The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC - Part I: The Early Years (1894-1936)
The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC: Athens to London 1894-2012 is a dramatic account of the history of the world's foremost sporting spectacle. It is the lavishly illustrated story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often controversial fortunes of the governing body, which was formed in 1894, and of the highs and lows of the Olympics themselves since the first Games in 1896.It also tells the stories of the historic competitors - from Spyridon Louis (the inaugural marathon winner) and such heroes as Jim Thorpe, Paavo Nurmi, Sonja Henie, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Emil Zátopek, Herb…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78057-505-6
- EAN: 9781780575056
- Produktnummer: 13858776
- Verlag: Mainstream Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 278 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 13'090 KB
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David Miller has been a journalist since leaving Cambridge University in 1956 and has covered 19 Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and 13 World Cup football finals. He is the former chief sports correspondent of The Times and currently writes for the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of biographies of Matt Busby, Stanley Matthews, Sebastian Coe, and Juan Antonio Samaranch (translated into eight languages), and is joint author of IAAF 80, a history of 80 years of the International Association of Athletics Federations.
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