The Best Olympics Ever?: Social Impacts of Sydney 2000

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.

Author: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 07/18/2002
Pages: 262
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.04w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780791454749

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2003 pg. 1019

About the Author
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism, also published by SUNY Press; Women, Sport, and Physical Activity: Selected Research Themes; and Out of Bounds: Women, Sport, and Sexuality.

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