The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt
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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics
David Goldblatt
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...any attempt to show the big picture of Olympic history — the global, national and sports politics, the commercialisation, the financial corruption, the drug scandals and, lest we forget, the sporting glories — [is] very welcome indeed. This is especially true when the attempt produces something as illuminating, erudite, fair-minded and readable as David Goldblatt’s outstanding book The Games..
In trying to write a narrative of the entire Olympics, Goldblatt, the author of a global history of soccer, has taken on a challenge worthy of a marathoner.
The Olympics have never really been about sport. As David Goldblatt shows in this bracingly debunking history.
Mr. Goldblatt traces the development of the Games in every respect, from the launch of a Winter Olympiad in 1924 to the efforts to give women an equal place in every sport, from the introduction of the Paralympics to the rise of the Olympic 'Village'.
Goldblatt’s account of the history of performance-enhancing drugs at the Olympics is particularly striking, coming amid new revelations of Russia’s state-sponsored doping program of recent years.