#1 - David C. Young - A Brief History of the Olympic Games


Author or Editor: David C. Young
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2004
Pages: 184

The Olympic Games. Few phrases immediately bring to mind so many images – grandeur, excellence, internationalism, history –maybe even a glimmer of peace. True, a few images are negative. But for many of us the positive images so outweigh them that even real flaws in the games seem almost negligible. A fan of the Olympics since boyhood, for more than twenty years I have spent much of my time doing research on the ancient Olympics and the early years of the modern revival. I therefore welcomed the chance to write this book.

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