The Best Olympics Ever?

Social Impacts of Sydney 2000

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
eISBN-13: 9780791488102

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<p>Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.</p><p>Despite International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samarach's proclaiming the Sydney 2000 Olympics as the "best ever," the truth of the matter is much less one-sided. In The Best Olympics Ever? Helen Jefferson Lenskyj discloses what the Sydney 2000 Olympic industry suppressed: the real costs and impacts.</p>

ISBNs 9780791454749, 9780791488102, 0791488101
Language English