Inside the Olympic Industry, Power, Politics and Activism
Book Review | Olympics Studies
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, 2000, State University of New York Press, ISBN pbk 0 7914 4756 1.
Very informative over a wide range of issues contained in its title. Difficult to read though.
It is like walking straight into a long running family fight. Full of a vast range of characters and passing references to many previous spats. Best taken in by reading the mercifully supplied conclusions at the end of each chapter first then choosing where you want to pitch into it for the detail of that part of the drama.
Amazon were flogging it off cheap.
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Submitted by Martin Slavin on Sat, 28/10/2006 - 17:19.
The conclusions
Submitted by Martin Slavin on Thu, 23/11/2006 - 00:22.
Thanks for your reply Helen. I have amended my review. We couldn't have got this far without your pioneering work.
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Submitted by Helen Lenskyj (not verified) on Tue, 15/07/2008 - 23:02.
Hello again, thanks for that.
The third book in the series is now available -
see http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61640
In solidarity, Helen
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Thanks, Martin, for your
Thanks, Martin, for your positive comments on the book. Just for the record, there was no "understanding editor" prompting me to write conclusions to chapters. Having written 8 books, I managed to work this out all by myself. However, I take your point that a book published by a university press and written by an academic might not be as readable as I had hoped it would be, and will take that into account while writing the third in the series, titled (for now) Olympic Industry Resistance.
In solidarity,
Helen