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Author : Marc Parrish
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Paths to the Olympics written by Marc Parrish and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Wood
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1594854149
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Olympic Mountains Trail Guide written by Robert Wood and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2000-05-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Completely redesigned for easier use * Includes five new hikes, more photos, and expanded route descriptions * "The best book for trail descriptions in the Olympics." - The San Francisco Chronicle With its moss-draped rain forests, alpine meadows brimming with wildflowers, and snow-capped mountains, the Olympic Peninsula is a hiker's paradise. Explore the Cat Creek Way Trail, a high-country route to a view of Oyster Lake, or trek along the Appleton Pass Trail where you might spy a fat marmot perched on one of the boulders along the path. This new edition of a tried-and-true classic to hiking the Olympic Peninsula contains all the facts for both day hikes and overnight backpack trips. You'll find information on 177 hikes in the Olympic Mountains and extensive material on history, geology, native plants, and wildlife. Also find in this hiking guidebook numbered hikes for quick reference; detailed information blocks for each trail; and weather information for each section of the Olympic Mountains.
Author : Robert Wood
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 9780898866186
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (661 download)
Download or read book Olympic Mountains Trail Guide written by Robert Wood and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You'll find new information on 177 hikes and extensive material on history, geology, native plants, and wildlife. New features in this updated, expanded edition include: numbered hikes for quick reference; detailed information blocks for each trail; and weather information for each section of the Olympics.
Author : Ramón Spaaij
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134904916
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Olympic Movement and the Sport of Peacemaking written by Ramón Spaaij and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport and peacemaking have evolved. It is no longer the case that the Olympic Games and war games exist in isolation from each other. Increasingly, policymakers, peacekeepers, athletes, development workers, presidents of nations and others combine forces in an "integrated" approach towards peace. This approach is located not only within the broader, historically evolved Olympic Movement but also in relation to a newly emerged social movement which promotes development and peace through sport. This book critically examines the ways in which this development is being played out at global, national and local levels, particularly in relation to the Olympic Movement and initiatives such as the biennial Olympic Truce Resolution. The volume constitutes a unique scholarly attempt to provide an in-depth comparative analysis of the sport of peacemaking in the context of the Olympic Movement. Through international comparison and empirically grounded case studies, the book provides an important new departure in the study of the social impact of the Olympic Movement and related peacemaking efforts. It discusses these issues from a range of academic disciplines, including history, sociology, political science, economics, geography, philosophy and international relations. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Author : Gail Herman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399542906
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book What Are the Summer Olympics? written by Gail Herman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands. The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over time until 1896, when they were brought back to life. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, with over two hundred athletes from fourteen countries. Today, nearly three thousand years after the first Games, the Summer Olympics attract one hundred thousand top athletes from over two hundred countries. Billions of fans around the world cheer on their national teams to bring back the gold.
Author : Ollan Cassell
Publisher : Ollan Cassell LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780692496404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Inside the Five Ring Circus written by Ollan Cassell and published by Ollan Cassell LLC. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "International Athletic Foundation for the support of the IAAF"--Title page.
Author : Don Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781437973495
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (734 download)
Download or read book Bright Path written by Don Brown and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author and artist Don Brown tells the true story of an authentic American hero: the Native-American athlete Jim Thorpe, who grew up from an impoverished childhood to captivate the world at the 1912 Olympic Games. ¿A well-organized and visually appealing introduction.¿ ¿The theme of youthful aimlessness transforming into fierce athletic resolve will draw many children to this book.¿ Full-color illustrations.
Author : Ann Simons
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Path to Purpose written by Ann Simons and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-27 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No, this book will not change your life. You have to do that. Like Ann Simons did. After her Olympic medal at the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000, the judoka started the fight for her second dream career. Without clear opponents, without applause, without a podium. To find purpose in the business world, where they are not welcoming athletes with open arms. This book will be your guide in discovering who you are, why you do what you do, how to realize your dreams. The search is often more important than the answer. Take the path to purpose!
Author : Tim Gibbons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book The Path to Excellence written by Tim Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578963327
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Trail to Gold written by U.S. Olympic Women Cross-Country Skiers 1972-2018 and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-three American women have participated in cross-country skiing in the Winter Olympics between the years of 1972 and 2018. In 2018, forty-six years after the first team competed, Jessie Diggins and Kikkan Randall won Olympic gold in the Team Sprint, in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the first Olympic medal for U.S. women's cross-country skiing. Five decades of women skiers stood up and cheered, celebrating this long sought after achievement. This book shares the collective journey of these women Olympians, with the skiers themselves telling the story. Part I combines individual stories along a variety of themes, to collectively demonstrate the challenges of competing against the best in the world. In Part II, virtually every one of the fifty-three wrote her own profile to describe her skiing career and post-Olympic life. Photographs throughout put faces with the stories and add vibrancy to the narrative. The anecdotes in Trail to Gold: The Journey of 53 Women Skiers, paint the picture of women's cross-country skiing over 50 years--a fascinating history recorded in personal heartbreak and triumph and in fun vignettes from life on the trail.
