Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations x
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction xvii
6. Abbreviations xxv
7. The Olympics In Antiquity
8. An Overview 3
9. Origins 15
10. Pindar, Heracles the Idaean Dactyl, and the Foundation of the Olympic Games 27
11. The First Olympic Games 47
12. The Transformation of Athletics in Sixth-Century Greece 59
13. Ideals and Losers 69
14. Olympic Losers: Why Athletes Who Did Not Win at Olympia Are Remembered 81
15. Details of the Festival 95
16. Heroic and Athletic Sortition at Ancient Olympia 115
17. Fabulous Females and Ancient Olympia 131
18. The Halma: A Running or Standing Jump? 153
19. Another view of Olympia 167
20. Commemorative Cash: The Coins of the Ancient and Modern Olympics 179
21. Works Cited In Part I 193
22. The Modern Olympics
23. An Overview 221
24. The Olympics Before World War II 243
25. Carl Diem’s Inspiration for the Torch Relay? Jan Wils, Amsterdam 1928, and the Origin of the Olympic Flame 253
26. The Great Progression: A Content Analysis of the Lake Placid News and the Los Angeles Times’ Treatment of the 1932 Olympics 261
27. The Olympics After World War II 273
28. The Bridge to Change: The 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, South African Apartheid Policy, and the Olympic Boycott Paradigm 283
29. Splitting Hairs: The Struggle between the Canadian Federal Government and the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Torontolympiad concerning South African Participation 297
30. Juan Antonio Samaranch’s Score Sheet: Revenue Generation and the Olympic Movement, 1980–2001 309
31. The Future of the Olympic Games 325
32. “To Construct a Better and More Peaceful World” or “War Minus the Shooting”?: The Olympic Movement’s Second Century 335
33. Works Cited in Part II 351
34. Glossary of Terms 359
35. Index 363