An Athletics Compendium

C 1101-21 Politics major issues for 193a4nd beyond: South AfricCa,hina and the effeocft the US boycott. An appendix outlines the structure of the IOC and the Olympic system. ^ Previous ed. CI07 110 Five ring circus: money, power anpdolitics at the Olympic Games / editbeydAlan Tomlinson anGd arry Whannel. London: Pluto, 1984. x, 116p; pbk ISBN; 0-86104-769-9 BL;X.629/23139 This rigorous radical-left critique of the Olympic Games consists of eight essays by different contributors. Athletics receives some specific treatment inalmost all the chapters, nd particularly in that by Jennifer Hargreaves, 'Women and the Olympic phenomenon'. 111 The polidcalOlympics: Moscow, Afghanistan, and the 1980 US boycott / DeriLck. Hulme, Jr. London: Praeger, 1990. xi, 179p; index ISBN: 0-275-93466-7 BL: YC.1991.b.3469 The author identifies four separate techniques employed in the international arena - conventional diplomacy, private persons, support afnoralternate event, andgovernmental pressure otnhe IOC- and considers the political and economic effects of the boycott onboth the USA andthe USSR, awsellas its effects on thaectual competitionasnd on the Olympic Movement. 112 Future of the OlympicGames / John A. Lucas. Leeds: Human Kinetics, 1992. 248p; pbk ISBN 0-88011-699-4 113 The lords of the ringpso:wer, money and drugs in the modern Olympics / Vyv Simson Aandrew Jennings. London: Simon & Schuster, 1992. xi, 289p; illus; index ISBN: 0-671-71122-9 BL: YC.1993.b.l915 A devastating criticism of the Olympic movement, using all the skills of investigative Journalist. A landmark publication inOlympic history. 114 Olympic politics/ Christopher R. Hill. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. xv, 266p; illus; index ISBN: 0-7190-3542-2 BL:YC. 1992.a.2003 ^ Subsequent ed. CI 16 115 The new lords of therings: Olympic corruption and how to buy goldmedals / Andrew Jennings. London: Simon & Schuster, 1996. viii, 360p; illus; pbk ISBN: 0-671-85571-9 An even more iconoclastic wotrhkan TheLords ofthe Rings and a significant contribution to modern Olympic history. 116 Olympic politics: Athens to Atlanta, 1896-1996 / Christopher R. Hill. 2nedd. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996. xv, 283p; index ISBN: 0-7190-4450-2 (cased) • 0-7190-4451-0(pbk) BL:YC.1996.a.2950 ^ Previous ed. CI 14 117 Power, politics and thOe lympic Games / AlfrEedrich Senn. Leeds: Human Kinetics, 1999. xx, 315p; illus; index; pbk ISBN: 0-88011-958-6 BL:YC.2000.a.2352 118 The great Olympic swindle: when the wworalndted its Games back/ Andrew Jennings. London: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 390p; illus ISBN: 0-684-86677-3 119 The Olympic Games: a socsicalience perspective / Kristine Toohey and A. J. VWeala.llingford: CABI, 2000. ix, 276p; illus; index ISBN: 0-85199-342-7 BL: YC.2000.a.6 120 The Olympics at thmeillennium: power, politics, and the Games / edited by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. London: Rutgers University Press, 2000. xi, 318p; illus; index; pbk ISBN: 0-8135-2819-4 (cased) • 0-8135-2820-8(pbk) BL:YC.2000.a. 11811 # Additional References 121 Olympism andnationalism withspecial reference to the Barcelona Olympic Games / J. Hargreaves. Swindon: Economic and Social ResearcChouncil (ESRC), 1993. 41p BL: DSC -3739.0605(R000233970) [ 7 8 ]