Description: List of Illustrations List of Tables INTRODUCTION The Games at the Millennium by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith PART ONE: Cultural Difference and "Elite" Sports 1. The Olympics in Retrospect: Winners, Losers, Racism, and the Olympic Ideal by Cynthia Nadalin 2. Honor Restored: Jim Thorpe's Olympic Medals by Trace A. DeMeyer 3. Jewish Athletes and the "Nazi Olympics" by Allen Guttmann, Heather Kestner, and George Eisen 4. Racing with Race at the Olympics: From Negro to Black to African American Athlete by C. Keith Harrison 5. "We Showed the World the Nordic Way": Skiing, Norwegians, and the Winter Olympic Games in the 1920s by E. John B. Allen PART TWO: Masculinities/Femininities/Sexualities 6. Men of the Game by Toby Miller 7. The Girls of Summer: Social Contexts for the "Year of the Woman" at the '96 Olympics by Leslie Heywood 8. Women's Sports: Coming of Age in the Third Millennium by Donna A. Lopiano 9. One Chromosome Too Many? by Cheryl L. Cole 10. The Gay Games: Creating Our Own Sports Culture by Vikki Krane and Jennifer Waldron PART THREE: The Olympics: Drama, Spectacle, Media 11. Carrying the Torch for Whom? Symbolic Power and Olympic Ceremony by Alan Tomlinson 12. Whose Ceremony Is It Anyway? Indigenous and Olympic Interests in the Festival of the Dreaming by Lisa Meekison 13. Who's Sorry How? Drugs, Sports, and the Media towards 2000 by Andrea Mitchell and Helen Yeates 14. The Olympics of the Everyday by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith 15. Terrorism, "Killing Events," and Their Audience: Fear of Crime at the 2000 Olympics by John Tulloch PART FOUR: Politics at the Games 16. The Olympic Branding of Aborigines: The 2000 Olympic Games and Australia's Indigenous Peoples by Darren J. Godwell 17. Bidding for the Olympics: Sit Selection and Sydney 2000 by Ian Jobling 18. Sports for All? The Politics of Funding, Nationalism, and the Quest for Gold by Lynn Embrey References Notes on Contributors Index

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