Project 2014 Sochi - the'' eBook
Imagine organize the Winter Olympics in the sea. A warm sea, not an ocean caressing the polar circle. On whose shores the winter fan well over ten degrees, including a palm tree and a bathhouse [...].
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Then imagine to organize the Olympic Games in [...] a region where peoples and religions collide, with strong and unresolved tensions that feed gangs, terrorism and latent conflicts. Well, this conjunction - far from astral - occurred for the XXII Olympic Winter Games. The city is Sochi, Russia. The region is the Caucasus. "
Thus began Russia Sochi 2014, a book dedicated to the intertwining between sport and geopolitics in view of the upcoming Olympic Winter Games coming out today with the Golden Edition, a sort of sports version of the book, on the major platforms digital publications. The book was written and produced by the 2014 Sochi Project, a group of about twenty students, young researchers and editors from three research groups: Limes Club Bologna Chronicles International and iMerica, all with the support of the portals Olympialab sports and Stories (right) ordinary sport and the sponsorship of the Italian Society of Sport History, Library Sports - Centre for the Study CONI Emilia Romagna and Master in Diplomacy and International Politics at the University of Bologna.
The eBook is only apparently is addressed to an audience of scholars of geopolitics. '' In fact the work is designed for sports fans, who will devour hours of live television in these two weeks, they will want to learn and develop the background to the choice of the candidacy of Sochi, Russia, the superpower of cultural dynamics and implications sports and that can not be born from these two weeks.
The book is organized into short but in-depth articles that give the collection a cut dynamic and successful, with sections marked on geopolitics as "Sochi and the Caucasus", where they are told the challenges of the region and the Olympic city , from security to the risk of attacks by the dynamics related to the energy of the enormous resources invested in the games that have made this edition the most expensive in history, to move to sections definitely like to winter sports enthusiasts as "The Olympics and the sport. "
The Golden Edition of "The Russia Sochi 2014" is an updated, improved and full of new content purely sport,'' with the addition of the Olympic calendar, interviews Alberto Tomba, Carolina Kostner, Stephen Vegliani and other experts the sector.
In detail you will find:
- Interview with Alberto Tomba in Alberton'' interview retraces his career (especially the difficulty for a bolognese to be before noon on the slopes of the Dolomites), reminiscent of the gas stations who were showing "closed for Tomb" when he was competing, argues with the journalists, says'' s experience as a testimonial for Pyeongchang 2018.
- Article by Rudi Ghedini, journalist and sports writer, on "some of the events of snow and ice": the stories of the Olympics or major winter sports events have colored tints policies. From the Ice Hockey World Championship of Czechoslovakia where the hosts beat the Soviets to chanting "DubÄek" Putin'' s ultimatum to Salt Lake City. From damnatio memoriae that hits 11 Czechoslovak hockey players in 1950, to the exclusion of'' Schranz.
- Interview with Carolina Kostner, centered on the delicate relationship between sport and dance, physicality and grace, yin and yang of figure skating and he has chosen to represent two antithetical costumes and two different exercises with each other, such as those conducted on the notes of the rhythm Bolero and sweet Ave Maria.
- Calendar Olympic Maximum Brignolo. All the dates of all the races in all disciplines. But not only that: a brief history and regulations in order to understand even the most bizarre sport. The nation's most successful athletes and medalists. A complete product.
- In addition to the material of the golden you can report the historical re-enactment and detailed, as if we were there, Simone Pierotti of the "Miracle on Ice" in 1980, the three historical articles by Nicola Sbetti (Russian history at the Olympics), Sergio Giuntini (the variations of the sport for the Soviets) and Antonio Cicchella (the sense of sport to the Russians, between cold, hard, hope for a better future).
In addition, a focus on safety and on LGBT rights in Russia, a subject which in recent weeks has held forth on all the media on the planet.
The work, in digital format to give readers an added value, is distributed at a popular price: 0,99 €. In addition, on crowdfunding platform Eppela, can also be made small donations in exchange, inter alia, of a special version of the book and custom.
The site where you can find shopping channels'' s work is www.progettosochi2014.it
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