Title:
The best Olympics ever? : social impacts of Sydney 2000
Author:
Lenskyj, Helen.
ISBN:
9780791454732
9780791454749
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Publication Information:
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.
Physical Description:
x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.
Series:
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations
SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
Contents:
1. The Mass Media: Olympic Industry Boosters and Critics -- 2. Police, Protest, and Olympic Legislation: "You've Got to Keep the Buggers under Control" -- 3. Black and White Australia: Reconciliation and Sydney 2000 -- 4. "You Can't Share the Spirit if You Can't Pay the Rent": Housing and Homelessness in the Olympic City -- 5. Olympic Values, Impacts, and Issues: The Real Legacy -- 6. Productive Partnerships: Corporatized Universities Meet the Olympic Industry -- 7. "I'm Not Against the Olympics, But ...": Local and Global Resistance -- 8. Bondi Beach Volleyball Stadium: The Battlers Lose the Beach -- 9. September 2000 in Melbourne and Sydney: Democracy at Risk.
Abstract:
"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 Lenskyi discloses what the Sydney 2000 Olympic industry suppressed: the real costs and impacts."--BOOK JACKET.
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