The Olympic Games Miscellany
by White, John; Peters, Dame MaryFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-06-02
Publisher(s): Carlton Publishing Group
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Summary
The modern Olympic Games date back to the end of the 19th century and has developed a reputation for heroism, drama, and international friendship. Within these pages, the reader will learn hundreds of fascinating facts about the Olympic Games on a wide range of topics, from individual competitors and famous teams to sports politics and scandals and controversies off the track. Not only a book to be read from cover to cover, this is a perfect collection to be dipped into and enjoyed in short sprintsa reader can check out the quotes, peruse the nicknames, revisit the Black Power protests, unravel the drug scandals, and then go over the biographies. Researched with unflagging energy by an unrivaled master of sporting trivia,The Olympic Games Miscellanywill bring hours of reading pleasure to every sports fan.
Author Biography
John White is the author of The Formula One Miscellany and The Golf Miscellany. Dame Mary Peters won the gold medal for the pentathlon in the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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