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A celebration of 100 years of the modern Olympic Games, which were revived in Athens in 1896. Includes 120 colour photographs, the greatest athletic ... More

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Includes stories from Olympic history together with results for every event since 1896 and full coverage of the 1988 games.

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On the eve of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China, an acclaimed children's sports writer paints a compelling and comprehensive portrait of the ... More

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Available just in time for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, this thorough history celebrates the triumphs, the losses, and the competitive human ... More

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"Inside the Olympics" takes you to the heart of the world's greatest sporting festival. Discover the history of the Games from their origins in ... More

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The Summer Olympics are chock full of epic athletic achievements across hundreds of disciplines, especially Track and Field, Gymnastics, and Swimming ... More

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To mark the upcoming 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Peabody Award-winning Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan offers an irresistible collection ... More

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"The Olympics at the Millennium" offers groundbreaking essays that explore the cultural politics of the Games. The contributors investigate such ... More

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This volume briefly covers the history of the Olympic Games, and focuses on the 30th Olympiad held in London.

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Introduces the principles and history of the Olympic games and describes some of the major events that highlight each meet.

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An illustrated history of the Olympics with information on behind the scenes players and an explanation of how the Olympics became the greatest ... More

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Who was the star of the Berlin Olympics in 1936? Why were there no American athletes at Moscow in 1980? Which athlete lost her gold medal after ... More

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A variety of viewpoints, in historical context, are presented in this anthology on the place of the Olympics as the leading international sport event ... More

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Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After reading Les Woodland's "The Olympics' ... More

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Glories and fiascos, triumphs and tragedies, records and near misses--all are included in this vivid history of the modern Olympics. Using as a ... More

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The Olympic Games is unquestionably the greatest sporting event on earth, with television audiences measured in billions of viewers. By what process ... More

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An awesome festival of sporting excellence and competition, the Olympic Games have now evolved into a major international event with great cultural, ... More

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This is a compendium of the interesting, offbeat, and just plain bizarre, dating back to the first modern Games in 1896.

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In 1892, when Baron Pierre de Coubertin first presented his plans to revive the ancient Olympics, he could only dream of the international spectacle ... More

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Glories and fiascos, triumphs and tragedies, records and near misses--all are included in this vivid history of the modern Olympics. Using as a ... More

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