{"id":478,"date":"2012-07-26T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polsis.org\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-07-26T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:29:06","slug":"sport-under-communism-dr-jonathan-grix-discusses-his-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/2012\/07\/26\/sport-under-communism-dr-jonathan-grix-discusses-his-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport Under Communism &#8211; Dr Jonathan Grix discusses his new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>POLSIS\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/staff\/profiles\/government-society\/grix-jonathan.aspx\">Dr Jonathan Grix<\/a> appeared on BBC Radio 4\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b006qy05\">Thinking Allowed<\/a> this week to discuss his new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/products\/title.aspx?pid=355003\">Sport under Communism: Behind the East German &#8216;Miracle&#8217;<\/a>, co-authored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlv.ac.uk\/default.aspx?page=14050\">Mike Dennis<\/a> from the University of Wolverhampton.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan discussed the factors that helped propel East Germany into the top-three in the Olympic medals table for over two decades. \u00a0He argues that aside from its notorious doping programmes, the GDR developed an integrated system for identifying and nurturing elite sporting talent that was forty years ahead of its time.\u00a0 Could the GDR offer lessons for Team GB?\u00a0 The programme is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio\/player\/b01l0gz4\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLSIS\u2019s Dr Jonathan Grix appeared on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Thinking Allowed this week to discuss his new book Sport under Communism: Behind the East German &#8216;Miracle&#8217;, co-authored by Mike Dennis from the University of Wolverhampton. Jonathan discussed the factors that helped propel East Germany into the top-three in the Olympic medals table for over two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/2012\/07\/26\/sport-under-communism-dr-jonathan-grix-discusses-his-new-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sport Under Communism &#8211; Dr Jonathan Grix discusses his new book&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[28,108,136],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-video","category-research","tag-communism","tag-olympics","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/polsis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}