Author : Robert L. Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780898863208
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Olympic Mountains Trail Guide written by Robert L. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised guide to every trail in the Olympics, including scenic and historic highlights, mileages, elevations.
Author : Andrew Zimbalist
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815738625
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Circus Maximus written by Andrew Zimbalist and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the headlines of the world's most beloved sporting events Brazil hosted the 2016 men's World Cup at a cost of $15 billion to $20 billion, building large, new stadiums in cities that have little use for them anymore. The projected cost of Tokyo's 2020 Summer Olympic Games is estimated to be as high as $30 billion, much of it coming from the public trough. In the updated and expanded edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Andrew Zimbalist tackles the claim that cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events experience an economic windfall. In this new edition he looks at upcoming summer and winter Olympic games, discusses the recent Women's World Cup, and the upcoming men's tournament in Qatar. Circus Maximus focuses on major cities, like London, Rio, and Barcelona, that have previously hosted these sporting events, to provide context for future host cities that will bear the weight of exploding expenses, corruption, and protests. Zimbalist offers a sobering and candid look at the Olympics and the World Cup from outside the echo chamber.
Author : Lucile Horr Cleland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780846603023
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Trails and Trials of the Pioneers of the Olympic Peninsula written by Lucile Horr Cleland and published by . This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Belinda Wheaton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351029525
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Action Sports and the Olympic Games written by Belinda Wheaton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a decade of research by two leading action sports scholars, this book maps the relationship between action sports and the Olympic Movement, from the inclusion of the first action sports to those featuring for the first time in the Tokyo Olympic Games and beyond. In an effort to remain relevant to younger audiences, four new action sports, surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, and BMX freestyle were included in the Tokyo Olympic program. Drawing upon interviews with Olympic insiders, as well as leaders, athletes, and participants in these action sports communities, the book details the impacts on the action sports industry and cultures, and offers national comparisons to show the uneven effects resulting from Olympic inclusion. It reveals the intricate workings of power and politics in contemporary sports organisations, and maps key trends in this changing sporting landscape. Action Sports and the Olympic Games is a fascinating read for anybody studying the Olympics, the sociology of sport, action sports, or sport policy.
Author : Roland Naul
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136476113
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Olympic Education written by Roland Naul and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fundamental component of the Olympic ideal is the concept of Olympic education. This is the notion that sport can help children and young people develop essential life skills. Olympic Education: An international review is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of the diffusion and implementation of Olympic education programmes around the world. The book includes 28 chapters with 21 national case studies of countries on every major continent, including Australia, Brasil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, Spain, the UK, the US and Zambia. Each chapter examines the cultural, pedagogical, political and societal challenges of teaching Olympic education, as well as the national, individual and institutional programmes that have emerged. It explores key practical and conceptual issues, such as the incorporation of Olympic values in PE curricula, sport coaching and coach education programmes, while also taking into account the collaborative efforts of the governmental bodies, sport federations and Olympic institutions responsible for policy and implementation. This is important reading for all students, researchers and professionals with an interest in the Olympics, sport education, sports coaching, sport policy or physical education.
Author : Eva Kassens-Noor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136315470
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Planning Olympic Legacies written by Eva Kassens-Noor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 agendas In fact, transport dreams to stage the "perfect games" of the International Olympic Committee and the governments of the host cities have lead to urban realities that significantly differ from the development path the city had set out to accomplish before winning the Olympic bid. Ultimately it is precisely the IOC’s influence – and the city’s foresight and sophistication (or lack thereof) in coping with it – that determines whether years after the Games there are legacies benefitting the former hosts. The text is supported by revealing interviews from lead host city planners and key documents, which highlight striking discrepancies between media broadcasts and the internal communications between the IOC and host city governments. It focuses on the inside story of the urban and transport change process undergone by four cities (Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, and Athens) that staged the Olympics and forecasts London and Rio de Janeiro’s urban trajectories. The final chapter advises cities on how to leverage the Olympic opportunity to advance their long-run urban strategic plans and interests while fulfilling the International Olympic Committee’s fundamental requirements. This is a uniquely positioned look at why Olympic cities have – or do not have – the transport and urban legacies they had wished for. The book will be of interest to planners, government agencies and those involved in organizing future Games.
Author : A J Chilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Jesse and Luz written by A J Chilson and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2021, athletes from many countries will compete in the rescheduled Olympic Games in Tokyo. 2021 also marks the 85th anniversary of the story this book talks about, which is published in conjunction with the upcoming anniversary.Their paths first crossed at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. They were not teammates. Rather, they were rival athletes from different countries. One was a black man, the other a white man. Their objective was to win the gold medal for their representing country. But somehow, within the thick and ugly climate of racism, through one man's failure and the other's willingness to help, a friendship developed.This is a story of sportsmanship, of how rival athletes can set aside their many differences and get along, both in the heat of competition and long after leaving the athletic arena. This is the story of Jesse Owens of the United States and Luz Long of Germany, their performances during the Olympics, their correspondence following the event, and the friendship that was extended years later to Luz's son Kai.
