Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement

The first book-length study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay, The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement will be a revelation to those who have wondered what organizational challenges, intercultural conflicts, and global-local negotiations compose the backstage of the Olympic Movement’s most popular and deceptively straightforward ritual. _x000D_ This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society