Heather L. Dichter is associate professor of sport history and sport management at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She is the author of Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport's Cold War Battle with NATO, the editor of Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914, and coeditor of Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany's Metropolis.

Michelle M. Sikes is an associate professor of kinesiology and Africana studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Kenya's Running Women: A History and editor of three volumes on sport and society. A Rhodes Scholar, she received her doctorate from Oxford University after graduating from Wake Forest University, where she won an NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championship in the 5,000 meters and represented the United States at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Japan.