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Book Synopsis What Are the Winter Olympics? by : Gail Herman
Download or read book What Are the Winter Olympics? written by Gail Herman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grab your skis, ice skates, and snowboard and learn how the Winter Olympic Games became a worldwide phenomenal event watched by millions. Although fans the world over have been fascinated by the modern Summer Olympics since 1896, the Winter Olympics didn't officially begin until 1924. The event celebrates cold-weather sports, displaying the talents of skiers, ice skaters, hockey players, and, most recently, snowboarding. Like its summer counterpart, the Winter Games are dedicated to bringing together the world's top athletes to honor their talents and see who gets to stand on the medal podium. Gail Herman covers it all in a wonderful read--the highs, such as the 1980 US hockey team's unexpected gold medal grab, as well as the lows, including the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan figure-skating scandal in 1994. Includes 80 black-and-white illustrations and a 16-page photo insert.
Book Synopsis The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics by : David Wallechinsky
Download or read book The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics written by David Wallechinsky and published by Amazon Difital Services LLC - Kdp Print Us. This book was released on 2014 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in anticipation of the 2014 Sochi Games, The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics has been expanded to include the rules and scoring for all the upcoming events. The book also looks at the history of each Olympic event from inception to the present day, including discontinued events and the four skating events first featured, before the creation of the Winter Olympics, in the 1908 London Summer Olympics. From speed skating to snowboarding, bobsled to ice hockey, the book gives the medals tables, timings, distances, and scores. But much more than a statistical compendium, the book also offers an abundance of Winter Olympic history, anecdotes, and lore, as authors David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky bring alive the most dramatic moments from the Games and celebrating the many extraordinary individuals who have competed."--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Winter Olympics by : Nick Hunter
Download or read book The Winter Olympics written by Nick Hunter and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was the first Winter Olympic gold medalist? Who is ôthe Flying Tomatoö? Which sports are part of the Winter Paralympics? Get set for one of the worldÆs greatest sporting events with this fact-packed unofficial guide to the Winter Olympics. Meet the greatest stars on snow and ice, and discover the fast-paced sports that make this one of the worldÆs most exciting sports events. Book jacket.
Book Synopsis Snowball's Chance by : David C. Antonucci
Download or read book Snowball's Chance written by David C. Antonucci and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book devoted solely to chronicling the historic VIII Olympic Winter Games at Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe.
Book Synopsis The Winter Olympics by : Larry R. Gerlach
Download or read book The Winter Olympics written by Larry R. Gerlach and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the 2002 Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, ten highly regarded Olympic historians presented a series of lectures on the politics, history, and controversies surrounding the winter games. Those lectures are collected in The Winter Olympics, offering readers fascinating insights into issues of gender, amateurism, commercialism, ceremony, and more over the one hundred years of Winter Olympics history. It also includes a survey of the Salt Lake Winter Games. The only volume available that explores the winter games as a whole, The Winter Olympics is invaluable reading for understanding the movements' roots as well as the contemporary issues surrounding the Games.
Download or read book Freeze Frame written by Sue Macy and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights in the history of the Winter Olympics from their inception in 1924 to today, including profiles of the Olympic athletes and information on the lesser-known winter sports. Also includes an Olympic almanac with information about each Olympiad.
Book Synopsis Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event by : Arne Martin Klausen
Download or read book Olympic Games as Performance and Public Event written by Arne Martin Klausen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how the winter games related to Norwegian culture and ethos.
Book Synopsis The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by : David Goldblatt
Download or read book The Games: A Global History of the Olympics written by David Goldblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book Review A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year The Games is best-selling sportswriter David Goldblatt’s sweeping, definitive history of the modern Olympics. Goldblatt brilliantly traces their history from the reinvention of the Games in Athens in 1896 to Rio in 2016, revealing how the Olympics developed into a global colossus and highlighting how they have been buffeted by (and affected by) domestic and international conflicts. Along the way, Goldblatt reveals the origins of beloved Olympic traditions (winners’ medals, the torch relay, the eternal flame) and popular events (gymnastics, alpine skiing, the marathon). And he delivers memorable portraits of Olympic icons from Jesse Owens to Nadia Comaneci, the Dream Team to Usain Bolt.
