37 min
USA v. All Y’All American Sport
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- Historia
USA v. All Y’All
Where did the Modern Olympic Games comes from? Why do athletes have to compete as representatives of nations? And what would happen if the United States hosted an Olympic Games and nobody showed up? [Spoiler alert: people died]
Bibliography:
Jules Boykoff, Power Games: A Political History of the Olympic Games (New York and London: Verso, 2016).
Mary Dyreson, Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998).
David Goldblatt, The Games: A Global History of the Olympic Games (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2016).
Davd E. Martin and Roger W. H. Gynn, The Olympic Marathon: The History and Drama of Sport’s Most Challenging Event (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2000).
USA v. All Y’All
Where did the Modern Olympic Games comes from? Why do athletes have to compete as representatives of nations? And what would happen if the United States hosted an Olympic Games and nobody showed up? [Spoiler alert: people died]
Bibliography:
Jules Boykoff, Power Games: A Political History of the Olympic Games (New York and London: Verso, 2016).
Mary Dyreson, Making the American Team: Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1998).
David Goldblatt, The Games: A Global History of the Olympic Games (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2016).
Davd E. Martin and Roger W. H. Gynn, The Olympic Marathon: The History and Drama of Sport’s Most Challenging Event (Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2000).
37 min