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The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic Games--by one of the most celebrated sportswriters of our time. In The Games Goldblatt delivers a magisterial history of the biggest sporting event of them all: the Olympics. He tells the epic story of the Games from their reinvention in Athens in 1896 to the present day, chronicling classic moments of sporting achievement from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comneci, the Miracle on Ice to Usain...
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Welbeck
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Featuring stunning photographs and artefacts from the archive of the Olympic Museum, it tells the story of more than 120 years of sporting excellence, from the birth of the modern Olympics in Athens in 1896, right up to the delayed Tokyo 2020 Games. Packed with fascinating and stories and profiles of iconic athletes from across the globe, it's a definitive journey through every single iteration of the Olympics. It also includes rare documents that...
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Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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First edition.
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English
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"Swimming is a long thread that connects the Olympic heroes of today with the real and mythic ones of the past across more than ten millennia--a recorded history that begins in a cave in the Egyptian desert and sweeps across athletes and poets, statesmenand emperors, humans and gods; across the whole human experience, the entire human story. Splash! weaves a 10,000-year-old tale that begins in a bone-dry cave in the remote southwest corner of Egypt,...
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"Author Maraniss weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960 Olympics. Along with the unforgettable characters and dramatic contests, there was a deeper meaning to those days at the dawn of the sixties. Change was everywhere. Old-boy notions of Olympic amateurism were crumbling. Rome saw the first doping scandal, the first commercially televised Summer Games, the first athlete paid for wearing a certain brand. In the heat...
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This unique history of the Olympics, first issued in 2008, has been updated to include the Beijing Olympics and released to coincide with the London event. Written by the prize-winning sports journalist John Goodbody, and with a fascinating personal documentary featuring one of Britain's leading Olympians, Sebastian Coe, who is now heading the 2012 Games, this is an ideal opener!
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The 2018 Winter Olympics will be the stage for many compelling stories. Athletes like Ashley Wagner and Sven Kramer are windows into hidden social phenomena, from figure skating's eating disorders to the Dutch obsession with speed skating. Controversies like the Russian doping scandal, the NHL player ban, and the question of whether North Korea will compete or disrupt are creating human drama that affects thousands of athletes. Paralympic athlete...
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Edelvives
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Español
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From boxing to boccia, find out just what it takes to become an Olympic and Paralympic star in this hilariously informative guide to the games. For each sport you'll discover why it's great, why it's not so great, what skills and equipment you'll need to start practising and even how to sound like a pro! With bold, energetic illustrations and a text packed with weird, wonderful and wildly hilarious facts, this is a laugh-a-minute, fascinating guide...
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Other Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"Berlin 1936 takes the reader through the sixteen days of the Olympiad, describing the events in the German capital through the eyes of a select cast of characters--Nazi leaders and foreign diplomats, sportsmen and journalists, writers and socialites, nightclub owners and jazz musicians. While the events in the Olympic stadium, such as when an American tourist breaks through the security and manages to kiss Hitler, provide the focus and much of the...
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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First edition.
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English
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"In the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and as a competitive sport, it was almost unheard of. That is, until Charles Daniels took to the water. On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety and a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before...
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For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. It's why, when Sera's best friend reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects the...
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Maggie Atwood and Becky McCabe, mother and daughter, both champion riders, vowed to never, ever, go up against one another. Until the tense, harrowing competitions leading to the Paris Olympics. Mother and daughter share a dream: to be the best horsewoman in the world.
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Magic tree house volume 16
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Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
2007
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Español
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Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
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Triumph Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"In High Drama, John Burgman weaves a multilayered story exploring rock climbing's transformation from a pursuit of select anti-establishment vagabonds to a sport embraced by competitors of all ages, social classes, and backgrounds."-- Provided by publisher.
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A true story about professional cycling. This 55,000+ word non-fictional epic book by Matt DeCanio, a former European Pro Cyclist, details his heroic experience as being the most talented cyclist in history to be fired for opposing Lance Armstrong. Through his journey he learned the secrets to ending doping in sports, lying, cheating, mass shootings, divorce, depression, addiction, racism, violence, greed, suicide, lust, envy, world wars, and all...
19) Olympic Records
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English
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Usain Bolt sprints past the competition at the 2012 Olympic Games. As he crosses the finish line, the world's fastest human sets a new Olympic record! Bolt's accomplishment is one of many incredible athletic feats highlighted in this informative book about Olympic records.
20) Gold: a novel
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Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
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