Olympic Politics

An investigation into the politics behind 100 years of Olympic Games history. It begins with an explanation of who holds power within the Olympic movement, how it is financed, and how the costly process of bidding for the games works. The new edition contains new material covering South Africa's exclusion from the Olympics (which ended in 1992) , Atlanta's successful bid and preparations for the 1996 Olympics, and whether "gigantism," in terms of the scale of the games and the movement's sense of its own importance, threatens its future. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.