The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories

The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories PDF Author: Les Woodland
Publisher: McGann Publishing LLC
ISBN: 9780984311781
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Citius, Altius, Fortius (Faster, Higher, Stronger) is the motto of the International Olympic Committee. After reading Les Woodland's "The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories" the reader might wonder if the motto should be Sillier, Loonier, Crazier. There is the gentle rower who was winning his race when he stopped his scull to avoid scattering a mother duck and her ducklings-we'll let your read the book to find out how he did-and the American socialites who showed up for a golf game in Paris and accidentally ended up in the Olympic golf contest. There was so much confusion that year they never learned one of them had become Olympic champion. Oh, and the men's Olympic golf champion had actually journeyed to Paris to play tennis. Shooting live pigeons was an event in the 1900 Olympics, but there's no mention today of the competition out of embarrassment over the 300 dead and maimed birds that revulsed the spectators. We can't forget the Jamaican bobsled team nor the Russian KGB colonel who rigged the scoring in fencing and managed to create an international incident. They are all in "The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories," along with dozens more athletes who managed to attain fame they would rather not have earned. In addition to the 50 stories of competitors behaving badly, or at least oddly, Les Woodland has sprinkled collections of interesting and sometimes improbable Olympics facts throughout, making "The Olympics' 50 Craziest Stories" fun from cover to cover. As the author of 26 books, Les Woodland knows how to tell a story and here he's in fine form. Join him in his trip to the crazy side of sports.

The Olympics' Strangest Moments

The Olympics' Strangest Moments PDF Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Olympics
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
"The most bizarre, controversial, heroic, and unlucky stories from more than 100 years of Olympic events, now updated with strange stories from Beijing 2008 and the run up to London 2012"--Publisher.

The Best and Worst of the Olympics

The Best and Worst of the Olympics PDF Author: David Kohn
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Suitable for sports enthusiasts of all ages, this book captures the triumph and tragedy of the greatest show on earth, the Summer Olympics. The 50 stories take you into the greatest moments ever from over 100 years of the Games ... and the worst. There are tales of great personal heroism and battling against the odds, of thrilling duels, of winning teamwork, of innovators who reinvented their sport, of magical nights and of performances that were simply brilliant. And there are tales of cheating and drug taking, of incredibly bad luck, of refereeing injustices, of moments of stupidity, of seriously bad politics and many other scandals. Readers will be familiar with some of the moments and athletes, but will learn more about the personal back-stories or the historical context in which events played out. Other stories will be new to all but Olympic aficionados. It's a book that can be read in one sitting or dipped into from time to time. There really is something for everyone in The Best and Worst of the Olympics

The Olympics' Strangest Moments

The Olympics' Strangest Moments PDF Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher: Anova Books
ISBN: 9781905798230
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
A collection of strange but true anecdotes from throughout the history the Olympic Games.

The Secret Olympian

The Secret Olympian PDF Author: ANON,
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408165031
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The vast majority of us can only dream of being an Olympic-level athlete - but we have no real idea of what that means. Here, for the first time, in all its shocking, funny and downright bizarre glory, is the truth of the Olympic experience. It is an unimaginable world: the kitting-out ceremony with its 35kg of team clothing per athlete the pre-Olympic holding camp with its practical jokes, resentment and fighting, and freaky physiological regimes the politicians' visits with their flirty spouses the vast range of athletes with their odd body shapes and freakish genetics the release post-competion in the Olympic village with all the excessive drinking, eating, partying and sex (not necessarily in that order) the hysteria of homecoming celebrations and the comedown that follows - how do you adjust to life after the Games? The Secret Olympian talks to scores of Olympic athletes - past and present, from Munich 1960 right through to London 2012, including British, American, Australian, Dutch, French, Croatian, German, Canadian and Italian competitors. They all have a tale to tell - and most of those tales would make your eyes pop more than an Olympic weightlifter's.

Total Olympics

Total Olympics PDF Author: Jeremy Fuchs
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 1523510897
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
An amusing miscellany of more than 100 years of legendary, obscure, hilarious, and inspiring Olympics history, including the heroes, the records, the forgotten moments, the sports themselves (ski ballet? tug of war? firefighting?), the controversies, and the athletes who achieved Olympic glory (or shame).

Olympics' Strangest Moments

Olympics' Strangest Moments PDF Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781437972566
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Recounts the bizarre, controversial, inept, heroic and plain unlucky moments from three centuries of the Summer Games. From the inception of the modern Olympic Games in 1896 to Athens 2004, the world¿s greatest sporting occasion has been packed with unusual occurrences. Some unlikely heroes have been created too, including Dorando Pietri, who missed out on a marathon gold when over-anxious London officials helped him over the finish line, and Eric Eel, the slowest swimmer in the history of the Games. Few Olympic champions were as unlikely as U.S. gymnast George Eyser, who overcame the handicap of a wooden leg to win three golds in 1904. ¿This fascinating book will appeal to sports lovers everywhere.¿

Into the Suffersphere

Into the Suffersphere PDF Author: Jon Malnick
Publisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 0719820529
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
According to the website of The Velominati, the self-professed Keepers of the Cog, the optimal number of bikes owned is n + 1, where n is the number of bikes owned. But there's also an important corollary, s-1, where s is the number of bikes that will cause your wife or partner to leave you.' Into the Suffersphere: Cycling and the Art of Pain is a brilliantly witty account of one former racer's exploration of whether cycling is the one sport that pushes its participants to the very limits of human endurance, and delves painfully into the role that physical and mental suffering can play in this elite endurance sport. Drawing together sporting history and pro-cycling interviews, and investigating current medical, business and psychological theories, this is the story of the extraordinary lengths to which minds and bodies can be pushed. Peppered with recollections from the author's own racing experiences and offering a fascinating insight into the unique allure of pain in a sporting context, Into the Suffersphere explores a side of cycling that you would never have dreamed of - not even in your worst nightmare. An essential read for all MAMILs (middle-aged men in Lycra) and fans of sports writing and smart thinking.
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