Olympia – The Games as a stage for sport and politics
The biggest sporting event in the world is all about meters and seconds, victories and defeats. And: about politics. For although the Olympic Games wanted to be apolitical, they never were.
Peter Filzmaier, bestselling author, sports fan and Austria’s best-known political scientist, talks about the fascination of the Olympics, about scenes that made sports history and about those that took place behind the scenes.
It’s about dirty bed stories, praying goatherds and alleged sex spies, but also about propaganda, nationalism, racism and sexism, about doping, commercialization and corruption, about boycotts, counter-boycotts and the power of images at the Summer and Winter Games.
Spiced up with surprising anecdotes, Peter Filzmaier tells a captivating story of the Olympic Games in his new book: Contemporary history with a difference.
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