Olympics 8

The Summer Olympics of Munich 1972 were called 'The Cheerful Games', but that was before the spectre of terrorism marked them forever in the history of sport. XX Olympiad, the eighteenth volume in T……続きを見る

Today the Olympic Games is a global spectacle that captures the attention of the entire world and has the power to produce moments of individual courage and triumph that live on forever. But there w……続きを見る

The X Olympiad, the tenth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins with the Games of Los Angeles, 1932. With the entire world locked in the depths of the Great Depression, the book describes the……続きを見る

Rome had been selected to host the 1908 Olympic Games, but the impact of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 on the Italian economy forced the Eternal City to withdraw. Rome would finally get a s……続きを見る

The Olympics are meant to be a celebration of sportsmanship and fellowship among nations, but they have sometimes fell short of that goal. XXII Olympiad, the twentieth volume in The Olympic Century ……続きを見る

XXVI Olympiad, the twenty-fourth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins with the celebration of the centenary of the modern Olympic movement at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games. Atlanta played ho……続きを見る

The VIII Olympiad, the eighth volume in The Olympic Century series, begins in the most extraordinary of cities at a most extraordinary time: Paris in the 1920s. Now the stuff of legend, it was a pla……続きを見る

Inspiring story of how a New Zealand woman, four-time Olympic windsurfing champion got to the top ー and stayed there. Barbara Kendall is one of New Zealand’s most successful Olympians and also one ……続きを見る

Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial expe……続きを見る

What does it take to become a champion? Gold medalist Missy Franklin, along with her parents, D.A. and Dick, tell the inspirational and heartwarming story of how Missy became both a legendary athlet……続きを見る

In 1998 vond in het voetbalstadion van FC Utrecht het WK hockey plaats. Sindsdien steeg het aantal hockeyers in Nederland spectaculair. Ricci Scheldwacht ging op zoek naar het verhaal achter deze op……続きを見る

Athene 2004, kippenvel. Wielrenster Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel valt, maar sluit haar olympische carrière af met goud. Tokio 1964: zwaar teleurgestelde en huilende Japanners omdat Anton Geesink de……続きを見る

Olympia ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte, die sich auch im Sommer 2012 in London mit den 30. Spielen der Neuzeit fortsetzen wird. Seit 776 v. Chr. wurden in Olympia die Spiele abgehalten, bis sie 393 n. C……続きを見る

Before Tiger Woodsーand before Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer and Ben Hogan, and even Bobby Jones, there was the great Canadian George S. Lyon. This first account of Canada’s little-known golf legend……続きを見る

The Olympics have developed into the world's premier sporting event. They are simultaneously a competitive exhibition and a grand display of cooperation that bring together global cultures on ski sl……続きを見る

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' ……続きを見る

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geogr……続きを見る

Why do we do it? Why do we push ourselves to the point of pain? Beyond pain! For earthly gain? Or for the glory that fills our souls? Hopes, Dreams & Medals - a book of poetry with an athletic theme……続きを見る

Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship. The "Olympic design milieu" fans out fro……続きを見る

This book examines the impact of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympic Games and highlights the latest findings in the areas of sport policy, elite sports system, sport media, sport ……続きを見る

Sport and peacemaking have evolved. It is no longer the case that the Olympic Games and war games exist in isolation from each other. Increasingly, policymakers, peacekeepers, athletes, development ……続きを見る

4000 questions in more than 200 challenging quizzes from the MindGames section of The Times to really test your general knowledge. Set the pace as quiz master for your friends, colleagues and family……続きを見る

Olympic Games are sold to host city populations on the basis of legacy commitments that incorporate aid for the young and the poor. Yet little is known about the realities of marginalized young peop……続きを見る

DARTS 101 shares the most current information on the game of darts in the United States up to date. The purpose of this book is to share the author’s experience and research in the USA’s darting com……続きを見る

The Olympic Games is undoubtedly the greatest sporting event in the world, with over 200 countries competing for success. This important new study of the Olympics investigates why some countries are……続きを見る

U-S-A , U-S-A is a familiar refrain heard in every Olympics, but truly it could be Wis-con-sin! Since pioneering hurdler Alvin Kraenzlein got his start here in the 1890s, the Badger State has nurtur……続きを見る

Voulus par Pierre de Coubertin, les jeux Olympiques de l'ère moderne se tiennent tous les quatre ans depuis 1896. Les Jeux ne furent pas célébrés en 1916, 1940 et 1944, en raison des deux conflits m……続きを見る

Discover the lost history of the Ancient Olympic Games. In popular belief, the Olympic Games were primarily a Greek invention. But this covers a secret history that connects the games not only to th……続きを見る

Este livro tem como objetivo mostrar a diversidade das atividades esportivas praticadas na Escola de Educação Física, Fisioterapia e Dança da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (ESEFID-UFRGS)……続きを見る

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award Simon Timson and Chelsea Warr were the Performance Directors of UK Sport, tasked with the outrageous objective of delivering even greate……続きを見る