Cesar R Torres
Biographic Data
| ID | 9289705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cesar R Torres |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cesar R |
| FAMILY NAME | Torres |
| SIGNATURE | TORRES C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Brockport |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Futile Contestation for Olympic Power
Since its founding in the late nineteenth century, the procedure to elect the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has remained largely unaltered. Although generally accepted in the Olympic Movement, this procedure has been criticized and even contested. Moreover, particular nominations and elections for membership in the IOC have occasionally been challenged. For the most part, due to the inner workings of the IOC and its tight-l…
The New History of Sport in Latin America. Introduction
Thirty-five years ago, at a time when few were undertaking academic studies of sport and society in Latin America, the historian Joseph L. Arbena argued that sport could provide a window into the regional experience in the Americas. He also argued that the subject of sport had only received “limited systematic analysis.” To a large extent, that is no longer the case. Ruminating on that change, Gregg Bocketti recently affirmed that “now it is a ra…
Sporting Violence in Argentina during the Interwar Years
This article explores the representations of, and meanings ascribed to, boxing and fencing in Argentina during the interwar years. The focus is on the participation of Argentine fencers and boxers in the Olympic Games from the first official Argentine delegation in 1924 until 1936, year of the last Olympic festival before World War II interrupted it through 1948. This article begins by reviewing the trajectory of boxing and fencing in Argentina t…
Olimpismo
Olympic or Sacred? The Controversy over the Flame at the Inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games and Its Aftermath
In 1951, Buenos Aires hosted the inaugural Pan-American Games. On February 25 of that year, a Greek athlete carried a flame flown specially from his country onto the stadium where the event’s opening ceremonies took place and lit the cauldron. The uncertain character of the Greek flame transported to Buenos Aires alarmed many in Olympic circles. Confused and concerned, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigated the matter, which led t…
Fair Play
This book is primarily concerned with some of the most important kinds of philosophical issues that arise in sport which are ethical or moral ones. It focuses on the nature of principles and values that should apply to sport
Introduction
Drug Testing, Sex Verification, and the 1967 Pan-American Games
Despite frequent claims that invasive methods of sex verification and early procedures for doping detection were used in 1966 and 1967 at different major international sport competitions, little is known about the origins and rationales for implementing such procedures. This paper focuses on the drug testing and sex verification protocols implemented at the 1967 Pan-American Games held in Winnipeg. Specifically, it explores the conditions that le…
Argentina and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
The election of Raúl Alfonsín in October of 1983 represented the return of democracy to Argentina after more than seven years of a military dictatorship that left the country in a terribly distressed state. Since the dictatorship had joined the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics led by the USA, for Argentina, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics meant both coming back to the Olympic fold and the first such festival under the new democratic government. …
Sports Clubs with Football in Argentina
Football in Argentina was first built as a social practice and then as a spectacle, but it was always institutionally based on clubs. The predominant organisational model of clubs emphasised horizontality and equality as well as democracy and pluralism. Regardless of the changes throughout the last one hundred years, this model of clubs largely remains in place. This essay explores the development of clubs in Argentina throughout the twentieth ce…
The limits of Pan-Americanism
Although there had been suggestions to organise Pan-American Games as early as the 1910s, it was during the 1930s that such an event became a certain possibility. The cancellation of the 1940 Olympics due to the Second World War prompted sport officials in different countries of the Americas to vie for the organisation of a hemispheric festival to compensate for the temporal loss of the Olympic gathering. This article studies the failed attempt t…
The Latin American ‘Olympic explosion’ of the 1920s
In spite of Baron Pierre de Coubertin's efforts, the Olympic Movement did not rapidly win over a substantial number of Latin American hearts. During the first 30 years of modern Olympic life, Latin American athletes and officials played a negligible role in the Olympic Movement. However, that pattern changed in the early 1920s. Suddenly, Latin Americans entered Olympic arenas en masse. The dramatic change during the 1920s from the negligible role…
