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The Olympic's Most Wanted: The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities
ISBN: 9781574884135 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Olympic history is filled with the unusual, the bizarre, and the unbelievable. The "Olympics' Most Wanted " chronicles 700 of the most outlandish competitors in the history of the winter and summer Olympics. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail the Olympics most inept athletes, strangest events, most embarrassing performances, poorest losers, most outrageous cheaters, unlikeliest heroes, most notorious disqualifications, and more. Only here will you find out that Margaret Abbott won the gold medal in women s golf in 1900 without realizing she was competing in the Olympics or that...
Olympic history is filled with the unusual, the bizarre, and the unbelievable. The "Olympics' Most Wanted " chronicles 700 of the most outlandish comp...
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What Are the Olympics For?
ISBN: 9781529230284 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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How to Support a Champion: The art of applying science to the elite athlete
ISBN: 9780995464353 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If you are contemplating working with a champion, a potential champion, or anyone with untapped talent - be prepared, be very prepared. In 1998 Sir Steve Redgrave stared at Ingham and demanded to know, "Are you going to make me go faster?" Ingham had been trained and developed as a scientist, but in that single instance he questioned everything he thought he knew. Applied science in elite sport has boomed. Science has radically changed elite sport, but one thing remains as the guiding focus - the summit of performing to your best and winning. This applies to the athlete, the coaches and... If you are contemplating working with a champion, a potential champion, or anyone with untapped talent - be prepared, be very prepared. In 1998 Sir... |
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Five Rings and One Star: From Bergen-Belsen to Munich '72: The Story of Shaul Ladany
ISBN: 9781913538620 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Training Planning Manual, Step by Step: Methodological Guide to Develop the Plan of Sports Training
ISBN: 9781985108233 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Dispatches from Vancouver: A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America's View of the XXI Winter Olympiad
ISBN: 9781475014617 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Opening with the tragedy of Nomar Kumaritashvili's death in Whistler and concluding with one final gold for the hockey-mad home country, the fortnight of the Vancouver Olympics brought out the range of human emotion -- from gilded joy to funereal gloom. In this volume, Zach Bigalke utilizes both his daily dispatches from February 2010 and the benefit of hindsight to tell the multifaceted stories of those seventeen days...
Opening with the tragedy of Nomar Kumaritashvili's death in Whistler and concluding with one final gold for the hockey-mad home country, the fortnight...
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Swimming Toward The Gold Lining: How Jessica Hardy turned her wounds into wisdom
ISBN: 9780692557594 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jessica Hardy is one of the world's greatest athletes. She's set world records and broken her own records time and time again. Then came the trial of a lifetime when she failed a drug test and was banned from Olympic competition. The rumors swarmed all around her. Critics who felt she had come too far, too fast, touted the findings as proof of their doubts. She was mocked and demeaned by the media. The only thing missing was Jessica's side of the story. Jessica set out on a seemingly impossible mission to prove her innocence and to regain her rightful status as a respected World Champion. The...
Jessica Hardy is one of the world's greatest athletes. She's set world records and broken her own records time and time again. Then came the trial of ...
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One Day in September: The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation 'Wrath of God'
ISBN: 9780571231812 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of the 1972 Munich Olympics, when 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists - or inept German snipers. This book covers the siege and massacre, the ensuing recriminations, and the launch of one of the most clinical revenge operat
An account of the 1972 Munich Olympics, when 11 Israeli athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists - or inept German snipers. This book covers the...
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Gold Rush
ISBN: 9780007411931 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Elite athletes aren't born. They're made.' Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games - as both an athlete and now as a BBC broadcaster - Gold Rush is a compelling analysis of the fascinating combination of psychological and personal qualities, as well as internal and external factors, that go to create an Olympic champion.
'Elite athletes aren't born. They're made.' Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games - as both an athlete and now as a BBC br...
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Judo: Coloring and Activity Book (Extended): Judo is one of Idan's interests. He has authored various of Coloring & Activity
ISBN: 9781537316406 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Cheerleading: Coloring and Activity Book (Extended): Cheerleading is one of Idan's interests. He has authored various of Books which
ISBN: 9781981444854 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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My Road to the Olympic Trials: the Training Log of Dan Harper
ISBN: 9798714182815 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Science of Winter Olympic Sports: An Anthology of 28 Graphs for Kids, Teens, & Curious Adults
ISBN: 9781499770209 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learning to think in graphs can be fun In this book, readers learn about sports in an entirely new way, through graphs This book contains 28 graphs of activities from Winter Olympic sports, including: Snow SkiingFigure SkatingSnowboardingIce Hockey Biathlon Graphs contain a selection of physics data including acceleration, velocity, trajectory, and force. The graphs present data which can be compared and contrasted in order to understand the basic science of Winter Olympic sports.
Learning to think in graphs can be fun In this book, readers learn about sports in an entirely new way, through graphs This book contains 28 graphs ...
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The Science of Summer Olympic Sports: An Anthology of 28 Graphs for Kids, Teens, & Curious Adults
ISBN: 9781499778533 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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She Plays to Win
ISBN: 9781637304280 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The 2012 Bid
ISBN: 9781420862270 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Redefining 'Realistic': Shift Your Perspective, Seize Your Potential, Own Your Story
ISBN: 9781775097204 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Glory of the Games - Olympic Tables and Records - 776 B.C - A.D 1948: With the Extract 'Classical Games' by Francis Storr
ISBN: 9781528712873 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Gene "Kentuck" Oberst: Olympian, All-American, Notre Dame Football Champion
ISBN: 9780692754610 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once timesaving innovations gave Americans leisure time, the golden age of sports emerged. Enter Gene Oberst. Born with a disability, it took a haphazard event involving a stray javelin to make the entire world, and Gene himself, realize he was more than a bookworm-he was a natural-born athlete. Growing up in a Twain-like, Ohio River town, the ideals of his large, self-sustaining family and their dedication to educate themselves fed Gene's persistent and diligent nature. That determination led him to play college football for the national championship, Notre Dame... Once timesaving innovations gave Americans leisure time, the golden age of sports emerged. Enter Gene Oberst. Born with a disability, it to... |
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Keeper of the Olympic Flame: Lake Placid's Jack Shea vs. Avery Brundage and the Nazi Olympics
ISBN: 9781533313515 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just three years after he streaked past the best skaters in the world and won two gold medals in the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics, Jack Shea took a principled stand to boycott the 1936 games in Nazi Germany. His strong Christian faith and his family's close relationship with the local Jewish population led him to reject Hitler's discrimination and violence against Germany's Jews. A brilliant young athlete born and raise in Lake Placid, Shea vigorously challenged the acquiescence of Avery Brundage, President of the American Olympic Committee, and others who supported participating in the 1936...
Just three years after he streaked past the best skaters in the world and won two gold medals in the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics, Jack Shea took a princ...
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