Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, ten highly regarded Olympic historians presented a series of lectures on the politics, history, and controversies surrounding the winter games. Those lectures are collected in The Winter Olympics, offering readers fascinating insights into issues of gender, amateurism, commercialism, ceremony, and more over the one hundred years of Winter Olympics history. It also includes a survey of the Salt Lake Winter Games.

The only volume available that explores the winter games as a whole, The Winter Olympics is invaluable reading for understanding the movements’ roots as well as the contemporary issues surrounding the Games.

Larry Gerlach is professor of history at the University of Utah. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Roots of Our Olympic Games: David C. Young, University of Florida
The Cool Games: Winter Olympics, 1924–2002: Roland Renson, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Gendering the Winter Olympic Games: Kari Fasting, The Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Norway
Miracles, Modernization, Debt, and Even Disney on Ice and Snow: The North American Contribution to the Olympic Cultural Topography: Kevin B. Wamsley, University of Western Ontario, Canada
When Amateurism Mattered: Class, Moral Entrepreneurship and the Winter Olympics: Richard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Television, Corporate Sponsorship, and the Winter Olympics: Stephen R. Wenn, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Visions and Versions of American Culture at the Winter Games: Mark Dyreson, Pennsylvania State University
Toward a Cosmopolitics of the Winter Games: Jeffrey O. Seagrave, Skidmore College, New York
Flame and Fanfare: Victory Award Ceremonies and the Olympic Torch Relay: Robert K. Barney, University of Western Ontario, Canada
The Winter Paralympics: Past, Present, and Future: Gudrun Doll-Tepper, Humboldt Universitat, Germany
Salt Lake 2002, XIXth Olympic Winter Games: Alexander J. Hemphill, Salt Lake City