03216nam 2200565I 450 991096255480332120200416154146.01-83867-775-59781838677756 (electronic book)1-83867-773-9(CKB)4100000010946353(MiAaPQ)EBC6158240(Au-PeEL)EBL6158240(OCoLC)1150154498(UtOrBLW)9781838677756(EXLCZ)99410000001094635320200416d2020 uy 0engurun|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Olympic Games a critical approach /authored by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (University of Toronto, Canada)First edition.Bingley, United Kingdom :Emerald Publishing Limited,2020.©20201 online resource (xiii, 250 pages.)SocietyNowIncludes index.1-83867-776-3 Includes bibliographical references.Chapter 1: Introduction and background -- Chapter 2: Olympic resistance -- Chapter 3: 'Sport and politics don't mix' -- Chapter 4: Olympic industry impacts -- Chapter 5: Reform: 'to restore reputation' -- Chapter 6: Athletes, politics, and protest -- Chapter 7: 'Educating youth through sport' -- Chapter 8: Athletes' rights, athletes' lives -- Chapter 9: Gender policies: challenges and responses -- Chapter 10: The Olympics: 'not a welfare program but a business venture'.Do the Olympic Games really live up to their glowing reputation? As the biggest global sport mega-event, the Olympics command public attention, while Olympic mythology obscures their underlying function as a profit-making business. Unlike terms such as 'Olympic movement' and 'Olympic family', the concept of 'Olympic industry' focuses on sport as an economic and political enterprise, with its beneficiaries including sponsors, media rights holders, developers, and politicians. Negative impacts on host cities disproportionately threaten the lives and well-being of disadvantaged minorities. Citizens' Olympic resistance campaigns address a range of human rights abuses, while recent athlete activism also focuses on the doping problem and the sexual abuse of girls and women. Female athletes with 'differences of sexual development' face discriminatory gender policies that disqualify them from women's events. All of these issues are analysed through a feminist, anti-racist lens.SocietyNow.OlympicsSocial aspectsOlympicsEconomic aspectsSports & Recreation, Olympics & ParalympicsbisacshOlympic & Paralympic gamesbicsscOlympicsSocial aspects.OlympicsEconomic aspects.Sports & Recreation, Olympics & Paralympics.Olympic & Paralympic games.796.48Jefferson Lenskyj Helen1858949UtOrBLWUtOrBLWBOOK9910962554803321The Olympic Games4462075UNINA