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Athletics At The Summer Olympic Games

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  • Cristiana Lucretia POP

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Athletics is the sport of the most natural human movements: running, walking, jumping and throwing and it accompanied the Olympic Games on its 120 years journey from their first beginning. Athletics hallmarked Olympics evolution with memorable moments, exceptional records, great personalities and the triumph of talent and fair play. The paper is a survey of relevant references and data related with athletic events in the summer Olympics program. Further I highlighted the important moments in athletics and modern Olympics history since the first edition until to the last held in Brazil. On this attempt I draw attention on the noting implications of political interference in the Olympics. A reverence has been made to those athletes either men and women representing with honor East European countries in major sporting events over the 20th century. Much have changed since 1896, not only in number of events, athletes, competition and prizes, but in philosophy, sport sciences, ethics and professional approach as well.

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  • Cristiana Lucretia POP, 2016. "Athletics At The Summer Olympic Games," Marathon, Department of Pshisycal Education and Sport, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 8(2), pages 244-253, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:rom:marath:v:8:y:2016:i:2:p:244-253
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    1. Cristiana Lucretia POP, 2014. "Symbol And Ritual In Olympic Arena," Marathon, Department of Pshisycal Education and Sport, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania, vol. 6(2), pages 190-194, December.
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    1. Cristiana Lucretia POP, 2017. "Olympic Games in Time of Cold War," Book chapters-LUMEN Proceedings, in: Camelia IGNATESCU & Antonio SANDU & Tomita CIULEI (ed.), Rethinking Social Action. Core Values in Practice, edition 1, volume 1, chapter 57, pages 623-632, Editura Lumen.

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