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  • SPORTS AND MYSTIFICATION
    Massimiliano Angelucci
    What really is what we now call “sport”? Although ubiquitous, it remains a little-understood phenomenon, and - always above reproach - can enjoy a favorable or otherwise indulgent public opinion. However, in sports almost nothing is as it seems. The book therefore uses a rigorous analysis of the sociological, anthropological and historical aspects that characterize the sport ...
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    11,08 €

  • Body Lengths
    Leisel Jones
    From the moment I am born, I am like no-one else around me. I am a fish out of water. Even in the pool.’Leisel Jones is rightly regarded as one of the greatest breaststrokers ever. At just fifteen, she won two silver medals at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000; she went on to win gold at Athens and Beijing, and at London 2012 became the first Australian swimmer to compete at fou...
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    27,62 €

  • Zany Games
    Howard Burman
    The 1900 Paris Olympic Games were zany in many ways:            No opening or closing ceremonies were held.            Some competitors had no idea they had actually participated in the Olympics.            Competitions included swimming obstacle races, underwater swimming, motorcycle             racing, live pigeon shooting, tug-of-war, ballooning and firefighting.            ...
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    19,31 €

  • The Olympic Games, the Soviet Sports Bureaucracy, and the Cold War
    Jenifer Parks
    Using previously inaccessible archival documents, this study provides a longitudinal investigation of the middle levels of Soviet bureaucracy responsible for overseeing Olympic Sport during the Cold War. Spanning the period from the USSR’s Olympic debut in 1952 through the 1980 Games held in Moscow, this book argues that behind the high-profile performances of Soviet elite athl...
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    135,93 €

  • Beyond the Finish Line
    Krista Guloien
    Are you an athlete transitioning from a career in sport and silently struggling along the way? Or perhaps you didn’t realize how you would feel when your athletic career ended and how difficult transitioning to life beyond would be.You are not alone. Krista’s forthright tell-all of her journey to the 2012 Summer Olympic rowing podium, as well as what came after, will help you f...
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    15,95 €

  • Judo
    Rodolfo Tello
    Displaying the most impressive throws, compelling armbars, dominant pins, and decisive chokes, judo is a particularly powerful sport and martial art that can bring opponents into submission in highly effective ways. With determination and perseverance, such tremendous power could be yours. Designed with safety considerations in mind, judo allows people of all ages to be involve...
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    12,21 €

  • Rowdy Rising
    Dainon Moody
    The limited shelf life of Olympic athletes collapsed in 1980 for Rowdy Gaines and about 280 other elite U.S. athletes when President Jimmy Carter announced America would boycott the Games in Moscow. Instead of distinguishing his country on an international stage, the world’s fastest swimmer found himself instead languishing in the lifeguard chair at his hometown pool.    Aut...
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    19,36 €

  • How to Support a Champion
    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 scien...
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    9,53 €

  • Berlin Games
    Guy Walters
    IN 1936, Adolf Hitler welcomed the world to Berlin to attend the Olympic Games. It promised to be not only a magnificent sporting event but also a grand showcase for the rebuilt Germany. No effort was spared to present the Third Reich as the newest global power. But beneath the glittering surface, the Games of the Eleventh Olympiad of the Modern Era came to act as a crucible fo...
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    13,17 €

  • Guide to Arrive, Survive and Thrive in Rio de Janeiro
    Norman Ratcliffe
    “Brazil is not Europe or the USA and can seem like a foreign planet to the visitor, so be prepared”! This unique book has important information not detailed in other Guides to Rio and Brazil It is written by a Professor of Biomedicine working on tropical diseases living and working in Rio for the last 25 years. It tells you how to remain safe and healthy, avoiding disease, a...
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    9,80 €

  • Kazakhstan Weightlifting System for Elite Athletes
    Gwendolyn Sisto / Ivan Rojas
    In 2012, Kazakhstan shocked the weightlifting world by winning four Gold medals at the London Olympics. Kazakhstan had competed as an independent country at the Olympics since 1996. Before the 2008 Olympics, Kazakhstan had never won gold in weightlifting. The secrets of Kazakhstan’s success lie in four elements: gifted athletes, a big goal, government funding, and a good plan. ...
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    11,73 €

  • Gold Medal 'Misfits'
    Pat MacAdam
    For sports fans everywhere. The untold story of a team cobbled together at the last minute that was so severely trounced in an exhibition match that many Canadians were against sending them to the Olympics for fear of embarrassment. With little financial support, the team stayed in fleabag hotels and were widely ridiculed -- until they hit Olympic ice and made hockey history. A...
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    34,49 €

  • Gold Medal 'Misfits'
    Pat MacAdam
    For sports fans everywhere. The untold story of a team cobbled together at the last minute that was so severely trounced in an exhibition match that many Canadians were against sending them to the Olympics for fear of embarrassment. With little financial support, the team stayed in fleabag hotels and were widely ridiculed -- until they hit Olympic ice and made hockey history. A...
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    18,53 €

  • Recordando MIS Programas de Entrenamiento
    Gpe Mauricio Carre Campos
    La gran lección de vida que recibió 'Mauri', al notificarle su médico urólogo que tenía cáncer de próstata y sobrevivir a una cirugía complicada que lo mantuvo en convalecencia por más de 2 meses, lo motivó a meditar sobre la necesidad de escribir sus experiencias deportivas como corredor, ciclista y atleta 'máster', aportándolas mediante los programas de entrenamiento que util...
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    39,47 €

