Stephen Wagg is Reader in Sport and Society at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK.David L. Andrews is Associate Professor in Sport, Commerce and Culture at the University of Maryland, USA.

• Introduction 1. Totalitarian Regimes and Cold War Sport: Steroid ‘Übermenschen’ and ‘Ball Bearing Females’ 2. Verbal Gymnastics: The Soviet Sports Administration and the Decision to Enter the Olympic Games, 1947-1952 3. Cold War Expatriot Sport: Symbolic Resistance - and International Response - in Hungarian Water Polo at the Melbourne Olympics, 1956 4. Cold War Football: British-European Encounters in the 1940s and 50s 5. ‘Oscillating Antagonism’: Soviet-British Athletics Relations, 1945-1960 6. ‘If You Want the Girl Next Door….’ Olympic Sport and the Popular Press in Early Cold War Britain 7. The ‘Muscle Gap’: Physical Education and U.S. Fears of a Depleted Masculinity 1954-63 8. Good Versus Evil? Drugs, Sport and the Cold War 9. The Cold War and the (Re) Articulation of Canadian National Identity: The 1972 Canada-USSR Summit Series 10. ‘One Day When the Yankees….’ Cuban Baseball, the United States and the Cold War 11. Playing the ‘Race Card’: US Foreign Policy and the Integration of Sports 12. ‘Miraculous’ Masculinity Meets Militarization: Narrating the 1980 USSR-US Men’s Olympic Ice Hockey Match and Cold War Politics 13. The Soviet Union and the Olympic Games of 1980 and 1984: Explaining the Boycott to their Own People 14. ‘Sport and Politics Don’t Mix’. China's Relationship with the IOC during the Cold War 15. Sport After the Cold War: Implications for Russia and Eastern Europe 16. Performing America’s Past: Cold War Fantasies in a Perpetual State of War 17. ‘Yankee Go Home’: Sport and Anti-Americanism in South Korea

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