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Book Synopsis My Olympic Story: Band 15/Emerald (Collins Big Cat) by : Kwame N. Acheampong
Download or read book My Olympic Story: Band 15/Emerald (Collins Big Cat) written by Kwame N. Acheampong and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong's amazing life from a small town in Ghana to the slopes of the 2010 Winter Olympics, via the Snowdome in Milton Keynes. As the first Ghanaian skier in the Winter Olympics, this fascinating autobiography shows how perseverance and determination can overcome the greatest of challenges.
Book Synopsis My Olympic Story by : Kwame N. Acheampong
Download or read book My Olympic Story written by Kwame N. Acheampong and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Olympic Dream by : Emmanuel K. Nartey
Download or read book My Olympic Dream written by Emmanuel K. Nartey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Shot At History by : Rohit Brijnath
Download or read book A Shot At History written by Rohit Brijnath and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhinav Bindra once shot 100 out of 100 in practice six times in a row and walked out of the range unhappy. He is a perfectionist who once soled his shoes with rubber from Ferrari tyres because he thought it would help. He would wake up at 3 am to practise at his range at home if an idea suddenly struck him. It is from such obsession that greatness arrives. Abhinav Bindra's journey to become the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold, and the first Indian to win a World Championship gold, is a story of single-minded passion. The Olympics has been an all-consuming journey for him ever since he was shattering beer bottles and glass ampoules in his garden in Chandigarh. No obstacle was too hard to overcome, no amount of practice too much, no experiment too futile and no defeat so severe that it made a comeback impossible. Shattered by his failure at the 2004 Athens Olympics when a gold medal seemed imminent, he changed as a shooter: from a boy who loved shooting, he became an athlete bent on redemption, a scientist who would try anything - from mapping his own brain to drinking yak milk to climbing rock walls - to win at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. His victory was not just a personal triumph, it was a gift to his nation, a breaking down of a sporting barrier that had stood for a century. Bindra's feat has taught his peers, and those yet to come, that an Olympic gold isn't an impossible dream. In ranges, on fields, in arenas, Indian athletes now own a new belief, they wear the knowledge that no challenge is beyond them. Helping to tell this remarkable story is sportswriter Rohit Brijnath, who collaborated with Bindra in producing this compelling autobigraphy of one of India's greatest sportsmen.
Book Synopsis Beneath the Surface by : Michael Phelps
Download or read book Beneath the Surface written by Michael Phelps and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to peek into the mind of a champion, known as the most decorated Olympian of all time with 28 medals, including 23 gold, with this newly updated edition of Michael Phelps’s autobiography, Beneath the Surface. In this candid memoir, Phelps talks openly about his battle with attention deficit disorder, the trauma of his parents’ divorce, and the challenges that come with being thrust into the limelight. Readers worldwide will relive all the heart-stopping glory as Phelps completes his journey from the youngest man to ever set a world swimming record in 2001, to an Olympic powerhouse in 2008, to surpassing the greatest athlete of ancient Greece, Leonidas of Rhodes, with 13 triumphs in 2016. Athletes and fans alike will be fascinated by insights into Phelps’s training, mental preparation, and behind-the-scenes perspective on international athletic competitions. A chronicle of Phelps’s evolution from awkward teenager to record-breaking powerhouse, Beneath the Surface is a must-read for any sports fan.
