The Ancient Olympics
by Nigel Spivey
OUP, £17.99, pp. 264, ISBN 0192804332
Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games
by Michael Llewellyn Smith
Profile, £16.99, pp. 290, ISBN 186197342X
So politics should be kept out of sports? Tell that to the Greeks.

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