Selling The Five Rings: The IOC and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism by Robert K. Barney
Selling The Five Rings: The IOC and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism

Robert K. Barney

Selling The Five Rings: The IOC and the Rise of Olympic Commercialism

Robert K. Barney with Stephen Wenn, Scott G. Martyn

400 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history sports informative medium-paced
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The original scheme for the modern Olympic Games was hatched at an international sports conference at the Sorbonne in June 1894. At the time, few provisions were made for the financial underwriting of the project--providence and the beneficence of...

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