Stephan Wassong is Full Professor at the German Sport University Cologne, Germany, where he is head of the Institute of Sport History and Director of its Olympic Studies Centre. He has served as a member of the International Olympic Committee`s Olympic Education Commission since 2015.Michael Heine is Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology at Western University, London, Canada. He is a former Director of Western’s International Centre for Olympic Studies.Rob Hess is Adjunct Associate Professor with the College of Sport and Exercise Science and the Institute for Health and Sport at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Introduction Stephan Wassong, Michael Heine, and Rob Hess 1. Academic Return to the Global Sport Community after World War II – The Installation of the Sport University Cologne’s First International Relations Ansgar Molzberger 2. The Diversity of National Sport Development Institutions Till Muller-Schoell 3. The International Olympic Committee’s Tripartite Commission and Its Influence on the Foundation of the Athletes’ Commission Stephan Wassong 4. Sport Aid: Famine Relief, Fun Runs, Fundraising Jörg Krieger 5. Melbourne’s Status as an Olympic City: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives Richard Baka 6. Olympic Commodification and Civic Spaces at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games: A Political Topology of Contestation Michael Heine 7. More than a Miracle: The Korean War, Cold War Politics, and the 1960 Olympic Hockey Tournament MacIntosh Ross and E. K. Nagel 8. The Historical Background to Pakistan’s Participation at the Olympic Games and Its Performances in Field Hockey, 1948–1956 Akhtar Nawaz and Rob Hess