the Olympics since he was nine years old, he is involved in the OlyMADMen, a group that attempts to collect complete historic results of the Olympic Games (partially available on www.sportsreference.com/olympics). He has written extensively about the Olympic Games on the Dutch sports history site Sportgeschiedenis.nl and is a member (and the web master) of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH).

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