By Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Varda Burstyn
In a startling exposé of the Olympic undefined, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is going past the media hype of overseas goodwill and lively festival to discover a darker facet of the worldwide video games. She studies at the pre- and post-Olympic affects from fresh host towns, bribery investigations and their results, grassroots resistance activities, and the position of the mass media within the controversy. A hugely obtainable booklet a few advanced topic that touches the hearts of activities lovers in every single place, contained in the Olympic is a must-read, behind-the-scenes examine the politics surrounding the alternative of Sydney, Australia as host urban for the 2000 summer season Olympic video games.
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Some Barcelona fans almost miss it. They’re busy celebrating Messi’s goal. THERE HAVE BEEN 225 CLÁSICOS IN ALL, with Real Madrid winning ninety and Barcelona eighty-seven. The numbers rack up quickly: October 2012 was the thirteenth clásico in less than two years, such is the dominance of these two sides, and by the end of the season there would be three more of them. It all began at the Madrid Hippodrome on May 13, 1902, just a few hundred yards south of the Santiago Bernabéu. Soccer was far from the mass sport it is now.
Sadly, Antoni Ramallets and Josep Seguer passed away soon after this book was first published. Thanks are also due to the protagonists who spoke to me for this book but preferred not to be named and the many others who have enriched the story. Other interviews conducted over the years with players like Oleguer Presas, Raúl, Paco Pavón, Paco Gento, and David Beckham have also been drawn upon. As well as material from state archives, private papers, and the clubs, I’ve naturally leaned on the expertise and the work of reporters, writers, broadcasters, and historians and drawn on the accounts of protagonists.
Julio César Benítez is here too. He died of food poisoning in 1968, just three days before Barcelona faced Madrid. Today is the morning after Barcelona faced Madrid, forty-four years later. It is quiet now, empty, and the sun is shining. “You should have seen it yesterday,” says the woman who works here, helping to guide people through the labyrinth, past the roses on the Kubala family plot and the pennants, pictures, and ribbons in Catalan red and yellow and Barcelona blue and claret dotted around the cemetery.