Athletes’ Voice in History

Stephan Wassong is Professor at the German Sport University Cologne, Head of the Institute of Sport History, and Director of its Olympic Studies Centre. He is also Director of the international MA in Olympic Studies and President of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee. He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Education Commission.Angela J. Schneider is the Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies and is Professor in Kinesiology at Western University, Canada. Her research interests are philosophy and ethics in sport, Olympic Studies, and women and sport. She is an Olympian, winning a silver medal in rowing for Canada with the women's Coxed Fours at the 1984 Olympics.Rob Hess is Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Health and Sport, and the College of Sport and Exercise Science, at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, where he taught sport history for more than two decades. He is also a member of the leadership group of the Olympic Research Network at Victoria University.

• 1. Introduction: The Voice of the Athlete in History 2. The Olympic Oath and So Much More: A Biographical Interpretive Analysis of the Life of Victor Boin, 1886–1974 3. ‘If the IOC Finds Out About This, All of You Will Be Declared Professionals’: Professionalization of Finnish Track Athletes from the 1960s to 1980s 4. Non-Racial Sport in South Africa: A Documentary Analysis of the Struggle for International Recognition, 1946-1971 5. ‘An Honour, Rather than a Disgrace’: Song Koon Poh, Apartheid Rugby, Tokkie’s Dragons and the Politics of Dissent and Confession 6. Athletes in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945–1992 7. The Athletes’ Voice and a Feminist Ethics of Care: The Russian Doping Scandal at the 2016 Olympic Games 8. The Membership Composition of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee: Between Appointments and Elections, 1981–2000 9. The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom