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Excellent well-illustrated history of the Nordic Games, the first international multi-sport event that focused primarily on winter sports, and was held at varying intervals between 1901 and 1926. It was organized by Sweden’s Swedish Central Association for the Promotion of Athletics,and more specifically by Viktor Balck, a member of that association and one of the five original members of the International Olympic Committee.
It was, in many ways, a precursor to the modern Winter Olympic Games, whose success was a contributing factor (along with the social and economic turmoil following World War I) to the Nordic Games's discontinuation in the 1920s.
23 x 21 cms, hardback, 316 pages.
2001
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