David Horspool

A five-ring fiasco

From their first revival in 1896, the Games have been dogged by racism, cheating and other breathtaking scandals, according to two new books by Jules Boykoff and David Goldblatt

  • The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by

    David Goldblatt

    Pan Macmillan, pp. 516

  • Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

    Jules Boykoff

    Verso, pp. 216

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