Olympism: The Global Vision

Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes scholar, is research fellow at Latrobe University in Melbourne. Sandra Collins is a visiting scholar at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

• Preface: The IOC Olympic Studies Centre Philippe Blanchard The Lausanne Olympic Studies Centre Research Grants Programme John J. MacAloon Prologue: The Story of the Homecoming: IOC weds IJHS Boria Majumdar The Latin American ‘Olympic Explosion’ of the 1920s: Causes and Consequences Cesar Torres Conflicts of 1930s Japanese Olympic Diplomacy in Universalizing the Olympic Movement Sandra Collins ‘A Debt Was Paid Off in Tears’: Science, IOC Politics and the Debate about High Altitude in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics Alison M. Wrynn ‘If You Want to Cry, Cry on the Green Mats of Kôdôkan’: Expressions of Japanese Cultural and National Identity in the Movement to Include Judo into the Olympic Games Andreas Niehaus Revisiting South Africa and the Olympic Movement: The Correspondence of Reginald S. Alexander and the International Olympic Committee, 1961-86 Maureen Margaret Smith When North-South Fight, the Nation is out of Sight: The Politics of Olympic Sport in Postcolonial India Boria Majumdar A Brief Historical Review of Olympic Urbanization Hanwen Liao and Adrian Pitts Epilogue Sandra Collins