The Best Olympics Ever?, livre ebook

Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.Uses the Sydney Olympics as a prism through which to explore recent Olympic scandals, media coverage, reform efforts, and controversies.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 Lenskyj discloses what the Sydney 2000 Olympic industry suppressed: the real costs and impacts.Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Websites Introduction 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 Conclusion Appendix References Index