Heritage and the Olympics : People, Place and Performance (Hardcover)

1. Examining the Olympics: heritage, identity and performance  2. London’s Olympic waterscape: capturing transition  3. The Olympics, amateurism and Britain’s coaching heritage  4. Cathy Freeman and Australia’s Indigenous heritage: a new beginning for an old nation at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games  5. The marginalisation of Paralympic heritage  6. Non-events and their legacies: Parisian heritage and the Olympics that never were  7. Olympic legacy and cultural tourism: exploring the facets of Athens’ Olympic heritage  8. Conclusion