Additional References

• How politics hijacks the Olympics (BBC News)
  by Matt Davis (08/11/2004)
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3554354.stm
  A brief, yet concise article on the intrusion of politics in the Olympics on the eve of the Athens Olympiad.
  
  
• The Olympics: a very political game (CNN.com)
  by Joe Havely (07/13/2001)
  http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/07/12/china.games.politics.post/index.html
  "Politics and sport might be uncomfortable bedfellows, but on past experience at least it seems they are inseparable."
  
  
• The Triumph of Hitler: The Berlin Games (The History Place)
  http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/triumph/tr-olympics.htm
  A comprehensive summary of the 1936 Berlin Games that describes the Nazi interest in the Olympics, the treatment of Jewish and African American athletes, and the threat of an American boycott.
  
  
• When Sports and Politics Collided: Redeeming the Olympic Martyrs of 1968
  by Dave Zirin
  http://www.counterpunch.org/zirin09232005.html
  An excerpt from Mr. Zirin's book. The martyrs are the students and protesters massacred on the streets of Mexico City prior to the 1968 Mexico City Olympiad.
  
  
• Politics and the Games (Christian Science Monitor)
  The impact of international politics on the Olympic Games: a historical look through Monitor Page One stories.
  http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/oly2004/docs/oly_politics.html
  Links to 11 articles in PDF (the first article is from 1925 and the last from 1984) including three on the Munich Olympiad. An excellent resource.
  
  
• International Olympic Committee
  http://www.olympic.org/
  
  
• Special Olympics Web Site
  http://www.specialolympics.org/
  
  
• The Paralympics Web Site
  http://www.paralympic.org/
  

Also, see the extensive links section on the Ancient Olympics:
Go to: The Ancient Olympics Links