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The Red Rose Crew : A True Story of Women, Winning, and the Water
Daniel J. Boyne
Paperback - $23.95
"The Red Rose Crew is in fact a classic and it belongs on any number of lists: a list of sports thrillers (it's a great read, almost impossible to put down); a list of the changes wrought by the women's sports movement that began in the sixties; and ...
Representing the Nation : Sport and Spectacle in Post-Revolutionary Mexico
Brewster Claire
Other - $265.95
Boycott : Stolen Dreams of the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games
Tom Caraccioli
Hardcover - $39.95
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 Olympic Games in Moscow. Despite missing the games t ...
Post-Olympism? : Questioning Sport in the Twenty-First Century
Mette Krogh Christensen
Paperback - $67.95
The Olympic Games symbolize global cooperation, international understanding and the bonding of individuals through sports. However, throughout the history of the modern games, the Olympic ideal has often been confronted by a different reality. Crises ...
The Olympic's Most Wanted(tm) : The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities
Floyd Conner
Paperback - $20.95
Olympic history is filled with the unusual, the bizarre, and the unbelievable. The OLYMPICS' MOST WANTED chronicles 700 of the most outlandish competitors in the history of the winter and summer Olympics. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail ...
The Olympic Odyssey : Rekindling the True Spirit of the Great Games
Phil Cousineau
Paperback - $28.95
This volume weaves together myths and fables with modern anecdotes, curiosities, and stories to emphasize the transcendent element that uplifts athlete, trainer, and spectator alike, anticipating the nostalgic return of the Games to Greece in 2004.
Making the American Team : Sport, Culture, and the Olympic Experience
Mark Dyreson
Paperback - $50.95
Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement
John E. Findling
Hardcover - $169.95
A quaint idea in the 1890s, the Olympic Games are now the foremost sporting event in the world. Information on the winners and medals abounds, but this unique book provides information on the events surrounding the Olympics: political controversies, ...
The Amateurs : The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal
David Halberstam
Paperback - $20.95
"Astonishing . . . Moving . . . One of the best books ever written about a sport."
*Walter Clemons
Newsweek
"A PENETRATING, FASCINATING AND REMARKABLY SUSPENSEFUL NARRATIVE."
*David Guy
Chicago Tribune
In The Amateurs, David Ha ...