Jeroen Heijmans: 2 books
by Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolved into racing on special tracks called velodromes....
by John Grasso, Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins...