"Stephen R. Wenn and Robert K. Barney's latest book The Gold in the Rings: The People and Events That Transformed the Olympic Games makes its timely entrance. . . . A well-refined book that traverses the border of well-known historical terrain and fresh intellectual ground. . . . The authors point to the continued need to interrogate the money matters that lay at the IOC's heart." --Journal of Sport History
"A meticulous and absorbing account of one of the most intriguing and interesting dimensions of the modern Olympic Games, namely their transformation into a commercial mega-bonanza. . . . Engrossing, brilliantly constructed and told, and profoundly informative and edifying, a most worthwhile read." --Sport Literature Association
"Wenn and Barney convincingly portrays the progression and development within the IOC and they manage to do so without the nostalgic perspective of how the Olympic Games used to and ought to be." --idrottsforum.org