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  • The Boys in the Boat

    Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    by Daniel James Brown ...
    **Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George ClooneyThe #1 New York Times–bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany—from the author of Facing the Mountain.**For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine ... Read more

    PHP560.29

  • Periodization Training For Men In Sports

    by James Stark ...
    Looking to train like an athlete? Jumping into a training plan? Look no further, as this book is written to guide you about the different stages of periodization, the objectives of training and the expected results.The whole process of periodization is explained in an easy to understand manner to be used by trainers, coaches, teachers or the athletes themselves. The book goes in-depth to make you ... Read more

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  • Mind Gym : An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

    by Gary Mack, David Casstevens ...
    Drawing on his work with some of the top teams in professional sports, noted sport psychology consultant Gary Mack shares with you the same techniques and exercises he uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." These 40 accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes will help you gain the "head edge" over the competition. ... Read more

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  • More Than Medals

    A History of the Paralympics and Disability Sports in Postwar Japan

    by Dennis J. Frost ...
    How does a small provincial city in southern Japan become the site of a world-famous wheelchair marathon that has been attracting the best international athletes since 1981?In More Than Medals, Dennis J. Frost answers this question and addresses the histories of individuals, institutions, and events—the 1964 Paralympics, the FESPIC Games, the Ōita International Wheelchair Marathon, the Nagano ... Read more

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  • Sports Gods: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy, Joe Frazier, Joe Namath, Hank Aaron, Billie Jean King, Muhammad Ali, Bruce Jenner, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan, Barry Bonds, Brett Favre, Lance Armstrong ...
    Game on. The greatest athletes to ever play their respective sports are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From His Royal Airness Michael Jordan to the Great One Wayne Gretzky to Homerun King Hank Aaron, these incomparable athletes—the closest living equivalent to superheroes—reflect the very best of 50 years of the Playboy ... Read more

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  • Ronda Rousey: The Biography

    by Matthew Demers ...
    Ronda Rousey — Most dangerous unarmed woman on the planet. She's also an Olympic bronze medalist, UFC champion, and world’s largest female pay-per-view draw...But it wasn’t always that way. Once a shy, frustrated child, an outcast in school, & an unwelcome competitor in a male-dominated sport, walk along with Rousey as she pulls herself up from an unthinkable tragedy to become the UFC’s first ... Read more

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  • Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

    How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

    by Jack McCallum ...
    They were the Beatles of basketball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers.In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the planet, and remade the NBA into a global sensation.As a senior staff writer for ... Read more

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  • The Complete Book of Road Cycling & Racing

    by Willard Peveler ...
    Ride faster, fitter, smarter, & fartherEvery road rider has goals. Yours may be to begin racing, to become more competitive, or to win a specific tour. Not interested in racing? Perhaps you want to complete your first century ride, improve your overall fitness, or ride father and faster just for the sheer joy of flying on two wheels.No matter what your goals, The Complete Book of Road Cycling and ... Read more

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  • Maravilhosas

    Le storie più belle di Rio 2016

    by Luca Pelosi ...
    Le olimpiadi di Rio 2016 sono appena terminate e abbiamo ancora negli occhi le meravigliose immagini di chi vince, sale sul podio, batte primati mondiali. Ma c'è anche chi rimane ai piedi di quel podio, e chi viene amaramente sconfitto. Non sempre, però, arrivare ultimi è una sconfitta. Piccoli racconti olimpici che fanno rivivere alcuni momenti indelebili. ... Read more

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  • Los mayas

    Sabiduría ancestral, calendarios y ciudades sagradas

    by Bernard Baudouin ...
    En la región que se extiende desde Chiapas hasta El Salvador, desde el litoral de Tabasco hasta Belice y Honduras, y en la península de Yucatán, los mayas construyeron una civilización brillante, que durante siglos alcanzó un gran nivel intelectual y cultural. Esta obra nos descubre esta civilización lejana y nos presenta: los orígenes de la cultura maya (la herencia olmeca...), el apogeo ... Read more

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  • Ancient Greece and The Olympics | Children's Ancient History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Did you know that the ancient Greeks were also the first ones to come up with the idea of the Olympics? The idea was originally crafted to honor Zeus. From then on, the world caught on and the Olympics is now the biggest and most prestigious sports gathering worldwide. Read more details in the pages of this book. ... Read more

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  • Olympic Tourism

    by Mike Weed ...
    Olympic Tourism is the first text to focus on the nature of Olympic tourism and the potential for the Olympic Games to generate tourism in the run up to and long after the hosting of a Games. The awarding of the 2012 Olympics to London will see an increasing interest in the phenomena of organising, managing and analysing the issues which surround mega-event sport tourism. This text will address ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights

    Edited by William Rook, Daniela Heerdt ...
    Series series Sport and Human Rights
    The Routledge Handbook of Mega-Sporting Events and Human Rights is the first book to explore in depth the topic of mega-sporting events (MSEs) and human rights, offering accounts of adverse human rights impacts linked to MSEs while considering the potential for promoting human rights in and through the framework of these events.Drawing on the contributions of an international group of leading ... Read more

