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- Ban of Russian Olympic Team: Cold War at its "Best"!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The West is using both old and new tactics to demonize and discredit all of its opponents, in what is becoming a new Cold War.
- The Biased Report that led to Banning Russians at the Olympics
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Canadian lawyer Richard Mclaren's report infuenced the World Anti-Doping Agency to call for the banning of all Russian athletes from the Rio Games.
- Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Crimea, Georgia and the New Olympic Sport: Russia Bashing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Going for Gold: A History of Olympic Controversies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
While the Olympics serve to contribute to mutual understanding and finding commonality in difference, from its inception as a religious festival in ancient Greece to the huge celebrations in the twenty-first century seen on television by billions of people, it has been quite rare for the Games to pass without controversy.
- Letter to the World Anti Doping Agency and International Olympic Committee
Regarding the McLaren Report and the Politicization of Doping in Sports
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Russian track and field athletes, plus the entire Paralympics team, were banned from the Rio Games last summer. This was based on the first McLaren report commissioned by the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA).
- Lockdown London
The Olympics will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of security forces since the second world war
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The projected expense of security at the upcoming London Olympic Games is $867m -- part of the booming 'security industry'.
- Nazi Olympics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Describes the Nazification of sports in Germany in the 1930s and its broader context.
- Olympic torch stokes warm pride and fiery protest among aboriginals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Differing opinions between aboriginal groups towards the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and Torch Relay.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 13, 2016
Sports and Politics
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Sports and politics have always been intertwined, though perhaps never as much so as in the current era. In the modern sports era, survival and success depend largely on the favour of corporations, whose power to provide or withhold funding and sponsorships now shape every aspect of sport, including athletes' incomes and lifestyles. It is now difficult to remember that only a few decades ago, corporate logos were strictly forbidden at Olympic events, while athletes were prohibited from accepting any kind of payment for their involvement in sports. The corporate conquest of sports closely parallels the corporate colonization of nearly all aspects of modern life. Accompanying this in recent years has been the increasing injection of militaristic content into sports spectacles. In Canada, hockey games are now commonly preceded by rituals honouring militarism. In the United States, similar spectacles have been staged for years. In this issue, we feature resources which remind us that resistance to the commercialization, corporatization, and militarization of sports is also part of our heritage.
- Power Games: A Political History of the Olympic Games
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
- Protection of Journalists' Sources and Materials
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Advice offered by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to all journalists who are covering the Olympic Games which are due to start in London on 27 July 2012.
- Russia misses out while former drug cheats take their place in Rio
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
While Russia’s track and field team, including athletes with no doping history, sit out the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, there's a host of athletes who will be allowed to compete in Brazil despite having had their own issues with banned substances. In addition to International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) decision to ban entire Russian track and field team from Rio Olympics (with only one exclusion – the long-jumper Darya Klishina, who lives and trains in USA), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) stated that Russian athletes with any doping history will not be allowed to compete in Rio, even if they have served a penalty. Here's a look at some of the drug-tainted athletes from other countries, who meanwhile will be able to take their place in Rio.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Athletic Therapists Association
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes a new member, Canadian Athletic Therapists Association (CATA).
- Sports and Politics
Introduction to the August 13, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Sports in general, and the Olympics in particular, have never been free of politics. Allegations of bribery and cheating had already been part of the Olympics for centuries before that noteworthy day in 67 AD when the judges proclaimed the Emperor Nero winner of the Olympic chariot race even though he had been thrown from his chariot and failed to complete the race.
- University of Winnipeg
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Wilfrid Laurier University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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