The International Olympic Committee and the olympic system: The governance of world sport

The International Olympic Committee and the Olympic System: The Governance of World Sport

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-208

  Chappelet, Jean Loup ^a   Kübler Mabbott, Brenda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

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EID: 84919552330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203893173     Document Type: Book

References (17)

1. John Bale and Mette Krogh-Christensen, eds., Post-Olympism? Questioning Sport in the Twenty-first Century (Oxford: Berg, 2004). A series of highly critical articles on the Olympic movement and the Games.
2. Robert K. Barney, Stephen R. Wenn, and Scott J. Martyn, Selling the Five Rings: The IOC and the rise of Olympic commercialism (Salt Lake City:University of Utah Press, 2002). An in-depth history of the advent of sponsors and broadcasters within the Olympic System.
3. John E. Findling and Kimberly D. Pelle, eds., Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004). Devotes a chapter to the history of the IOC, to each edition of the Summer and Winter Games, to the various IOC Presidents and to various other Olympic subjects. Each chapter includes a useful bibliographical essay.
4. John Forster and Nigel K.Ll. Pope, The Political Economy of Global Sporting Organisations (London: Routledge, 2004). This book analyzes the evolution of modern sport, examining the ways in which sporting organizations, such as the IOC, FIFA, and the ICC (International Cricket Council), have adapted over the years to accommodate changing environments.
5. John R. Gold and Margaret M. Gold, eds., Olympic Cities: Urban planning, city agendas and the world's Games, 1896 to the present (London: Routledge, 2006). Reviews the effect of the Olympic Games on the cities that have organized them and the organizational challenges that they involved. Around a dozen essays on emblematic Olympic cities complete the work.
6. Allen Guttmann, The Olympics: A history of the Modern Games (Chicago:University of Illinois Press, 2002). One of the best reference works on the history of the modern Games. The same author wrote a biography of Avery Brundage, IOC President from 1952 through 1972 (The Games Must Go On).
7. Christopher Hill, Olympic Politics (Manchester: University Press, 1996). The work shows how and why politics have always been central to the organization of the Games and the development of the Olympic system.
8. Barrie Houlihan, Dying to Win: Doping in sport and the development of antidoping policy (Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 1999). A detailed history of the fight against doping prior to the creation of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
9. Fernand Landry and Madeleine Yerlès, One Hundred Years. The idea, the presidents, the achievements. Vol. III: The presidencies of Lord Killanin and Juan Antonio Samaranch (Lausanne: CIO, 1996). The history of the IOC during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Despite being an official work, the text includes extremely interesting statistics that reveal the striking growth of the IOC and the Games during the period. Vols. I and II cover the periods 1896-1942 and 1943-72.
10. Helen Lenskyj Jefferson, Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics and Activism (New York, SUNY Press, 2000). A very critical panorama of the Olympic system.
11. John J. MacAloon, This Great Symbol: Pierre de Coubertin and the Origins of the Modern Olympic Games (Chicago: University Press, 1981). A seminal work in order to understand the renovator of the Games and the beginnings of the Olympic movement. MacAloon has also recently published a fascinating book on the evolution of the Olympic Flame Relay.
12. Michael Payne, Olympic Turnaround: How the Olympic Games stepped back from the brink of extinction to become the world's best known brand (London:Praeger, 2006). The book describes the introduction of marketing techniques in the Games for the greater benefit of Olympic finances and the glory of its author, who was the IOC's marketing director for 15 years.
13. Richard Pound, Inside the Olympics: A behind-the-scenes look at the politics, the scandals, and the glory of the Olympics (London: Wiley, 2004). An account of the last 20 years of the IOC and the Games by a Canadian member who was a candidate to succeed Samaranch and the first president of the World Anti-Doping Agency. Pound has written several other books on various aspects of Olympic history and the fight against doping.
14. Holger Preuss, The Economics of Staging the Olympics: A comparison of the Games 1972-2008 (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2004). An impressive series of financial and economic statistics regarding the organization of the Games since those of Munich in 1972.
15. Alfred E. Senn, Power, Politics, and the Olympic Games: A history of the power brokers, events, and controversies that shaped the Games (Champaign, IL:Human Kinetics, 1999). A synthesis written by a historian of the Cold War that shows the evolution of the IOC since its foundation.
16. Eleni Theodoraki, Olympic Event Organization (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007). This work focuses on the recent Organising Committees of the Olympic Games and those of other major events.
17. Kevin Young and Kevin B. Wamsley, Global Olympics: Historical and Sociological Studies of the Modern Games (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005).