Table of Contents

Introduction: The History and Relevance of the Pan-American Games 1. The Original Pan-American Games? The 1937 Dallas Pan-American Olympics 2. Turning the Country into an "Immense and Clamorous Stadium": Perón, the New Argentina, and the 1951 Pan-American Games 3. Una Antorcha de Esperanza: Mexico and the 1955 Pan-American Games 4. Historical Erasure and Cold War Inter-American Relations: The Chicago 1959 Pan-American Games 5. Colonial Olympism: Puerto Rico and Jamaica’s Olympic Movement in Pan-American Sport, 1930 to the 1950s 6. Cultural Ambassadorship and the Pan-American Games of the 1950s 7. Drug Testing, Sex Verification, and the 1967 Pan-American Games 8. The 1971 Pan-American Games and the Search for Colombian Modernities 9. ‘The Event That Shook the Whole World Up’: Historicizing the 1983 Pan-American Games Doping Scandal 10. Cuba’s Challenges Hosting the 1991 Pan-American Games and the Spectacle of the Revolution’s ‘Soft Power’ 11. Paving the Olympic Dream: The Politics of the 2007 Pan-American Games in Rio de Janeiro 12. Canada and the Pan-American Games

About the Author

Bruce Kidd, A former Olympian, has written extensively about the history and politics of the modern Olympic Movement and international sport. He is a Professor of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto.

Cesar R. Torres is Professor in the Department of Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Kinesiology and a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport.