SPORTS | Striving for excellence
16 April 2008
Information Resources on the Olympic Games
Further resources online, in periodicals and in books are summarized
Resources
INTERNET RESOURCES
Beijing Olympics
The Official Website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
http://en.beijing2008.cn/
Beijing Paralympic Games
http://en.beijing2008.cn/paralympic/
Official Website of the Olympic Movement
http://www.olympic.org
Olympic Games History: http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/index_uk.asp
U.S. Department of Energy
The United States is engaged with China is a variety of bilateral and multilateral projects to advance clean and efficient energy use.
http://www.energy.gov/news/5080.htm
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been working with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games to assist the city in reaching its goal to have healthy air for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
http://www.epa.gov/international/airandclimate/byregion/chinaair.html
U.S. Olympic Committee
http://www.usoc.org
U.S. Olympic Movement/Team USA
http://www.usolympicteam.com/19116_18922.htm
ATHLETES
Bart Conner
Official site: http://www.bartandnadia.com/biobart.html
Iztok Cop
http://www.iztokcop.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=33
Janet Evans
Official site: http://www.janetevans.com/index2.html
Rulon Gardner
Official site: http://www.rulongardner.com/charity.html
Tab Ramos
Official site: http://tabramos.com/
Dawn Staley
http://www.dawnstaley5.com
Gabriela Szabo
http://www.gabiszabo.com/
Bibliography
BOOKS
Billings, Andrew C. Olympic Media: Inside the Biggest Show on Television. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.
Brownell, Susan. Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.
Findling, John E. and Kimberly D. Pelle, eds. Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement. Rev. and expanded ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004.
Gold, John R. and Margaret M. Gold, eds. Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896-2012. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Jarvie, Grant, Dong, Jhy Hwang and Mel Brennan. Sport, Revolution and the Beijing Olympics. New York, NY: Berg, 2008.
Macy, Sue. Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics. Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2004.
Preuss, Holger. The Economics of Staging the Olympics: A Comparison of the Games, 1972-2008. Cheltenham, UK; Northampton , MA: E. Elgar, 2004.
Price, Monroe E. and Daniel Dayan, eds. Owning the Olympics: Narratives of the New China. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2008.
United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China. The Beijing Olympics and Human Rights: Roundtable before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, November 18, 2002. Washington: U.S. GPO: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O. [Congressional Sales Office], 2003.
PDF version: http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_house_hearings&docid=f:83979.pdf
FOR YOUNG READERS
Fischer, David. The Encyclopedia of the Summer Olympics. New York: F. Watts, 2003.
Gifford, Clive. Summer Olympics: The Definitive Guide to the World’s Greatest Sports Celebration. Boston, MA: Kingfisher, 2004.
Girginov, Vassil and Jim Parry. The Olympic Games Explained: A Student Guide to the Evolution of the Modern Olympic Games. London; New York: Routledge, 2005.
Hasday, Judy L. Extraordinary Women Athletes. New York, NY: Children’s Press, 2000.
Hofstetter, Adam B. Olympic Basketball. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2007.
Hofstetter, Adam B. Olympic Gymnastics. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 2007.
Kehm, Greg. Olympic Swimming and Diving. New York: Rosen Central, 2007.
Middleton, Haydn. Great Olympic Moments. Rev. and updated. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2008.
BOOKS BY OLYMPIANS
Conner, Bart. Winning the Gold; with Paul Ziert. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1985.
Evans, Janet. Janet Evans’ Total Swimming. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2007.
Contents: http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008514.html
Gardner, Rulon. Never Stop Pushing: [My Life From a Wyoming Farm to the Olympic Medals Stand]; with Bob Schaller. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005.
FILMOGRAPHY
Feature Films
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Director: Hugh Hudson
Running time: 124 minutes
Synopsis: In 1924, Britain’s finest athletes begin their quest for glory in the Olympic Games. Their success will win honor for their nation, but for two champion runners, the honor at stake is personal and the challenge they face is a challenge from within. This is the true story of Harold Abrahams, Eric Liddell, and the dedicated team of competitors who brought Britain one of her most legendary victories in international sports.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082158/
Munich (2005)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Running time: 164 minutes
Synopsis: The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists. This film deals with these events, and the Black September aftermath, involving five men designated to eliminate those responsible.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408306/
Running Brave (1983)
Directors: D.S. Everett, Donald Shebib
Running time: 106 minutes
Synopsis: The story of Billy Mills the American Indian that came from obscurity, to win the 10,000 meter long distance foot race in the Tokyo Olympics.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086220/
Walk Don’t Run (1966)
Director: Charles Walters
Running time: 114 minutes
Synopsis: During the housing shortage of the 1964 Toyko Summer Olympics, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061170/
Without Limits (1998)
Director: Robert Towne
Running time: 117 minutes
Synopsis: The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to Oregon University where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119934/
Documentaries
Olympic Century (2004)
Running time: 150 minutes
Synopsis: Two DVD set; third is CD of national anthems. Superb footage of champion athletes in action, with insightful interviews and historical footage and photographs, dating to the birth of the modern Olympic movement in 1896.
available on DVD only
16 Days of Glory (1986)
Director: Bud Greenspan.
Running time: 145 minutes
Synopsis: Photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told "from the inside" through the lives of the participants, the words of David Perry, and the singing voice of Placido Domingo.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090559/
Tokyo Olympiad [Tōkyō Orinpikku] (1965)
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Variant Title: Tokyo Olympic
Running time: 170 minutes; (1984 reissue) / USA 93 min
Synopsis: An epic study of athletes struggling to excel against their own bodies and against each other. Kon Ichikawa used 164 cameramen and over 100 cameras to show the humanity of the competitors--the tears of the Japanese women volleyball champions, the bellow of the hammer throwers, the pain of the collapsed marathon runner and the solitude of the loser, finishing his lap, picking up his sweats and leaving the field.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059817/