What was Pierre de Coubertin concerned about in 1889? A View from an Argentine Contemporary Source
For more than a century Baron Pierre de Coubertin was believed to be a self-inspired Olympic forebear. That idea has recently been challenged, most notably by historian David Young. According to Young, de Coubertin took the idea of international Olympic Games in modern times from W. P. Brookes. Young bases his case on new evidence found in the Brookes’s archives. In this article I present another piece of evidence helping to corroborate Brookes’s…
Tribulations and Achievements
By the end of the nineteenth century, modern sport had enchanted the people of Argentina. At that time the nation enjoyed a remarkable degree of economic prosperity and embarked on increasing political democratization. These circumstances, along with the fact that the nation was represented from the beginning, in 1894, on the International Olympic Committee seemed to favour Argentina as the spearhead of the diffusion of Olympism throughout South …
The Latin American ‘Olympic explosion’ of the 1920s
In spite of Baron Pierre de Coubertin's efforts, the Olympic Movement did not rapidly win over a substantial number of Latin American hearts. During the first 30 years of modern Olympic life, Latin American athletes and officials played a negligible role in the Olympic Movement. However, that pattern changed in the early 1920s. Suddenly, Latin Americans entered Olympic arenas en masse. The dramatic change during the 1920s from the negligible role…
Sports Clubs with Football in Argentina
Football in Argentina was first built as a social practice and then as a spectacle, but it was always institutionally based on clubs. The predominant organisational model of clubs emphasised horizontality and equality as well as democracy and pluralism. Regardless of the changes throughout the last one hundred years, this model of clubs largely remains in place. This essay explores the development of clubs in Argentina throughout the twentieth ce…
Tribulations and Achievements
By the end of the nineteenth century, modern sport had enchanted the people of Argentina. At that time the nation enjoyed a remarkable degree of economic prosperity and embarked on increasing political democratization. These circumstances, along with the fact that the nation was represented from the beginning, in 1894, on the International Olympic Committee seemed to favour Argentina as the spearhead of the diffusion of Olympism throughout South …
Fair Play
This book is primarily concerned with some of the most important kinds of philosophical issues that arise in sport which are ethical or moral ones. It focuses on the nature of principles and values that should apply to sport
Argentina and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
The election of Raúl Alfonsín in October of 1983 represented the return of democracy to Argentina after more than seven years of a military dictatorship that left the country in a terribly distressed state. Since the dictatorship had joined the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics led by the USA, for Argentina, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics meant both coming back to the Olympic fold and the first such festival under the new democratic government. …
The limits of Pan-Americanism
Although there had been suggestions to organise Pan-American Games as early as the 1910s, it was during the 1930s that such an event became a certain possibility. The cancellation of the 1940 Olympics due to the Second World War prompted sport officials in different countries of the Americas to vie for the organisation of a hemispheric festival to compensate for the temporal loss of the Olympic gathering. This article studies the failed attempt t…
What was Pierre de Coubertin concerned about in 1889? A View from an Argentine Contemporary Source
For more than a century Baron Pierre de Coubertin was believed to be a self-inspired Olympic forebear. That idea has recently been challenged, most notably by historian David Young. According to Young, de Coubertin took the idea of international Olympic Games in modern times from W. P. Brookes. Young bases his case on new evidence found in the Brookes’s archives. In this article I present another piece of evidence helping to corroborate Brookes’s…
Tribulations and Achievements
By the end of the nineteenth century, modern sport had enchanted the people of Argentina. At that time the nation enjoyed a remarkable degree of economic prosperity and embarked on increasing political democratization. These circumstances, along with the fact that the nation was represented from the beginning, in 1894, on the International Olympic Committee seemed to favour Argentina as the spearhead of the diffusion of Olympism throughout South …
What was Pierre de Coubertin concerned about in 1889? A View from an Argentine Contemporary Source
For more than a century Baron Pierre de Coubertin was believed to be a self-inspired Olympic forebear. That idea has recently been challenged, most notably by historian David Young. According to Young, de Coubertin took the idea of international Olympic Games in modern times from W. P. Brookes. Young bases his case on new evidence found in the Brookes’s archives. In this article I present another piece of evidence helping to corroborate Brookes’s…
