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Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dag Vidar Hanstad is Associate Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway. He is head of the Department of Cultural and Social Studies and currently leader of a research project on the Youth Olympic Games.

Milena M. Parent is Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Canada, and at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. She is also a lecturer in the MEMOS (Executive Masters in Sport Organisations Management) and Russian International Olympic University programmes.

Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, UK and also Visiting Professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.

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