Introduction / Gerald P. Schaus -- Part I. The Olympics in antiquity -- The ancient Olympic games through the centuries / Nigel B. Crowther -- Origins. Politics and the Bronze Age origins of Olympic practices / Senta C. German -- Pindar, Heracles the Idaean Dactyl, and the foundation of the Olympic games / Thomas K. Hubbard -- The first Olympic games / Max Nelson -- The transformation of athletics in sixth-century Greece / Paul Christesen -- Ideals and losers. The ancient Olympics and their ideals / Nigel B. Crowther -- Olympic losers : why athletes who did not win at Olympia are remembered / Victor Matthews -- Details of the festival. Judges and judging at the ancient Olympic games / David Gilman Romano -- Heroic and athletic sortition at ancient Olympia / Aileen Ajootian -- Fabulous females and ancient Olympia / Donald G. Kyle -- The Halma : a running or standing jump? / Hugh M. Lee -- Another view of Olympia. Connections between Olympia and Stymphalus / Gerald P. Schaus -- Commemorative cash : the coins of the ancient and modern Olympics / Robert Weir -- Part II. The modern Olympics -- The Olympic games in modern times / Robert K. Barney -- The Olympics before World War II. Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic champion and Uncle Sam's adopted son : the cultural context of a Hawaiian conqueror / Jim Nendel -- Carl Diem's inspiration for the torch relay? Jan Wils, Amsterdam 1928, and the origin of the Olympic flame / Robert K. Barney and Anthony Th. Bijkerk -- The great progression : a content analysis of the Lake Placid News and the Los Angeles Times' treatment of the 1932 Olympics / Jonathan Paul -- The Olympics after World War II. Womanizing Olympic athletes : policy and practice during the Avery Brundage era / Kevin B. Wamsley -- The bridge to change : the 1976 Montreal Olympic games, South African apartheid policy, and the Olympic boycott paradigm / Courtney W. Mason.

Splitting hairs : the struggle between the Canadian Federal government and the Organizing Committee of the 1976 Torontolympiad concerning South African participation / David A. Greig -- Juan Antonio Samaranch's score sheet : revenue generation and the Olympic Movement, 1980-2002 / Stephen R. Wenn and Scott G. Martyn -- The future of the Olympic games. Olympic ideals : pragmatic method and the future of the games / Tim Elcombe -- "To construct a better and more peaceful world" or "War minus the shooting?" : the Olympic Movement's second century / Mark Dyreson -- Glossary of terms.