Book

The Other Olympians

Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

Michael Waters

2024

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Q&A

Discrimination Against Trans Olympians Has Roots in Nazi Germany

1934 world champion runner Zdenek Koubek, boxer Imane Khelif, and how far we haven’t come on gender in sports.

by Michael Waters, Alex Abad-Santos via Vox on August 1, 2024
Q&A

Human Velocity

“The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports” upends long-held assumptions about trans people’s participation in sports.

by Michael Waters, Frankie de la Cretaz via The Baffler on June 7, 2024
Book Excerpt

A Forgotten Athlete, a Nazi Official, and the Origins of Sex Testing at the Olympics

In 1936, the Czech track star Zdeněk Koubek became world-famous after undergoing surgery so that he could live openly as a man.

by Michael Waters via The New Yorker on June 1, 2024

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