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For decades, amateurism defined the ideals undergirding the Olympic movement. No more. Today's Games present athletes who enjoy open corporate sponsorship and unabashedly compete for lucrative commercial endorsements.<br> <br> Matthew P. Llewellyn and John Gleaves analyze how this astonishing transformation took place. Drawing on Olympic archives and a wealth of research across media, the authors examine how an elite--white, wealthy, often Anglo-Saxon--controlled and shaped an enormously powerfu
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- Author
- Matthew P. Llewellyn, John Gleaves
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780252081842
- Category
- sports
- Subjects
- Sports, Anthropology, World
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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