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  • Inside the Beijing Olympics

    by Jeff Ruffolo ...
    As the only American in the senior management team of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games, Jeff Ruffolo takes you behind the scenes and into a world no one has ever before witnessed. This remarkable, first-person account of the Beijing Summer Olympic Games is a riveting narrative taking you inside the greatest Olympics ever!This true story recounts the author's effort to perfect the broadcasting ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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

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    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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  • No Limits

    The Will to Succeed

    by Michael Phelps, Alan Abrahamson ...
    Fresh from his triumphant and extraordinary achievement at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Michael Phelps—up from working-class, born-in-the-USA roots—shows us the secrets to his remarkable success—from training to execution.For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress from teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens. Now he’s a living Olympic legend in Beijing with a ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Games

    Australia at the 1936 Nazi Olympics

    by Larry Writer ...
    Shortlisted for the 2015 William Hill Australian Sports Book of the Year AwardThis is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics in Berlin. Believing sporting competition was the best antidote to tyranny, they put their qualms on hold. Anything to be part of the greatest show on earth.Dangerous Games drops us into a front row seat ... Read more

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  • The John Carlos Story

    The Sports Moment That Changed the World

    by Dave Zirin, John Carlos ...
    "A powerful and poignant memoir" of an African American athlete who defied the establishment—decades before Colin Kaepernick (Cornel West, New York Times–bestselling author of Race Matters).An NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work—Biography/AutobiographyJohn Carlos was a bronze medalist in the two hundred-meter race at the 1968 Olympics, but he is remembered for more than his ... Read more

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  • Yuna Kim: Ice Queen

    SkateStars Volume 2

    by Christine Dzidrums ...
    Series series SkateStars
    Meet figure skating's biggest star: Yuna Kim. The Korean trailblazer produced two legendary performances at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games to win the gold medal in convincing fashion. Yuna Kim: Ice Queen, the second book in the SkateStars series, uncovers the compelling story of how the beloved figure skater overcame poor training conditions, various injuries and numerous other obstacles to ... Read more

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  • Eric Liddell: Humility

    by Fritz Knapp ...
    Series series Sports Virutes
    As part of the acclaimed Sports Virtues series, Eric Liddell: Humility discusses the struggles and triumphs of Eric Liddell's life. As with each story in the Sports Virtues series, this book assigns a virtue to a celebrated athlete or coach, and uses that person's story to help the reader achieve that virtue for him or herself.What emerges after reading these stories is not only a greater ... Read more

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  • The Olympics Beat: A Spectator's Memoir of Beijing

    by Shannon Young ...
    The drama, the variety, the spectacle - Shannon can't get enough of it. She is an American student who has always been fascinated by the Olympic Games; her father has a lifelong love affair with China. They team up for the Beijing games and the adventure of a lifetime. Without the filter of a small screen, Shannon and her father are hypnotized by the passion of a great nation unveiling itself to ... Read more

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  • MILO: A Journal for Serious Strength Athletes, March 2011, Vol. 18, No. 4

    by Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D. ...
    Cover: With a gritty effort, North Korea's Pang Kum Chol managed to save this 192-kg squat jerk. This was the editor's choice of Best Lift at the 2010 Asian Games.PeopleKarl Norberg: World's Strongest Senior by Jim SchmitzTrainingDon't Get a Headache over Squats by William L. Crawford, M.D.Simplify for Results by Dr. Ken E. LeistnerIron Masters: Crazy Workouts by Steve JustaMy... ... Read more

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  • No Limits: The Amazing Life Story of Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele, Canada's Olympian Skiing Pioneers

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    There was never anyone like the Wurtele twins in Alpine skiing: identical in looks, different in attitude, unbeatable on the slopes.  Now, with author Byron Rempel's unprecedented access to all Rhona and Rhoda Wurtele's memorabilia and scrapbooks, this entertaining book reveals the full story of "Canada's Terrific Twins". From their pioneering steps in women's sports to their heli-skiing exploits ... Read more

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  • Something in the Air

    American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics

    by Richard Hoffer ...
    In the tradition of Seabiscuit and The Summer of ’49, a gripping sports narrative that brilliantly tells the amazing individual stories of the unforgettable athletes who gathered in Mexico City in a year of dramatic upheaval.The 1968 Mexico City Olympics reflected the spirit of their revolutionary times. Richard Hoffer’s Something in the Air captures the turbulence and offbeat heroism of that ... Read more

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  • Onward to the Olympics

    Historical Perspectives on the Olympic Games

    Edited by Gerald P. Schaus, Stephen R. Wenn ...
    The Olympic Games have had two lives—the first lasted for a millennium with celebrations every four years at Olympia to honour the god Zeus. The second has blossomed over the past century, from a simple start in Athens in 1896 to a dazzling return to Greece in 2004. Onward to the Olympics provides both an overview and an array of insights into aspects of the Games’ history. Leading North American ... Read more

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