What Americans Don't Know About the Olympic Games and Why

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Here's your chance to get all of your Olympic questions answered with a world-renowned expert on the Olympic Movement and Olympic Games, John MacAloon, emeritus professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Learn  about "Olympism" and the "Olympic Movement," and the organizations that own and control the Games. Prof. MacAloon has been a key adviser to the International Olympic Committee and to a score of Olympic bid and Olympic Games organizing committees, including a member of the international relations team of the Chicago 2016 bid committee.