Description:
The Youth Olympic Games is essential reading for any researcher, advanced student or policy maker with an interest in Olympic Studies, sports development, sport policy, youth sport or event management.
It is the first book to be published on the Youth Olympic Games. It critically examines the origins of the Games and the motives of the Games organisers, as well as the organisation and management of the Games and their wider impact and significance.
Review Quotes:
"The book is the only one to my knowledge takes hold on the Olympic movement's latest spin-off...
As reference material for the Olympic interested is therefore a natural addition to the book collection." - Bjorn Sandahl (2015) Olympic outgrowth under the microscope - the Olympic Youth Games, 'idrottsforum.org' idrottsforum.org/sanbjo_hanstadetal151007/#