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100	1		_aJefferson Lenskyj, Helen, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Olympic Games : _ba critical approach / _cauthored by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (University of Toronto, Canada).
264		1	_bEmerald Publishing Limited,
300			_a1 online resource (264 pages) ; _ccm.
490	1		_aSocietyNow
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aChapter 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'.
520			_aDo 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.
588	0		_aPrint version record.
650		0	_aOlympics _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aOlympics _xEconomic aspects.
650		7	_aSports & Recreation, Olympics & Paralympics. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aOlympic & Paralympic games. _2bicssc
776			_z9781838677763
830		0	_aSocietyNow.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1108/9781838677732
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