Olympics category: 421 books
Beneath the 2012 Olympics
A History of the Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In 2012 millions of people across the globe marvelled at the spectacle that was the London Summer Olympic Games, with thousands flocking to England’s capital to enjoy the sporting action first-hand. However, visitors to the new Olympic Stadium may not have realised that the site and surrounding area...
XV Olympiad
Helsinki 1952, Cortina D'Ampezzo 1956
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
XV Olympiad, the thirteenth volume in The Olympic Century series, tells the story of 1952 Summer Olympic Games of Helsinki, Finland. The Helsinki Games were the first for the Peoples' Republic of China, Israel and the USSR, and set a record for most world records broken at a single Olympics that would...
Drug Games
The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
On August 26, 1960, twenty-three-year-old Danish cyclist Knud Jensen, competing in that year's Rome Olympic Games, suddenly fell from his bike and fractured his skull. His death hours later led to rumors that performance-enhancing drugs were in his system. Though certainly not the first instance of...
The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China
Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing performances...
TIME-LIFE The Olympics
Moments That Changed History
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Time-Life Magazine presents 'The Olympics: Moments That Changed History.'
by James London
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Leading the UK track and field team to gold medal winning glory at the Athens Olympics in 2004 and again at Beijing in 2008 was enough for British Athletics to turn again to Walker and persuade him - the UK's greatest ever track and field athlete - out of retirement to save the nation from ignominy and...
by Dr. Neil Faulkner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
What was it like to attend the Olympics in 388 B.C.? Would the experience resemble Olympic festivals as we celebrate them today? This remarkable book transports us back to the heyday of the city-state and classical Greek civilization. It invites us to enter this distant, alien, but still familiar culture...
V & VI Olympiad
Stockholm 1912
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Following the emotional success of the I Olympiad of the Modern Era in Athens in 1896, the Olympic movement struggled through more than a decade of disappointment and uncertainty. It would not be until 1912 in Stockholm that the Olympics rediscovered the magic of Athens, and struck on a model for the...
The Most Dominant Team You’ve Never Heard Of: The U.S. Women’s Rowing Eight Olympic Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight
Outside the Rio Spotlight, #12
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2018
Winning every race from one Olympics to the next is incredibly difficult. Spanning three Olympics is virtually impossible. Yet, the American women's rowing eight, after just being edged out in Athens in 2004, did the impossible. They went undefeated for eleven years, which means they came into the...
Heritage and the Olympics
People, Place and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The Olympic Games have evolved into the most prestigious sport event on the planet. As a consequence, each Games generates more and more interest from the academic community. Sociology, politics, geography and history have all played a part in helping to understand the meanings and implications of...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes. This book explores whether it is ever possible to experience the Olympic Games as an athletic event without considering...
Patriot Hearts
Inside the Olympics That Changed a Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
A riveting behind-the-scenes account of the transformative 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games-an extraordinary story of visionary leadership, love of country and the ability to dream boldly.
When John Furlong emigrated from Ireland in 1974, the customs officer greeted him with Welcome...
As Good as Gold
1 Woman, 9 Sports, 10 Countries, and a 2-Year Quest to Make the Summer Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
Imagine George Plimpton. Except with real athletic ability. And he’s a woman. And she’s taken on a challenge that makes Paper Lion look like a brisk game of Go Fish.
Meet Kathryn Bertine, elite triathlete, former professional figure skater, and starving artist. Just as her personal and professional...
The Boys in the Boat (Young Readers Adaptation)
The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
The #1 New York Times bestseller about the Greatest Generation freshly adapted for the next generation.
For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Great Depression comes the astonishing tale of nine working-class boys from the American West who at the 1936 Olympics showed the world what...