Historical dictionary of the olympic movement historical dictionaries of sports kindle edition by grasso john mallon bill heijmans jeroen download it once and read it on your kindle device pc phones or tablets use features like bookmarks note taking and highlighting while reading historical dictionary of the olympic movement historical dictionaries of sports. Sports collectors digest 2011 09 14 building on earlier editions the fourth edition of the historical dictionary of the olympic movement stretches back to 1100 bce and reaches forward to 2016 containing more than 900 entries on people places ideas and politics it is a comprehensive single volume overview of the olympic movement. But the term olympic movement is foreign to all but devoted followers of the olympics basically the olympic movement is an attempt to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multi sport festivals and it seeks to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peacethe fourth edition of the historical dictionary of . But the term olympic movement is foreign to all but devoted followers of the olympics