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  • Cap in Hand

    How Salary Caps are Killing Pro Sports and Why the Free Market Could Save Them

    de Bruce Dowbiggin ...
    Iconic baseball writer Bill James, in 1987, frustrated with MLB’s labor stoppages and the decline of the minor leagues, wrote that the minors “were an abomination … if you’re selling a sport and the players don’t care about winning, that’s not a sport. That’s a fraud … an exhibition masquerading as a contest.” Bill imagined a better model and proposed that, as opposed to limiting the number of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The International Olympic Committee, Law, and Accountability

    de Ryan Gauthier ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    The Olympic Games is unquestionably the largest and most important sporting event in the world. Yet who exactly is accountable for its successes and failures? This book examines the legitimacy and accountability of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This non-governmental organisation wields extraordinary power, but there is no democratic basis for its authority. This study questions the ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • Body Lengths

    de 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 four Olympics.For the ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • My Sergei

    A Love Story

    de Ekaterina Gordeeva, E. M. Swift ...
    The Olympic gold medalist offers a poignant, loving account of her life with her long-time partner and beloved husband, Sergei Grinkov, from their first introduction and successive world pairs skating championships, to their storybook romance and marriage, to the fatal heart attack that took Sergei's life. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Hitler's Olympics

    The 1936 Berlin Olympic Games

    de Christopher Hilton ...
    The Berlin Olympic Games, more than 70 years on, remain the most controversial ever held. This book creates a vivid account of the disputes, the personalities, and the events which made these Games so memorable. Ironically, the choice of Germany as the host nation for the 1936 Olympics was intended to signal its return to the world community after defeat in World War I. In actuality, Hitler ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Life's New Hurdles

    de Colin Jackson ...
    Series series Quick Reads
    Colin Jackson is one of the greatest athletes that Britain has ever produced. He was in the world top ten for 16 years, and was world number 1 for two of them. He set seven European and Commonwealth and nine UK records, and he still holds the world record for indoor hurdling.In 2003 Colin retired from athletics in front of an adoring home crowd. Then real life began. In Life’s New Hurdles Colin ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Gold Medal Diary

    Inside the World's Greatest Sports Event

    de Hayley Wickenheiser ...
    In Gold Medal Diary, Hayley Wickenheiser, three-time Olympic gold medal winner and captain of the Canadian Women's Olympic Hockey Team, reveals her day-to-day experiences of the 2010 Games, including the six-month lead-up of intensive training and pre-Olympic tournaments. She shares the life of an Olympian - the behind-the-scenes stories, the highs and lows, physical and emotional challenges, ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Second Mark

    Courage, Corruption, and the Battle for Olympic Gold

    de 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. On the second mark ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Captains of Crush Grippers:

    de Randall J. Strossen, Ph.D., with J.B. Kinney and Nathan Holle ...
    Dedicated to all who know "it's not a crush . . . it's an obsession," this book has something for everyone interested in grippers. Captains of Crush Grippers inspire passion, and this is the book that traces their history, outlines gripper basics, and gives you training information that is proven to work. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • An Inconvenient Wife

    de Katy Madison ...
    Brandi Yeats wants gold—Olympic gold, but she needs a new ice dancing partner. One man is available, but he's totally wrong for her, and he's the wrong nationality. Marriage is the only way they can compete for the same team. So what's a girl to do when her dreams are on the line? What she won't do is have an affair with the broody, but far too attractive, Russian, even if he is her husband ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Games

    A Global History of the Olympics

    de David Goldblatt ...
    “A people’s history of the Olympics.”—New York Times Book ReviewA Boston Globe Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the YearThe 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 ... Leer más

    $12.29 USD

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  • Bodyweight Exercises for Extraordinary Strength

    de Brad Johnson ...
    Spiderman, here you come: if you follow Brad Johnson's advice, you will not only get very strong in a multitude of directions, but when it comes time to move your body around, it will feel like a feather. We won't guarantee that you'll be able to master the one-pinkie, one-arm chin like Brad Johnson, but if you follow his advice, you will exceed your current best by a country mile. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD