Olympics category: 421 books
Beneath the Surface
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
From the most decorated Olympian of all time comes a candid memoir of “adversities overcome and redemption through persistence” (Swimming World).
Having won twenty-eight Olympic career medals, including twenty-three gold, Michael Phelps is one of greatest swimmers in history, and one of...
Gold
My Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
With a show-jumping career spanning over forty years, Nick Skelton is a legend in the equestrian world. No other rider has won so many major competitions on so many different horses and he is as popular at Olympia and Hickstead as he is at Aachen, Geneva, Paris and Spruce Meadows. Skelton has competed...
The Wonder Crew
The Untold Story of a Coach, Navy Rowing, and Olympic Immortality
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
THE WONDER CREW is the fascinating story of how the salty coach of the Annapolis crew team, Coach Richard Glendon, seized the sport of rowing first from the Ivy League schools and then the imposing British with a new style both uniquely American and very much his own. He took a group of young midshipmen...
Ice Gold
Canada’s Curling Champions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The women’s team, which hails from Winnipeg, and the men’s team, based in Sault Ste. Marie, dominated the Sochi Olympic curling events, setting records and capturing the hearts of millions of Canadians. Now Winnipeg Sun sports editor Ted Wyman shares the stories of Canada’s favourite curlers....
Pippa Funnell
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Pippa Funnell is the golden girl of the British equestrian scene - but it hasn't always been so. She seemed doomed to be a 'misser' in the really big competitions, lacking that special ingredient that makes a true champion. Everything began to change for her in 1999 when her results, including her...
Olympic Television
Broadcasting the Biggest Show on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
As the Olympic spectacle grows, broadcast coverage becomes bigger, more complex, and more sophisticated. Part sporting event, part reality show, and part global festival, the Olympics can be seen as both intensely nationalistic and a celebration of a shared sense of international community. This book...
Delivering Olympic and Elite Sport in a Cross Cultural Context
From Beijing to London
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of sport policy, elite sports system, sport media, sport facility management and sport social development in the two host countries - China and Britain. It identifies the...
Olympic Exclusions
Youth, Poverty and Social Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young people living in host cities. Do they benefit from social housing and employment opportunities? Or do they...
Sport in the Cultures of the Ancient World
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Sport has been practised in the Greco-Roman world at least since the second millennium BC. It was socially integrated and was practised in the context of ceremonial performances, physical education and established local and international competitions including, most famously, the Olympic Games....
The Ancient Olympiads
776 BC to 393 AD
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Beginning with a single running race on the plains of Olympia, Greece, the original Olympic Games endured for almost twelve centuries and grew to become one of the most important cultural achievements of the ancient world. The Ancient Olympiads: Bridges to the Modern Era, the first volume in The Olympic...
XVI Olympiad
Melbourne/Stockholm 1956, Squaw Valley 1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
The 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, were unique in several respects: they were the first Games held outside Europe or North America, as well as the first held in the southern hemisphere. The XVI Olympiad, the fourteenth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins with the story of Melbourne...
XX Olympiad
Munich 1972, Innsbruck 1976
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
The Summer Olympics of Munich 1972 were called 'The Cheerful Games', but that was before the spectre of terrorism marked them forever in the history of sport. XX Olympiad, the eighteenth volume in The Olympic Century series, recalls the tragic events in Munich, along with the many moments of triumph.The...
by Steve Menary
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
GB United? is the story of the only time that the four parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland managed to settle their differences and play as a team in the Olympic Games. As the book charts the history of a team that played long before the World Cup existed but vanished four...
by Alain Ferrand, Jean-Loup Chappelet, Benoit Seguin
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
The Olympic Games have become the definitive sports event, with an unparalleled global reach and a remarkably diverse constituency of stakeholders, from the IOC and International Federations to athletes, sponsors and fans. It has been estimated, for example, that 3.6 billion people (about half of...