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  • Private Games

    (Private 3)

    by James Patterson ...
    Series Book 3 - Private
    July 2012: The Games have arrived in London. Preparations have gone flawlessly and the stage is set for one of the greatest ever showcases of sporting excellence. But one man has a devastating plan. Having waited years for this chance, he is now ready for vengeance.When Sir Denton Marshall, a key member of the London Olympic organising committee, is found decapitated in his garden, Peter Knight, ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding

    The Bible of Bodybuilding, Fully Updated and Revis

    by Arnold Schwarzenegger ...
    From elite bodybuilding competitors to gymnasts, from golfers to fitness gurus, anyone who works out with weights must own this book -- a book that only Arnold Schwarzenegger could write, a book that has earned its reputation as "the bible of bodybuilding."Inside, Arnold covers the very latest advances in both weight training and bodybuilding competition, with new sections on diet and nutrition, ... Read more

    34,37 €

  • Front Sight

    by Marco Masetti ...
    FRONT SIGHTby Marco MasettiSynopsisFRONT SIGHT is a collection of my notes as a high level Target Shooting Coach, who managed to achieve training an Athlete who won a Silver medal at the London Olympics.Mainly I speak of the training methodology in the field of Olympic target shooting, explaining in detail a method that was innovative in the period 2009-2012.More generally I speak of technical ... Read more

    9,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Today We Die a Little

    Emil Zátopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero

    by Richard Askwith ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARThe definitive biography of one of the greatest, most extraordinary runners and Olympic heroes of all time, from the author of running classic Feet in the Clouds.Emil Zátopek won five Olympic medals, set 18 world records, and went undefeated over 10,000 metres for six ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • If Gold Is Our Destiny

    How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory

    by Sean P. Murray ...
    The true story of how a group of talented volleyball players learned to put their egos aside, became a team, and changed the sport of volleyball forever.In the early 1980s, a golden generation of volleyball players joined the U.S. men’s national team. With the Olympics coming to Los Angeles in 1984, the pressure was on to build a winning program around these exceptional athletes. But could a group ... Read more

    16,53 €

  • Berlin 1936

    Sixteen Days in August

    by Oliver Hilmes ...
    Translated by Jefferson Chase ...
    WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITINGA captivating account of the Nazi Olympics – told through the voices and stories of those who were there.'Compelling, suspenseful and beautifully done' Anna Funder, author of STASILANDFor sixteen days in the summer of 1936, the world’s attention turned to the German capital as it hosted the Olympic Games.Seen thr... ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • The Other Olympians

    A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport

    by Michael Waters ...
    In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Le Jeu de la vie

    Dieu T’Aime, #9

    by Zacharias Tanee Fomum ...
    Series Book 9 - Dieu T’Aime
    Jeux d'été 2024 ! Et si c'était aussi l'occasion de considérer cet autre jeu dans lequel chacun de nous est un athlète, celui de la vie ?C'est ce à quoi nous invite le Professeur Fomum, fidèle à la vision du développement complet de l'individu par laquelle étaient mus ces anciens Grecs à qui nous devons les Jeux Olympiques.Il aborde le sujet dans une perspective spirituelle et, avec un style ... Read more

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  • Sommeren 1960

    by Hans Mortensen ...
    Klokken er tæt på 22.00 den 6. september 1960. Mørket har sænket sig, og det elektriske lys er tændt over Flaminio Stadion i Rom. Den danske landsholdsmålmand, Henry From, går roligt tilbage mod sit mål. Inden han går på plads på stregen, placerer han sit tyggegummi på den ene stolpe. Så vender han sig om og kigger på en af verdens bedste straffesparkskytter. I sekunderne efter skriver han dansk ... Read more

    15,47 €

  • PUSH

    Breaking through the Barriers

    by Johnny Quinn ...
    Johnny Quinn shares his “wild dream” of playing in the NFL, being crushed after getting cut three times, losing $2.6 million in contracts, and blowing out his knee. At age thirty, when most professional athletes are considered “over the hill,” Johnny was competing for Team USA in the sport of bobsled at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.This book ushers readers through the valleys of life ... Read more

    4,97 €

  • Sticks 'n' Stones

    The Battle for Curling to be an Olympic Sport

    by Warren Hansen, Michael Burns ...
    In the 1970s, when most people thought about curling they thought it was just a game, something that could never be a real sport. Warren Hansen, a top curler in the seventies, felt curling wasn’t viewed fairly by the sports world. That needed to change.Hansen joined forces with Ray Kingsmith in the late 1970s to change this, setting out to get curling into the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary as a ... Read more

    12,71 €

  • Mark Spitz

    The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion

    by Richard J Foster ...
    Mark Spitz is arguably the most famous and successful Olympic athlete of all time because of his legendary performances at the 1972 Olympics, where he won seven gold medals while breaking seven world records. His amazing life story is told for the first time in the authorized biography Mark Spitz: The Extraordinary Life of an Olympic Champion.This exclusive account follows Spitz’s roller-coaster ... Read more

