The Great Olympic Swindle: When the world wanted its games back - Couverture rigide

Jennings, Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0684866773 ISBN 13 : 9780684866772

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

The final book in Andrew Jennings' Olympic investigative trilogy. It reveals how crooked sports leaders, their sponsors, gangsters and dope peddlers conspired to dupe the public, concealing a cesspool of corruption, fraud and organized crime.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the final book in Andrew Jenning's Olympic investigative trilogy. It reveals the story of how crooked sports leaders, their sponsors, gangsters, and dope peddlers pulled together to take the world for a ride. It tells the astonishing story of how the IOC fooled the world by spending millions of dollars on spin doctors; it names the Olympic crooks and profiteers untouched by the clean-up investigations: still welcome in the Olympic club are members accused of genocide, environmental destruction, illicit arms dealing, million dollar corruption, theft, sexual harassment and drug scandal cover-ups; it documents organised crime's involvement: gangsters from the post-Soviet republics have moved into Olympic sport. This is a fascinating and entertaining book: Hunter S. Thompson meets Nick Hornby.

Revue de presse

Well before the International Olympic Committee became easy to mock for its excesses and before the investigation of the Salt
Lake City bribery scandal uncovered internal corruption,
Andrew Jennings symbolized a one-man, cheeky and
obsessive opposition.
New York Times
"Swindle" is the best of Mr. Jennings' three books about hypocrisy and greed in the IOC...almost every word he has written has now been proved to be true. What's impressive is the great detail and vast volume of documentary evidence that Mr. Jennings uses to hammer home his claims. WALL STREET JOURNAL

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684866773
• ISBN 13: 9780684866772
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible