Olympics category: 421 books
Golden Girl
How Natalie Coughlin Fought Back, Challenged Conventional Wisdom, and Became America's Olympic Champion
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
The story of Natalie Coughlin's remarkable battle back from injury and burnout to be-come America's Golden Girl—a two-time Olympic Gold Medal winner in swimming and the most decorated female athlete at the 2004 Olympics
Five years ago, Natalie Coughlin's promising swimming career was all...
The Mozart of Basketball
The Remarkable Life and Legacy of Dra?en Petrovic
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Dražen Petrovic was born on October 22, 1964, in Šibenik, Croatia. Learning basketball at an early age from his older brother, Aleksandar, Dražen was a natural. He began his professional career at the age of fifteen, playing for the national team, where he began his rise through the European circuit....
by Kyle Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This is your complete guide to Swimming at the London Summer Olympics. Learn about swimming, who is on the American Olympic team and which athletes to expect on the podium. This guide is your complete insider look at Swimming in the 2012 London Olympics. Includes tips on how to become an Olympic swimmer!
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory
Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century'
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Beijing 2008: Preparing for Glory - Chinese Challenge in the 'Chinese Century' brings together international scholars with an interest in sport and politics and sinologists with an interest in China - past, present and future - to explore global reaction to the Beijing Olympics - China's anticipated...
XIX Olympiad
Mexico City 1968, Sapporo 1972
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
The year 1968 is commonly remembered for the massive social and political upheaval occurring around the world at the time, but it was also the year of the Olympic Games of Mexico City. XIX Olympiad, the seventeenth volume in The American Century series, tells the story of one of the most exciting and...
Speed Kings
The 1932 Winter Olympics and the Fastest Men in the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
A story of risk, adventure, and daring as four American bobsledders race for the gold in the most dangerous competition in Olympic history.
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In the 1930s, as the world hurtled toward war, speed was all the rage. Bobsledding, the fastest and most thrilling way to travel on land, had become a...
by Kyle Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
This is your complete guide to Table Tennis at the London Summer Olympics. Learn about table tennis, who is on the American Olympic team and which players to expect in the fight for the podium. This guide is your complete insider look at Table Tennis in the 2012 London Olympics. Includes tips on how to become an Olympic Table tennis player!
by Kyle Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
This is your complete guide to Rowing at the London Summer Olympics. Learn about rowing, who is on the American Olympic team and which athletes to expect on the podium. This guide is your complete insider look at Rowing in the 2012 London Olympics. Includes tips on how to become an Olympic rower!
The Nolympics
One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Nicholas Lezard loved London. Then the London 2012 Olympics came along ...
Suddenly his beloved city was invaded by über-people in branded sportswear who had contorted their bodies into odd shapes in order to run a bit faster, or throw things a bit further. Not to mention armies of reptilian...
by Jules Boykoff
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The Olympic Games have become the world’s greatest media and marketing event—a global celebration of exceptional athletics gilded with corporate cash. Huge corporations vie for association with the "Olympic Image" in the hope of gaining a worldwide marketing audience of billions.
In...
XXIII Olympiad
Los Angeles 1984, Calgary 1988
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
XXIII Olympiad, the twenty-first volume in The Olympic Century series, tells the story of how Los Angeles overcame Cold War posturing to make Olympic history.In retaliation for the US-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the Soviet Union and 16 other Eastern Bloc countries declined to attend the...
Power Games
A Political History of the Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games
The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation...
Rio 2016
Olympic Myths, Hard Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
A clear-eyed, critical examination of the social, political, and economic costs of hosting the 2016 summer Olympics
The selection of Rio de Janeiro as the site of the summer 2016 Olympic Games set off jubilant celebrations in Brazil—and created enormous expectations for economic development...
10 Amazing Olympic Lists
Everything You Need to Know about the Olympics
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Everything you need to know about the Olympics - and some amazing facts you wouldn't believe - are contained within this facsinating eBook. Who was the mascot for each games? What crazy sports are no longer events in the games? Who are considered to be the best athletes of all time? Were the winners...