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The story of Natalie Coughlin's remarkable battle back from injury and burnout to be-come America's Golden Girlーa two-time Olympic Gold Medal winner in swimming and the most decorated female athlet……続きを見る

**'Chris is someone I've always looked up to. A true role model.' - Geraint Thomas, 2018 Tour de France winner An invaluable manual for cyclists of all ages, experience and ability, which will help ……続きを見る

This New York Times–bestselling author's account of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin offers a "vivid portrait not just of Owens but of '30s Germany and America" ( Sports Illustrated). At the 1936 Olympic……続きを見る

Pierre de Coubertin (1863 – 1937) est un historien et pédagogue français, re-créateur des jeux olympiques Extrait : Nous étions trois, ce matin-là, Paul Bourget, Sam Pozzi et moi, sur le sommet d’un……続きを見る

Il primo fu Nino Bibbia, italiano di Svizzera, buttandosi a testa in giù sulla pista di skeleton di St. Moritz nel 1948; le ultime tre, a PyeongChang, nel 2018, sono state Arianna Fontana, Michela M……続きを見る

During more than forty years, Bruce Kidd has combined careers as an internationally ranked athlete, coach, sports administrator, professor and dean with critical scholarly and popular writing about ……続きを見る

The sense of crisis that pervades global sport suggests that the war on doping is still very far from being won. In this critical and provocative study of anti-doping regimes in global sport, Paul D……続きを見る

Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes bu……続きを見る

It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient gam……続きを見る

The 1968 US men's track and field team featured such legends as Tommie Smith, Bob Beamon, Al Oerter, and Dick Fosbury and they won 12 gold medals and set six world records at the Mexico City Games, ……続きを見る

America in 1904 was a nation bristling with energy and confidence. Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s young, spirited, and athletic president, a sports mania rampaged across the country. E……続きを見る

Soichi Hashimoto is one of the most exciting judo players today because of the dynamism of his throws. In this single volume, we take a look at five of his most popular throws through multiple conte……続きを見る

Acknowledging China’s established status as a global sporting superpower, this is the first book to systematically investigate sport policy in that country. With a focus on sport development in the ……続きを見る

This empirically-grounded text examines the policy, planning, development and implementation of disability sport events. It draws insights from a major international comparative study of different t……続きを見る

Case Studies in Sport Communication: You Make the Call goes beyond the box scores by offering readers the opportunity to evaluate popular and diverse issues in sportーincluding management, crisis, h……続きを見る

De l’Olympisme à l’Université ouvrière Mes amis semblent surpris qu’ayant eu la chance de gagner la bataille olympique bien plus complètement qu’ils ne l’avaient en général auguré, je ne me contente……続きを見る

Lorsqu'il édita ces Mémoires olympiques, Pierre de Coubertin avait 69 ans en 1931. Ce livre est particulièrement utile pour comprendre l'Esprit des Jeux Olympiques de l'ère moderne tels qu'ils ont é……続きを見る

Hace 30 años, cuando Ben Johnson pulverizó el récord mundial de los 100 metros lisos aplastando a Carl Lewis y se hizo con el oro de los Juegos Olímpicos de Seúl en 1988, afirmó que el oro olímpico……続きを見る

This is a multi-disciplinary contribution to the burgeoning literature on and around mega-events in general and sports mega-events in particular. The volume is not specifically about mega-events or ……続きを見る

Winner, 2019 NASSH Book Award, Anthology. The Cold War was fought in every corner of society, including in the sport and entertainment industries. Recognizing the importance of culture in the battle……続きを見る

Did you know that the ancient Greeks were also the first ones to come up with the idea of the Olympics? The idea was originally crafted to honor Zeus. From then on, the world caught on and the Olymp……続きを見る

Historical research on the Olympic Movement is highly valuable as it displays processes of continuity and transformation by which knowledge building processes on the Olympic Movement, its structure ……続きを見る

El calentamiento y la recuperación después del esfuerzo en la realización deportiva El rendimiento es una búsqueda diaria cuando se desea obtener los resultados de un deporte de alto rendimiento. La……続きを見る

Winner: David J. Weber-William P. Clements Prize In the summer of 1912 Hopi runner Louis Tewanima won silver in the 10,000-meter race at the Stockholm Olympics. In that same year Tewanima and anothe……続きを見る

Il 1968 è stato un anno spartiacque, segnato da molteplici eventi: dal Vietnam al Messico, dagli omicidi di Martin Luther King e di Bob Kennedy alle contestazioni studentesche. La rivoluzione è glob……続きを見る

Il padre, che fin da bambino gli raccontava le imprese del grande Rocky Marciano; un’amica di famiglia che un giorno gli regala un bel paio di guantoni rossi. Nasce così la passione per la boxe di M……続きを見る

Lograr y mantener el rendimiento a través de la dieta. El rendimiento es una búsqueda diaria cuando se desea obtener los resultados de un deporte de alto rendimiento. Además de un entrenamiento diar……続きを見る

Olympic Aspirations: Realised and Unrealised surveys more than a century of the Olympic Movement’s promotion of Olympic ideals internationally. The idea for Olympic Aspirations emerged at the world-……続きを見る

Mexico City’s staging of the 1968 Olympic Games should have been a pinnacle in Mexico’s post-revolutionary development: a moment when a nation at ease with itself played proud host to a global celeb……続きを見る

The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have dev……続きを見る