    11,54 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unbroken

    The inspirational memoir from the double-world champion and Olympic silver medallist

    by Katarina Johnson-Thompson ...
    ‘Kat is a warrior, both on the track and off it. This book is a stunning testimony to the power of believing in yourself’ – **Sir Chris Hoy‘An extraordinary story of resilience and determination, from an incredible athlete’ – Dame Jessica Ennis-HillThe inspirational and powerful memoir from double world heptathlon champion and Team GB Olympian Katarina Johnson-Thompson.**Katarina Johnson-Thompson ... Read more

    Was 20,02 € Now 13,03 €

  • Strategic Sports Event Management

    by Guy Masterman ...
    This book provides students and event managers with an insight into the strategic management of sports events of all scales and types, from international mega-events to community sport. Introducing key theory and best practice, it offers a practical, step-by-step guide to planning, organizing, managing and evaluating events.Now in a fully revised and updated fourth edition, the book explains the ... Read more

    78,15 €

  • Routledge Handbook of Sport History

    Edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth, Carly Adams ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history.Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an intellectual agenda for the future development of the discipline. The book explores both traditional and non-traditional methodologies in sport history, and ... Read more

    59,83 €

  • Sport History

    The Basics

    by Gerald R. Gems ...
    Series series The Basics
    This is a fundamental text for the study of sport history.It answers the ‘why,’ ‘how,’ and ‘what’ questions, introducing the key principles and practices of sport history and walking the reader through the fascinating stories, debates, issues, and national and international narratives that constitute the history of sport.The book provides an overview of the field and the various professional roles ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • The Gladiator Mindset

    Push Your Limits. Overcome Challenges. Achieve Your Goals.

    by Adam Peaty ...
    Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits and achieve the impossible from the one of the world's greatest swimmers'The most dominant sportsperson in Great Britain today - and perhaps ever' TelegraphFrom one of the best elite athletes on the planet comes a book bursting with no-nonsense advice on how to locate your inner gladiator, and first-hand wisdom to help ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • In Pursuit of Glory

    by Bradley Wiggins ...
    Bradley Wiggins is a British sporting legend. Not only has he won seven World Track Championships and a record-equalling seven Olympic medals, including double-gold in Beijing in 2008 and gold in the time trial in London in 2012, he is the first Briton to have won cycling's ultimate prize, the Tour de France.He is an immensely talented and dedicated endurance athlete with a gritty, down-to-earth ... Read more

    2,99 €

  • Planning Olympic Legacies

    Transport Dreams and Urban Realities

    by Eva Kassens-Noor ...
    When a city wins the right to hold the Olympics, one of the oft cited advantages to the region is the catalytic effect upon the urban and transport projects of the host cities. However, with unparalleled access to documents and records, Eva Kassens-Noor questions and challenges this fundamental assertion of host cities who claim to have used the Olympic Games as a way to move forward their urban ... Read more

    65,94 €

  • Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece

    Edited by Eleni Fournaraki, Zinon Papakonstantinou ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Ancient Greece was the model that guided the emergence of many facets of the modern sports movement, including most notably the Olympics. Yet the process whereby aspects of the ancient world were appropriated and manipulated by sport authorities of nation-states, athletic organizations and their leaders as well as by sports enthusiasts is only very partially understood.This volume takes modern ... Read more

    52,50 €

  • Over It

    How to Face Life’s Hurdles with Grit, Hustle, and Grace

    by Lolo Jones ...
    Get a high-octane dose of encouragement from Lolo Jones, three-time Olympian and world champion hurdler and bobsledder.Growing up in a broken home, Lolo learned to shoplift at a young age just to eat at night and sometimes slept on the basement floor of the Salvation Army. While her father was in prison, her mother worked multiple jobs, and Lolo realized she needed to be self-motivated, singularly ... Read more

    13,66 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport Participation and Olympic Legacies

    A Comparative Study

    Edited by Spencer Harris, Mathew Dowling ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy
    This book examines claims that the Olympic Games are a vehicle to inspire and increase mass sport participation. It focuses on the mass sport participation legacy of the most recent hosts of the summer Olympics, including Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing, London, Rio, and Tokyo.It is organised by host city/country and applies an analytical framework to each, addressing the socio-political context ... Read more

    57,39 €

  • 52 Marathons in 52 Weeks

    ow to Run a Marathon Every Week for a Year

    by HowExpert, Karl Gruber ...
    “52 Marathons In 52 Weeks: How to Run a Marathon Every Week For a Year” by Karl Gruber is the definitive guide on how to go about preparing yourself to run one 26.2 mile race – a marathon – for 52 straight weeks. Gruber stands on a platform of integrity of his expertise in writing about this topic in that he himself successfully accomplished running 52 marathons in 52 weeks in 1996 – 1997. While ... Read more

    9,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Games by The Times

    Great Britain’s Finest Sporting Hour

    by The Times ...
    A glorious, fully illustrated celebration of the London 2012 Olympic Games, with expert analysis and comment from The Times’ cast of sporting experts and brought to life with sumptuous, award-winning photographsThe London 2012 Olympic Games are one of the great success stories not just in British sport but beyond that. An unprecedented number of golds won by Team GB, countless magical moments that ... Read more

    20,02 €