The Olympics are coming!

If you, like me, have had John Williams’s “Olympic Fanfare and Theme” stuck in your head for weeks already (or are maybe just excited about the Olympics), check out the following library resources to get you in the spirit. The 2016 Summer Olympics are being held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 to 21.

The Olympics with chapters on whether or not Rio will be ready.
Cannell Library Second Floor, Call Number GV721.5 .O39275 2016

Racism and the Olympics by Robert G. Weisbord
Cannell Library New Books, Call Number GV721 .W45 2015

Hear the “Olympic Fanfare” on The Very Best of Erich Kunzel & The Cincinnati Pops Top 20 CD.

Cannell Library CD Collection – First Floor, Call Number M1070.C56 V47 1994

Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World by Donald G. Kyle about the earliest Olympics (available as an e-book).

Lecture 47 “One World, One Dream: The 2008 Olympics” on the DVD The Fall and Rise of China.
Cannell Library Check Out Desk DVD, Call Number DS735 .B3 2010

Watermarks which is a documentary about the Viennese Hakoah women’s swim team in relation to the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Or check out photographs of past Olympic games on Artstor.