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Title
International security and the Olympic Games, 1972-2020 / Austin Duckworth.
ISBN
9783031051333 (electronic bk.)
3031051335 (electronic bk.)
3031051327
9783031051326
Imprint
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (212 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-05133-3 doi
Call Number
GV721.5
Dewey Decimal Classification
796.4809
Summary
Drawing on new archival documents and interviews, this book demonstrates the evolving role of international politics in Olympic security planning. Olympic security concerns changed forever following the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committees (IOC) choice to ignore security after the attack in Munich left individual Olympic Games Organizing Committees to organize, fund, and provide security for the major international event. Future Olympic hosts planned security amidst increasing numbers of international terrorist attacks, and with the Cold War in full swing. For some Olympic hosts, Olympic security now represented their nations largest ever military operations. By the time the IOC made security more of a priority in the early 1980s, the trends in Olympic security were set for the future. Austin Duckworth is an independent scholar who most recently worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark. He completed his Ph. D. at the University of Texas at Austin, USA in Physical Culture and Sports Studies. His research interests are international relations, security, and sport.
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Includes index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 7, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in sport and politics.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Growth of the Olympics as International Spectacle
Chapter 3: Passing the Torch, 1972-1980
Chapter 4: International Liaison and the 1984 Olympic Games
Chapter 5: Decisive Political Ways: The 1988 Seoul Olympic Games
Chapter 6: A most spectacular example of cross-border collaboration: Albertville and Barcelona 1992
Chapter 7: Atlanta Attacked: the Centennial Park Bombing
Chapter 8: The Post-2000 Olympic Games
Chapter 9: Technology, Pandemics, and the Future of Olympic Security
Chapter 10: Conclusion.
