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PRIOR TO THE 2002 Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, ten highly regarded Olympic historians presented a series of lectures on the politics, history, and controversies surrounding the winter games. Those lectures are collected in "The Winter Olympics, offering readers fascinating insights into issues of gender, amateurism, commercialism, ceremony, and much more over the one hundred years of Winter Olympic's history. It also includes a survey of the Salt Lake Winter Games and the role of the LDS Church in those Games. The only volume available that explores the winter games as a whole, "The Winter Olympics is invaluable reading for understanding the movement's roots as well as the contemporary issues surrounding the Games.Gerlach, Larry R. is the author of 'Winter Olympics From Chamonix to Salt Lake', published 2004 under ISBN 9780874807783 and ISBN 0874807786.
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