What are the Summer Olympics?
An overview of the Summer Olympics from Grecian times through 2012.
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New York, N.Y. :
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- What are the Summer Olympics?
- The ancient Games, 776 BC-AD 393
- The modern Games begin: late 1800s
- The Olympics grow: the early 1900s
- New Games: news stars, the 1920s
- Politics enter the Games: the 1930s
- After the war: late 1940s and 1950s
- Time for change: the 1960s
- Munich and Montreal: the 1970s
- Dives and drugs: the 1980s
- Dreams lost and found: the 1990s
- A new century: the 2000s
- At the close
- Movies about the Olympics
- Timelines.