Book Synopsis Pursuit of Excellence, the Olympic Story by : Associated Press
Download or read book Pursuit of Excellence, the Olympic Story written by Associated Press and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Olympic Life by : Anita L. DeFrantz
Download or read book My Olympic Life written by Anita L. DeFrantz and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Grace, Gold, & Glory by : Gabrielle Douglas
Download or read book Grace, Gold, & Glory written by Gabrielle Douglas and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring autobiography from Gabrielle Douglas—the first African-American gymnast in Olympic history to become the individual All-Around champion—revealing her journey from the time she first entered a gym to her gold-medal-winning performances. In the 2012 London Olympics, US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas stole hearts and flew high as the All-Around Gold Medal winner and the brightest star of the US gold-medal-winning women’s gymnastics team. That same year, Gabrielle was also named the 2012 Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation. In this personal autobiography, Grace, Gold, and Glory My Leap of Faith, Gabrielle tells her story of faith, perseverance, and determination. Walk with Gabby Douglas through her journey of faith and what her family overcame, from the time she first entered a gymnasium to her gold-medal-winning performances, demonstrating to readers ages 13 and up that they can reach their dreams when they let themselves soar. Grace, Gold, and Glory My Leap of Faith: Is the official autobiography of renowned US gymnast Gabrielle Douglas Chronicles Gabrielle’s journey from her first practice to becoming a 2012 gold-winning US gymnast Celebrates Gabrielle as the first African-American gymnast in Olympic history to become the individual All-Around champion, and the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual All-Around and team competitions at the same Olympics. Is one of the most inspiring books on the market today for reader ages 13 and up
Book Synopsis Game of Sails: an Olympic Love Story by : Carol Newman Cronin
Download or read book Game of Sails: an Olympic Love Story written by Carol Newman Cronin and published by Carol Newman Cronin. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casey Morgan has been dreaming of an Olympic medal since she was five years old, but she never asks for help—and she can’t win the Trials by herself. When Spencer Harding, her college sailing hero, designs a new sail that could provide her with the advantage she needs, Casey steamrolls into his small Cape Cod life to take over.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Olympic Torch by : Philip Barker
Download or read book The Story of the Olympic Torch written by Philip Barker and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the development of the run, the lighting of the cauldron and other symbolic elements of the Olympic Games
Book Synopsis The Olympic Odyssey by : Phil Cousineau
Download or read book The Olympic Odyssey written by Phil Cousineau and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was purchased by the US Olympic Committee and given to each member of the US Olympic Team of the Summer 2004 Games as well as those participating in the Special Olympics. Nothing draws people together quite like sports. This book explores exactly why that is. In anticipation of the nostalgic return of the Games to Greece in 2004, mythologist and life-long athlete Phil Cousineau has produced a work that, unlike other titles on the subject, delves deeply into the spiritual dimension of the Olympics and potentially all athletic activity. Reaching far back to the mythic and historic origins of the Games nearly 3,000 years ago, Cousineau examines the driving motivation behind these first ancient gatherings, which was peaceful competition in an atmosphere of fair play and brotherhood, as well as the pursuit of excellence in mind, body, and spirit. And following through to the present day, he describes how these same ideals still compel coaches, athletes, and fans to sports arenas today, despite obstacles with doping and bribery we occasionally find in the modern Games. A collector’s dream, this book contains ancient and contemporary illustrations, historic facts, anecdotes, famous quotes, and interviews with Olympic athletes, including three-time medalist Sarunas Marciulionis of Lithuania and legendary swimmer Matt Biondi. Also featured are excerpts from Cousineau’s interviews about the cultural role of sports with mythologist Joseph Campbell and religious historian Huston Smith. The Olympic Odyssey is written for all fans of the game of life who esteem true leadership, aspire to personal wholeness, and seriously question the cultural obsession with winning at all costs. Ultimately, it suggests the deepest reason we so love great athletes is for how they encourage us to achieve the highest level of being possible in our own lives, no matter what the arena in which we play.
Book Synopsis Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement by : John J. Macaloon
Download or read book Bearing Light: Flame Relays and the Struggle for the Olympic Movement written by John J. Macaloon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flame Relay and the Olympic Movement is the first book-length scholarly study in English of the contemporary Olympic flame relay. Reporting for the first time on years of intensive ethnographic research and organizational intervention, MacAloon literally follows the Olympic flame through twenty years of intercultural encounter, conflict, and negotiation. Focusing on the frequently harmonious, sometimes perilous encounters among Greek flame relay officials, cultural agents, and discourses, foreign Olympic Games organizing committees, and such transnational actors as the IOC and its corporate sponsors since 1984, a context is created for understanding the significance for the Olympic movement and for globalization studies of the 2004 Athens flame relay, the first to travel the entire world. Through intensive interviews and co-participations with leading Greek and American actors and the contributions of young Greek researchers who worked backstage on the relay, Bearing Light demonstrates how culturally parochial the managerial regime of "world’s best practices" often turns out to be and yet how inescapable it has become for those who wish to communicate across cultural and political boundaries. This dilemma, the contributors argue, constitutes the practical form in which the struggle to preserve a sense of "Olympism" and "the Olympic Movement" against the demands and prerogatives of today’s Olympic sports industry is being chiefly fought out. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society
Download or read book Butterfly written by Yusra Mardini and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United Kingdom by Bluebird, an imprint of Pan Macmillan"--T.p. verso.
