Author: Young, David C. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not...
Author: Caraccioli, Jerry / Caraccioli, Tom Publisher: New Chapter Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: With a thorough exploration of the political climate of the time and the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan, this book describes the repercussions of Jimmy Carter's American boycott of the 1980 Ol...
Author: Shaw, Christopher A. Publisher: Perseus Books, LLC Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The shiny rings of the Olympic Games have grown tarnished over the years as doping, corruption, and other scandals rise to the surface. Those scandals are the tip of the iceberg, according to author C...
Author: Wickenheiser, Hayley Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A behind-the-scenes view of the world's most exciting sporting spectacle, from a multiple medal winner and Olympic veteran. Hayley Wickenheiser is unarguably the best women's hockey player in the wor...
Author: Pound, Richard W. Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An IOC insider speaks out on creating a drug-free sports cultureWith doping charges leveled at athletes in baseball, cycling, and in the Olympics, cheating has, to many onlookers, become the norm in p...
Author: Pound, Richard W. Publisher: Wiley Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: An IOC insider speaks out on creating a drug-free sports cultureWith doping charges leveled at athletes in baseball, cycling, and in the Olympics, cheating has, to many onlookers, become the norm in p...
Author: Webb, Mark / Smith, Bruce Publisher: Paragon Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Complete guide to the 2004 summer Olympics in Athens in a pocket format. 190 pages, printable. Event diary cross referenced with venue descriptions Each sport cross referenced with event diary and ven...
Author: Buckley, James Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Sex & the Olympics: Condomania explores the importance of the condom and uncovers its controversial journey en route to becoming an Olympic tradition. It looks at just how many condoms are distributed...
Author: N/A Publisher: JDP ECON Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When the International Olympic Committee members selected the western Canadian city of Vancouver and its mountain top sister Whistler as the sites of the 2010 Winter Olympics on July 2, 2003, it did s...
Author: Witt, Richard Publisher: A&C Black Format: Adobe PDF
Description: I hope the Romanian doesn't get through, because I can't pronounce her bloody name.'Allegedly from David Coleman, British radio and TV commentator, at one of his many Olympic coverages, when he thoug...
Author: N/A Publisher: A&C Black Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Billed as the greatest sporting show on earth, the Olympic Games have produced countless memorable stories of achievement and endurance since entering the "modern" era in 1896.The major spor...