The Latin American ‘Olympic explosion’ of the 1920s
In spite of Baron Pierre de Coubertin's efforts, the Olympic Movement did not rapidly win over a substantial number of Latin American hearts. During the first 30 years of modern Olympic life, Latin American athletes and officials played a negligible role in the Olympic Movement. However, that pattern changed in the early 1920s. Suddenly, Latin Americans entered Olympic arenas en masse. The dramatic change during the 1920s from the negligible role…
The limits of Pan-Americanism
Although there had been suggestions to organise Pan-American Games as early as the 1910s, it was during the 1930s that such an event became a certain possibility. The cancellation of the 1940 Olympics due to the Second World War prompted sport officials in different countries of the Americas to vie for the organisation of a hemispheric festival to compensate for the temporal loss of the Olympic gathering. This article studies the failed attempt t…
Sports Clubs with Football in Argentina
Football in Argentina was first built as a social practice and then as a spectacle, but it was always institutionally based on clubs. The predominant organisational model of clubs emphasised horizontality and equality as well as democracy and pluralism. Regardless of the changes throughout the last one hundred years, this model of clubs largely remains in place. This essay explores the development of clubs in Argentina throughout the twentieth ce…
Argentina and the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
The election of Raúl Alfonsín in October of 1983 represented the return of democracy to Argentina after more than seven years of a military dictatorship that left the country in a terribly distressed state. Since the dictatorship had joined the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics led by the USA, for Argentina, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics meant both coming back to the Olympic fold and the first such festival under the new democratic government. …
Introduction
Drug Testing, Sex Verification, and the 1967 Pan-American Games
Despite frequent claims that invasive methods of sex verification and early procedures for doping detection were used in 1966 and 1967 at different major international sport competitions, little is known about the origins and rationales for implementing such procedures. This paper focuses on the drug testing and sex verification protocols implemented at the 1967 Pan-American Games held in Winnipeg. Specifically, it explores the conditions that le…
Fair Play
This book is primarily concerned with some of the most important kinds of philosophical issues that arise in sport which are ethical or moral ones. It focuses on the nature of principles and values that should apply to sport
Olympic or Sacred? The Controversy over the Flame at the Inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games and Its Aftermath
In 1951, Buenos Aires hosted the inaugural Pan-American Games. On February 25 of that year, a Greek athlete carried a flame flown specially from his country onto the stadium where the event’s opening ceremonies took place and lit the cauldron. The uncertain character of the Greek flame transported to Buenos Aires alarmed many in Olympic circles. Confused and concerned, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) investigated the matter, which led t…
Olimpismo
The New History of Sport in Latin America. Introduction
Thirty-five years ago, at a time when few were undertaking academic studies of sport and society in Latin America, the historian Joseph L. Arbena argued that sport could provide a window into the regional experience in the Americas. He also argued that the subject of sport had only received “limited systematic analysis.” To a large extent, that is no longer the case. Ruminating on that change, Gregg Bocketti recently affirmed that “now it is a ra…
Sporting Violence in Argentina during the Interwar Years
This article explores the representations of, and meanings ascribed to, boxing and fencing in Argentina during the interwar years. The focus is on the participation of Argentine fencers and boxers in the Olympic Games from the first official Argentine delegation in 1924 until 1936, year of the last Olympic festival before World War II interrupted it through 1948. This article begins by reviewing the trajectory of boxing and fencing in Argentina t…
A Futile Contestation for Olympic Power
Since its founding in the late nineteenth century, the procedure to elect the members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has remained largely unaltered. Although generally accepted in the Olympic Movement, this procedure has been criticized and even contested. Moreover, particular nominations and elections for membership in the IOC have occasionally been challenged. For the most part, due to the inner workings of the IOC and its tight-l…
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