Book Synopsis The Olympic Experience in Your School by : Sarah Kartchner Clark
Download or read book The Olympic Experience in Your School written by Sarah Kartchner Clark and published by Teacher Created Resources. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ages 9 to 12 years. Explore the Olympic Games with lessons that cover all area of the school curriculum. Students become "Olympic Scouts" who work their way through different tasks. Culminating in a classroom Olympic Games.
Book Synopsis My Story: Berlin Olympics (reloaded look) by : Vince Cross
Download or read book My Story: Berlin Olympics (reloaded look) written by Vince Cross and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience history first-hand with My Story! My Story: Berlin Olympics winds the clock back to 1936, the year the Olympics took place in Nazi Germany. London-born Eleanor Rhys Davies's dream comes true when she is selected to represent Britain as a swimmer. But Berlin under Hitler can be a hostile place, and Eleanor is witness to the murmurings that will finally erupt into WWII.
Download or read book The Power of Story written by Jim Loehr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement, examines the way we tell stories about ourselves to ourselves and, most importantly, the way we can change those stories to transform our business and personal lives. "Your story is your life," says Loehr. As human beings, we continually tell ourselves stories—of success or failure; of power or victimhood; stories that endure for an hour, or a day, or an entire lifetime. We have stories about our work, our families and relationships, our health; about what we want and what we're capable of achieving. Yet, while our stories profoundly affect how others see us and we see ourselves, too few of us even recognize that we're telling stories, or what they are, or that we can change them—and, in turn, transform our very destinies. Telling ourselves stories provides structure and direction as we navigate life's challenges and opportunities, and helps us interpret our goals and skills. Stories make sense of chaos; they organize our many divergent experiences into a coherent thread; they shape our entire reality. And far too many of our stories, says Loehr, are dysfunctional, in need of serious editing. First, he asks you to answer the question, "In which areas of my life is it clear that I cannot achieve my goals with the story I've got?" He then shows you how to create new, reality-based stories that inspire you to action, and take you where you want to go both in your work and personal life. For decades, at the Human Performance Institute, Loehr has been examining the power of story to increase engagement and productivity, and Fortune 500 companies have paid millions to send employees to his program, in which he applies the principles and methods that he now offers in this book. Global business leaders, world-class athletes, military special forces, and thousands of individuals from every walk of life have sought out and benefited from his life-altering insight and expertise. Our capacity to tell stories is one of our profoundest gifts. Loehr's approach to creating deeply engaging stories will give you the tools to wield the power of storytelling and forever change your business and personal life.
Book Synopsis Running for My Life by : Lopez Lomong
Download or read book Running for My Life written by Lopez Lomong and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running for My Life is not a story about Africa or track-and-field athletics. It is about outrunning the devil and achieving the impossible; it is about faith, diligence, and the desire to give back. It is the American dream come true and a stark reminder that saving one can help save thousands more. In this heart-wrenching story, you’ll learn about Lopez Lomong’s harrowing kidnapping at the age of six, becoming one of the Lost Boys of Sudan; his survival in a prison refugee camp and his miraculous escape; how he arrived in the U.S. through the Unaccompanied Refugee Minor program; and Lomong’s journey from high-school track star to U.S. Olympic team captain. Lopez Lomong chronicles his inspiring ascent from a barefoot lost boy of the Sudanese Civil War to a Nike-sponsored athlete on the U.S. Olympic Team. Though most of us fall somewhere between the catastrophic lows and dizzying highs of Lomong's incredible life, every reader will find in his story the human spark to pursue dreams that might seem unthinkable, even from circumstances that might appear hopeless. "Lopez Lomong's story is one of true inspiration. His life is a story of courage, hard work, never giving up, and having hope where there is hopelessness all around. Lopez is a true role model." MICHAEL JOHNSON, Olympic Gold Medalist "This true story of a Sudanese child refugee who became an Olympic star is powerful proof that God gives hope to the hopeless and shines a light in the darkest places. Don't be surprised if after reading this incredible tale, you find yourself mysteriously drawn to run alongside him." RICHARD STEARNS, president, World Vision US and author of The Hole in Our Gospel
