• The best books on The Dark Side of the Olympics - The Politics of the Olympic Games by Richard Espy
  • The best books on The Dark Side of the Olympics - Five Ring Circus: Money, Power, and Politics at the Olympic Games by Alan Tomlinson and Garry Whannel
  • The best books on The Dark Side of the Olympics - The Lords of the Rings: Power, Money, and Drugs in the Modern Olympics by Vyv Simson and Andrew Jennings
  • The best books on The Dark Side of the Olympics - Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics, and Activism by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj
  • The best books on The Dark Side of the Olympics - Hosting the Olympic Games: the Real Costs for Cities by John Rennie Short

The best books on The Dark Side of the Olympics, recommended by Helen J Lenskyj

The Olympics are big business—but the extent to which they benefit their host cities is increasingly called into question. They’ve also long been enmired in political controversy. Here Helen J Lenskyj, the academic and anti-Olympics activist, discusses the malign influence of big business, and the inseparability of sport and politics, as she chooses her best books on the bad side of the Olympics.