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Renowned sportswriter David Goldblatt has been hailed by the Wall Avenue Journal for writing "with the expansive eyeball of a public and cultural critic". In The Games, Goldblatt delivers a magisterial history of the largest sporting event of these all: the Olympics. He says the epic account of the game titles off their reinvention in Athens in 1896 to the present day, chronicling traditional moments of showing off achievement from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Wonder on Snow to Usain Bolt. He will go beyond the medal matters to explore how international conflicts have played out at the Olympics, like the role of the game titles in Fascist Germany and Italy, the Freezing War, and the problems of the postcolonial world for acceptance. He also says the extraordinary account of how women fought to be included on similar terms, how the Paralympics started in the wake of World War II, and how the Olympics reveal changing behaviour to race and ethnicity.
