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| From bestselling author Maraniss comes a groundbreaking book that weaves sports, politics, and history into a tour de force about the 1960... This work is a history, based on many interviews and meticulous research in primary source documents, of womens track and field, from its...
Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, have been far from complete. The Antwerp...
"Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport." *Walter Clemons Newsweek "A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND... Michael Phelps is an American swimmer. He holds the record for winning the most gold medals (8) in a single Olympics (2008). He has won 16...
Approaching questions about the nature and future of China through the lens of sports--particularly as sports finds its utmost international... In this gold-medal performance, Olympic-writer Wallechinsky combines comprehensive results, statistics, and records with photographs and the...
This exhaustive history details every U.S. Olympic team, Olympic trial, national championship, Pan American Game and other significant meets... The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed "The Farcical Games." The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had...
"Numerous interesting facts about the poorly documented early years of Olympic history" The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to...
The Olympic Games bring together thousands of athletes, competing in over 40 sports, and representing over 200 nations. But that is just the... Walters presents the complete history of two fateful weeks in August 1936 that would be a preview of the political conflict soon to engulf...
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the... The Olympic Games symbolize global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through sports. However,...
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