Jules Boykoff, “Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics” (Verso, 2016) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

Since the birth of the modern Olympics movement in the late nineteenth century, its leaders have attempted to maintain a strict separation of athletics and politics. Former International Olympic Committee president Avery Brundage once stated, “We actively combat the introduction of politics into the Olympic movement.” But this attempt to...
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