Book Synopsis A Long Shot to Glory by : Michael Burgess
Download or read book A Long Shot to Glory written by Michael Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes life is like a movie. There are moments and events in life - not often - that are as exciting and as dramatic as a movie. What happened in Lake Placid, New York in February 1980 at the Thirteenth Winter Olympics was such a time. For those who experienced it in person or watched the games on television, they remember where they were when the US hockey team beat the Soviet Union and then beat the team from Finland two days later to win the gold medal. The sports victory of an underdog group of college kids was thrilling enough but it was a win against the Soviet Union. This Cold War adversary was also the nation hosting the summer games later that year which the United States was threatening to boycott. The excitement and drama in Lake Placid gave the games a huge lift of enthusiasm and popularity when some had even come to believe that staging the Olympics was no longer affordable for many communities and that perhaps the 1980 Winter Games should be cancelled entirely. Indeed, as the games began, a US News and World Report magazine questioned whether the Lake Placid games were the "last Olympics." What happened on the hockey ice was improbable enough, but the Lake Placid Winter Games were a long shot, if not a miracle too. Winning the games had been an unlikely decades-long quest for this small town to overcome the barriers of exploding finances, environmental concerns and world politics. Few remember that the 1980 games were never supposed to take place in Lake Placid. They came to the small village because of unexpected events which unfolded and made the two weeks in the remote Adirondacks before a worldwide audience of nearly a billion viewers one of the most dramatic times in the modern era of sports, media and politics. It would not be too much of a stretch to say that the Lake Placid Games, which brought the "Miracle on Ice," saved the Winter Olympics in 1980 and greatly enhanced them for the future.
Book Synopsis The Treasures of the Winter Olympics Games by : Martha McIntosh
Download or read book The Treasures of the Winter Olympics Games written by Martha McIntosh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in association with the official Olympic Museum and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), The Treasures of the Winter Olympics Gamesbrings the glorious history of this global sporting event to life through more than 200 photographs and 20 removable artifacts. This officially endorsed volume--and the first interactive book on the Olympics produced in cooperation with the Olympic Museum--contains facsimiles of important memorabilia from its exclusive archive: founding historical documents, tickets and programs, collector cards, full-size posters, and even a personal letter from a U.S. president. With these rare treasures, fans will get closer than ever to this celebrated spectacle.
Download or read book Power Games written by Jules Boykoff and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt-Olympic movements, such as the Workers’ Games and Women’s Games of the 1920s and 1930s as well as athlete-activists and political movements that stood up to challenge the Olympic machine.
Book Synopsis A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics by : Zlatko Jovanovic
Download or read book A Cultural History of the 1984 Winter Olympics written by Zlatko Jovanovic and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympic Games. It tells the story of the extensive infrastructural transformation of the city and its changing global image in relation to hosting of the Games. Reviewing different cultural representations of Sarajevo in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the book explores how the promotion of the city as a future global tourist centre resulted in an increased awareness among its populace of the city’s cultural particularities. The analysis reveals how the process of modernisation relating to hosting of the Olympics provided an opportunity to re-imagine the city as a particularly environmentally progressive city. Placed within the field of studies of late socialism, the book offers important insights into Yugoslav society during the period, including those relating to the country’s unique geopolitical position and its nationalities policies.
Book Synopsis Memoirs of a Hamster by : Devin Scillian
Download or read book Memoirs of a Hamster written by Devin Scillian and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night 1 / My life is perfect. / I have a bowl full of seeds, a cozy pile of wood shavings, and room to run. / I'm never leaving here. / Question: Who's the luckiest hamster in the world? / Answer: ME! Seymour the hamster has the perfect life. He has a spacious cage, a constant food supply, and a FuzzyBoy 360 exercise wheel that lets him run to his heart's content. Life could not be better. Or could it? When Pearl the cat tells Seymour of the goodies beyond the safe confines of his cage, he starts to think he's missing out. And out is the new in! It's only after Seymour is out of his cage that he begins to fully appreciate his safe and cozy home.
Book Synopsis Individual Sports of the Winter Games by : Aaron Derr
Download or read book Individual Sports of the Winter Games written by Aaron Derr and published by Gold Medal Games. This book was released on 2020 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An overview of the modern Olympic Games featuring Winter sports played by individual athletes competing against each other ... These athletes compete in more than 100 events. The games showcase the strength and skills, stamina and endurance of amazing individual athletes from around the world."--
Author :Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 Publisher :Sloc ISBN 13 :9780971796102 Total Pages :430 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (961 download)
Book Synopsis The Fire Within by : Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002
Download or read book The Fire Within written by Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games of 2002 and published by Sloc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captures the magic and beauty of the Olympic Games.
Book Synopsis Snowman Paul Returns to the Winter Olympics by : Yossi Lapid
Download or read book Snowman Paul Returns to the Winter Olympics written by Yossi Lapid and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snowman Paul finds a new way to enjoy the Winter Olympics. Everything is about to change when Snowman Paul is invited to serve as a referee at the Winter Games. But, will this opportunity to bask in Olympic glory spoil Snowman Paul's friendship with Dan and all the other kids? This book teaches your child the meaning of true friendship and the importance of being true to yourself.
Download or read book Frozen in Time written by Bud Greenspan and published by Stoddart. This book was released on 1997 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pays tribute to athletes of the Winter Olympics with 56 profiles of medal-winning men and women from around the world who have competed since 1924. Each profile recounts memorable moments of the competition, with many quotes from athletes, and each contains a color or bandw photo. Includes statistics. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
