Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games – International Sport`s Cold War Battle with…

Bidding for the 1968 Olympic GamesInternational Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO\nAuthor(s): Heather L. Dichter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625345950, 978-1625345950\nSynopsis\nDuring the Cold War, political tensions associated with the division of Germany came to influence the world of competitive sport. In the 1950s, West Germany and its NATO allies refused to recognize the communist East German state and barred its national teams from sporting competitions. The construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961 further exacerbated these pressures, with East German teams denied travel to several world championships. These tensions would only intensify in the run-up to the 1968 Olympics.\n\nIn Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games, Heather L. Dichter considers how NATO and its member states used sport as a diplomatic arena during the height of the Cold War, and how international sport r.