The Athletes’ Voice in History
The Athletes’ Voice in History
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This book combines diverse range of scholarly analyses that seek to understand how recognition of voices of athletes have developed over decades. While the touchstone is primarily the voices of atheles associated with Olympic-related sports, consideration is also given to actions and opinions of athletes expressed in other sporting spheres.
Stephan Wassong is Professor at the German Sport University Cologne, Head of the Institute of Sport History, and Director of its Olympic Studies Centre. He is also Director of the international MA in Olympic Studies and President of the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee. He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Education Commission.
Angela J. Schneider is the Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies and is Professor in Kinesiology at Western University, Canada. Her research interests are philosophy and ethics in sport, Olympic Studies, and women and sport. She is an Olympian, winning a silver medal in rowing for Canada with the women's Coxed Fours at the 1984 Olympics.
Rob Hess is Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Health and Sport, and the College of Sport and Exercise Science, at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia, where he taught sport history for more than two decades. He is also a member of the leadership group of the Olympic Research Network at Victoria University.