This book combines diverse range of scholarly analyses that seek to understand how recognition of voices of athletes have developed over decades. While the touchstone is primarily the voices of atheles associated with Olympic-related sports, consideration is also given to actions and opinions of athletes expressed in other sporting spheres.

1. Introduction: The Voice of the Athlete in History 2. The Olympic Oath and So Much More: A Biographical Interpretive Analysis of the Life of Victor Boin, 1886-1974 3. 'If the IOC Finds Out About This, All of You Will Be Declared Professionals': Professionalization of Finnish Track Athletes from the 1960s to 1980s 4. Non-Racial Sport in South Africa: A Documentary Analysis of the Struggle for International Recognition, 1946-1971 5. 'An Honour, Rather than a Disgrace': Song Koon Poh, Apartheid Rugby, Tokkie's Dragons and the Politics of Dissent and Confession 6. Athletes in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-1992 7. The Athletes' Voice and a Feminist Ethics of Care: The Russian Doping Scandal at the 2016 Olympic Games 8. The Membership Composition of the Athletes' Commission of the International Olympic Committee: Between Appointments and Elections, 1981-2000 9. The Institutional Position of Athletes in the Governance Networks of the Olympic Movement in Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom