یادداشتهای مربوط به کتابنامه ، واژه نامه و نمایه های داخل اثر
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-186) and index.
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Book Cover; Half-Title; Series-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 From Coubertin's dream to high-performance sport: The shifting dynamics of Olympic sport; 2 Steroids: Nazi propaganda, cold war fears, and "androgenized" women; 3 "Sport," German traditions, and the development of "training"; 4 From Stalingrad to Helsinki: The development of German sport systems; 5 "Something had altered in the faces of the pigs ... ": Converging sport systems in the GDR and FRG.
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Explores the use of drugs and other performance-enhancing practices in sport, tracing the development of the situation through its socio-political history. This work presents a critique of the use of athletes as representatives of political regimes, and the constant striving for medals that has altered the ethos of the Olympic Games.