Item Detail
-
22701
-
2
-
0
-
English
-
The "Mormon Games" : Religion, Media, Cultural Politics, and the Salt Lake Winter Olympics
-
Rethinking the Olympics : Cultural Histories of the Modern Games
-
Morgantown
-
West Virginia University
-
379-432
-
"From the perspective of Olympic history, scholars and journalists will always view Salt Lake 2002 as the Scandal Games for the bid scandal that preceded it and the figure skating scandal that marred it. From the perspective of local history, they should also think of the Salt Lake winter Olympics, if not as the Mormons Games, then at least as the Olympics that took place among the Mormons. Given the pervasive influence and ubiquitous prescence of the LDS church in Utah and in the 2002 Games, how could it be otherwise?" [From the author's conclusion]