Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement

by Buchanan, Ian; Mallon, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780810830622
• ISBN10: 0810830620
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-12-01
• Publisher: Scarecrow Pr

Summary

Offers a multitude of hard-to-find facts on the important people, events, and organizations involved in the Olympic movement.

Author Biography

Ian Buchanan has now retired from a business career in the Far East, where he spent many years as a director of a Reinsurance Company and compiled the first authoritative history of the Far Eastern and Asian Games Bill Mallon, a former professional golfer, is an orthopaedic surgeon whose lifelong interest in the Olympic Games became a second career while he was in medical school at Duke University

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Richard Pound
Editor's Foreword	xi
Jon Woronoff
Authors' Preface	xiii
Abbreviations and Acronyms Used	xv
Chronology of the Olympic Movement	xxiii
The Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games	xxxv
Introduction to the Olympic Movement	1	(7)
Dictionary of the Olympic Movement	8	(181)
Bibliography	189	(19)
Appendix I: Presidents of the IOC	208	(1)
Appendix II: The Games of the Olympiads	209	(1)
Appendix III: The Olympic Winter Games	210	(1)
Appendix IV: Members of the IOC	211	(10)
Appendix V: Awards of the IOC	221	(5)
Appendix VI: Final Olympic Torch Bearers	226	(2)
Appendix VII: Speakers of the Olympic Oath	228	(2)
Appendix VIII: Official Openings of the Olympic Games	230	(2)
Appendix IX: Most Olympic Medals: Summer, Men	232	(2)
Appendix X: Most Olympic Medals: Summer, Women	234	(1)
Appendix XI: Most Olympic Gold Medals: Summer, Men	235	(1)
Appendix XII: Most Olympic Gold Medals: Summer, Women	236	(1)
Appendix XIII: Most Olympic Medals: Winter, Men	237	(1)
Appendix XIV: Most Olympic Medals: Winter, Women	238	(1)
Appendix XV: Most Olympic Gold Medals: Winter, Men	239	(1)
Appendix XVI: Most Olympic Gold Medals: Winter, Women	240	(1)
Appendix XVII: Positive Drug Tests at the Olympic Games	241	(3)
Appendix XVIII: Attempts at Olympic Revival Prior to 1896	244	(3)
About the Authors	247