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  • Sports and Life, An Olympian's View

    by John Morton ...
    Sports and Life, an Olympian's View is a collection of 133 stories, essays and commentaries covering a wide variety of topics related to sports and life. For two decades, John Morton broadcast short commentaries on Vermont Public Radio and wrote a monthly column in the regional newspaper Vermont Sports Today. Morton was an Olympic biathlete (Sapporo '72 and Innsbruck '76) and a Nordic ski coach ... Read more

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  • The Strangest Race in Olympic History

    The 1904 St. Louis marathon and the day endurance became absurd

    by Jasper Wilson ...
    A marathon so chaotic it nearly destroyed the Olympic marathon itself.On August 30, 1904, thirty-two runners lined up in St. Louis for what was supposed to be an Olympic test of endurance. What followed was one of the strangest, most dangerous, and most darkly absurd races in sports history.The course was dusty, hilly, brutally hot, and barely controlled. Water was almost nonexistent—not simply by ... Read more

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  • Olympic Event Organization

    by Eleni Theodoraki ...
    Olympic Event Organization is the first text to address a number of important questions in contemporary mega-event management:Which organizations are involved in the Olympic Movement and in what capacity?What are the interorganizational flows of authority and finance between them?How is work grouped, in what unit sizes, how specialized and formalized are work processes?How complex, dynamic, ... Read more

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  • Together for a Greener Olympic

    by Wecandoit ...
    "강원 2024와 함께하는 올림픽 무브먼트 공모전"에서 ISF 국제스포츠전략위원회 청년리더단 위캔두잇이 진행한 지속가능한 스포츠 무브먼트 "TOGO 프로젝트"의 모든 과정을 녹여낸 그림책입니다.전자그림책은 청소년과 시민이 주도하는 그린올림픽, 환경을 생각하는 올림픽의 가치를 담은 그림책입니다. 이 사업 보고형 그림책은 플라스틱 업사이클링의 무한한 가능성 실감하기, 스포츠 경기 관람 후 쓰레기 분리배출하기, 스포츠 활동에 사용되는 용품들을 친환경 물품들로 하나씩 바꿔나가기 등 청소년과 시민들이 직접 실천할 수 있는 지속가능한 스포츠 생활을 소개하고 있습니다. 환경과 스포츠를 동시에 챙기고 보호하는 생활 습관을 습득할 수 있도록 이끕니다.또한 부록을 통해 실제 Together for a Greener ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare

    Edited by Melanie Lang ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Athlete welfare should be of central importance in all sport. This comprehensive volume features cutting-edge research from around the world on issues that can compromise the welfare of athletes at all levels of sport and on the approaches taken by sports organisations to prevent and manage these.In recent years, sports organisations have increased their efforts to ensure athlete health, safety, ... Read more

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  • Gender, Media, Sport

    Edited by Susanna Hedenborg, Gertrud Pfister ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    Despite the position that sport occupies at the centre of public attention, and despite the billions of consumers and immense coverage which it attracts from around the globe, it seems that the media prioritise coverage of only a very small fraction of sporting events, and a few prominent athletes. It goes without saying that sport in the media is dominated by men – they are a large majority among ... Read more

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  • The Olympic Sports Economy

    by Max Donner, MBA ...
    The Olympic Sports Economy incorporates exclusive case studies and reports from sports management conferences to illustrate the most important business practices and trends of the Olympics today.Every two years, the Olympics wins world attention with contests and celebrations. The success story of the world’s most watched event, best recognized symbols, and most enduring brand has many valuable ... Read more

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  • How to Support a Champion

    The art of applying science to the elite athlete

    by Steve Ingham ...
    If you are contemplating working with a champion, a potential champion, or anyone with untapped talent - be prepared, be very prepared. In 1998 Sir Steve Redgrave stared at Ingham and demanded to know, “Are you going to make me go faster?” Ingham had been trained and developed as a scientist, but in that single instance he questioned everything he thought he knew. Applied science in elite sport ... Read more

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  • La huella de los hérores

    De la épica de las maratones olímpicas a la fiebre por correr

    by Arcadi Alibés ...
    Translated by Alicia Capel Tatjer ...
    De la épica de las maratones olímpicas a la fiebre por correr.Gloria, drama y tragedia en un libro imprescindible que contagia la pasión del autor por una prueba mítica.1960. La maratón de los Juegos Olímpicos de Roma está a punto de comenzar. A lado de los grandes favoritos hay un desconocido, un etíope descalzo de nombre Abebe Bikila. Dos horas y dieciséis minutos más tarde, su victoria formará ... Read more

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  • Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games

    Volume One: Making the Games

    Edited by Vassil Girginov ...
    The Handbook of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is an authoritative and comprehensive account of the world’s greatest sporting and cultural event. It tells the complete story of the 2012 Games from inception, through the successful bidding process and the planning and preparation phase, to delivery, the post-Games period and legacy. Written by a world-class team of international ... Read more

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  • Unofficial 2012 Olympic Guides: USA Table Tennis

    by Kyle Richardson ...
    This is your complete guide to Table Tennis at the London Summer Olympics. Learn about table tennis, who is on the American Olympic team and which players to expect in the fight for the podium. This guide is your complete insider look at Table Tennis in the 2012 London Olympics. Includes tips on how to become an Olympic Table tennis player! ... Read more

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