  • Recordando MIS Programas de Entrenamiento
    Gpe Mauricio Carre Campos
    La gran lección de vida que recibió 'Mauri', al notificarle su médico urólogo que tenía cáncer de próstata y sobrevivir a una cirugía complicada que lo mantuvo en convalecencia por más de 2 meses, lo motivó a meditar sobre la necesidad de escribir sus experiencias deportivas como corredor, ciclista y atleta 'máster', aportándolas mediante los programas de entrenamiento que util...
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    20,94 €

  • Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
    Paul Christesen
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    86,13 €

  • Modern Pentathlon a Centenary History
    Andy Archibald
    On an August evening in 2012, crowds of eager fans will witness the conclusion of the Modern Pentathlon competition in Greenwich Park’s Olympic stadium. The sport has been the ultimate test of the best all round sportsman in the Olympic Games for exactly one hundred years. Great Britain is the only country in the world to have been represented at every Olympic competition. In M...
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    18,32 €

  • Shattered Hopes
    Sheila Hurtig Robertson
    On December 27, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, a distant land unknown to most Canadians. Knowledge would come quickly over the coming months, particularly to the dozens of Canadian athletes who were entering the final stages of training for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.The invasion set off a chain of events that dominated the headlines of the day. A crucial fal...
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    17,86 €

  • The Olympics’ 50 Craziest Stories
    Les Woodland
    Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After reading Les Woodland’s 'The Olympics’ 50 Craziest Stories' the reader might wonder if the motto should be Sillier, Loonier, Crazier. There is the gentle rower who was winning his race when he stopped his scull to avoid scattering a mother duck and her ducklings-we’ll le...
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    18,94 €

  • The Sport of Olympic-Style Weightlifting
    Carl Miller
    This book consolidates Carl Miller's extensive knowledge gained while pursuing his life's work in Olympic-style weightlifting. There are scientific principles behind Olympic-style weightlifting, and Miller's 50 years of lifting, researching and coaching provide valuable insight into the process of Olympic lifting. Whether you are an advanced lifter or a novice, Miller equips yo...
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    23,11 €

  • John Apostal Lucas
    John Apostal Lucas
    John Lucas has dedicated his nearly half-century of academic life at Penn State University to researching and writing about his first love of sport, track and field, and the Olympics. He has attended every Summer Olympics since the 1960 Rome Games and has written several books, including ’Future of the Olympic Games.’ From his over 200 monographs and articles, Lucas has selecte...
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    47,13 €

  • Wobbles
    Nadine Neumann
    Wobbles spans the physical, psychological and spiritual growth of an athlete from childhood into her stature as a fierce, Olympic competitor.When Nadine Neumann decides that she wants to be an Olympic swimmer at age eight, she trades a normal life of school friends and parties for the rigours of elite sports training.With acute honesty, wisdom and humour, Nadine spins readers t...
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    29,78 €

  • Row Daily, Breathe Deeper, Live Better
    D.P. Ordway
    Advance Praise for Row Daily'This book has the potential to change and lengthen your active life.'-Jo A. Hannafin, MD'. . . shows the way to improve your fitness and quality of life through rowing.'- Marlene Royle, OTR'I use the principles in this book to help train people to become Navy SEALS; you can use them to improve your fitness at your own pace, whatever that may be.'-Mi...
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    29,98 €

  • Row Daily, Breathe Deeper, Live Better
    D.P. Ordway
    Advance Praise for Row Daily'This book has the potential to change and lengthen your active life.'-Jo A. Hannafin, MD'. . . shows the way to improve your fitness and quality of life through rowing.'- Marlene Royle, OTR'I use the principles in this book to help train people to become Navy SEALS; you can use them to improve your fitness at your own pace, whatever that may be.'-Mi...
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    18,74 €

  • Olympic Victor Lists and Ancient Greek History
    Paul Christesen
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    173,31 €

  • The Second Mark
    Joy Goodwin
    It was billed as the greatest event in the history of pair skating: three of the best teams of all time battling for Olympic gold on one night in Salt Lake City. Technical ability was approximately equal. It was the artistic merit score that would decide the gold medal -- the second mark.Representing Canada, China, and Russia, the three pairs illuminated their distinct cultures...
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    19,77 €

  • Red Rose Crew
    Daniel Boyne / Daniel JBoyne
    A heroic story of women rowers who fought the tide of sexual prejudice to gain international glory. ...
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    14,58 €

  • The 2012 Bid
    Chetan Dave
    The race to secure the bid for the Summer Games of 2012 is among the most intense in history. Five of the world’s most prominent cities have tossed their hat into the ring for the right to host the most prestigious international event in sports. They have consciously chosen to saddle the immense responsibility that comes with a winning bid. It seems that, more than any impendi...
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    16,43 €

  • All Together
    William A. Stowe
    'In this book on the spectacular races at the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games, Bill Stowe writes with the same deadly accuracy and drive that he showed as the stroke of that crew. He writes not as his own remembrances would be so long after the fact, but rather in the tightly woven factual web of interviews of rowers from around the world. This is a compelling book because it develops...
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    19,83 €

  • Encyclopedia of the Modern Olympic Movement
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    132,79 €


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