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The Olympic Winter Games at 100 : Challenges, Complexities, and Legacies - Heather L. Dichter

The Olympic Winter Games at 100

Challenges, Complexities, and Legacies

By: Heather L. Dichter (Editor), Sarah Teetzel (Editor)

Paperback | 6 May 2025 | Edition Number 1

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2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games.

This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century of the Olympic Winter Games.  Grounded in sport history, the chapters in this volume draw on the disciplines of cultural history, diplomatic history, global history, environmental history, and media history to analyze the continued allure of the Winter Olympics, a century after its origin, and in light of the sustained and significant problems facing the Olympic movement. Host cities' efforts to create positive and lasting legacies are analyzed to highlight the challenges and complexities that have plagued the Olympic movement throughout the last century. 

The Olympic Winter Games at 100 is essential reading for any researcher, advanced student or scholar with an interest in Olympic Studies, sports development, sport policy and history. The chapters in this book were published as two special issues in The International Journal of the History of Sport but now with a revised introduction and conclusion.

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