EAN: 9781529910216

THE OTHER OLYMPIANS - MICHAEL WATERS KARTONIERT...

In December 1935  Zdenek Koubek  one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports 
declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time  the celebrated British field athlete
Mark Weston  also assigned female at birth  announced that he  too  was a man. Periodicals and
radio programs across the world carried the news  both became global celebrities. A few decades
later  they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions  what could have been
a push toward equality became instead  through a confluence of bureaucracy  war  and sheer
happenstance  the exact opposite: the now all-too-familiar panic around trans  intersex  and
gender nonconforming athletes. In The Other Olympians  Michael Waters uncovers  for the first
time  the gripping true stories of Koubek  Weston  and other pioneering trans and intersex
athletes from their era. With dogged research and cinematic flair  Waters also tracks how
International Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany's atrocities in order to pull off
the Berlin Games  a partnership that ultimately influenced the IOC's nearly century-long
obsession with surveilling and cataloging gender. Immersive and revelatory  The Other Olympians
is a groundbreaking  hidden-in-the-archives marvel  an inspiring call for equality  and an
essential contribution toward understanding the contemporary culture wars over gender in
sports.

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