In this deeply personal memoir in the vein of Andre Agassi's Open and Megan Rapinoes One Life, the winningest snowboarder of all time chronicles her career, a story of self-growth that reveals the secret of her resilience and how she overcame crushing early failure to win Olympic gold.
Journey with Olympian and American half marathon record holder Ryan Hall as he reflects on the joys and trials of running and, along the way, shows you how he found God in every step.
Hace 30 años, cuando Ben Johnson pulverizó el récord mundial de los 100 metros lisos aplastando a Carl Lewis y se hizo con el oro de los Juegos Olímpicos de Seúl en 1988, afirmó que el oro olímpico era más importante que el récord: mientras el récord podría ser mejorado en el futuro, nadie podría arrebatarle la medalla.
In diesem Buch lässt der Nordische Kombinierer Mario Stecher seine Karriere, die 1994 mit einem Rekordsprung am Holmenkollen in Oslo begann und 2014 mit Olympia-Bronze in Sotchi einen letzten Höhepunkt erfuhr, Revue passieren und spricht von der Entwicklung seiner Sportart, von Trainern und Funktionären, von Teamkameraden, Konkurrenten und der Rolle der Skiindustrie.
Er ist Olympiasieger 1984, er ist Doppel-Olympiasieger 1994, er war zweifacher Weltmeister, er gewann insgesamt vier Mal die Vierschanzentournee - kurz: Jens Weißflog ist der erfolgreichste Skispringer, den Deutschland, Ost wie West und vereint, je hatte.
Schillerndes Panorama einer ganzen Epoche, glänzend erzähltRaus aus den Schatten der NS-Zeit, den Wiederaufbau geschafft - 1972 reißt Deutschland die Fenster auf.
Incorporating the latest research, The Victor's Crown offers an analysis of how competitive sport emerged in Greece during the eighth century BC, and then how the great festival cycle of Classical Greece came into being during the sixth century BC.
Discover the culture, scores, winners, losers and the rules of every Olympic sport in time for the Rio de Janeiro 2016The Olympic Games can dazzle us with the sheer scale and variety of its sporting contests.
A biography of America's greatest all-around athlete that ';goes beyond the myth and into the guts of Thorpe's life, using extensive research, historical nuance, and bittersweet honesty' (Los Angeles Times), by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018The uplifting, feel-good autobiography of Ben Ryan, the coach of the Olympic gold-medal winning Fijian rugby team It is late summer 2013.
WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARD FOR GENERAL OUTSTANDING SPORTS WRITING A captivating account of the Nazi Olympics told through the voices and stories of those who were there.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR The definitive biography of one of the greatest, most extraordinary runners and Olympic heroes of all time, from the author of running classic Feet in the Clouds.
WINNER OF THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDSIn the 1930s, as the world hurtled towards terrible global conflict, speed was all the rage.
London bid leader and British Olympic hero Sebastian Coe, Tony Blair and David Beckham all played a part in winning the most competitive race for the Games in Olympic history.
For readers of The Boys in the Boat, the remarkable story of the unlikely Canadian hockey team that clinched Olympic gold in 1948The announcement was shockingCanada, the birthplace of hockey, would not be sending a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics in Switzerland.
The original autobiography of Bradley Wiggins, the first British rider to have won the Tour de France and a record-equalling seven-time Olympic medallist.
The story of the fourteen men largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.
Complete with stunning, specially selected photographs, Sir Steve Redgrave recounts his favourite Olympic stories and reveals what it is that makes these moments truly great.
Exclusive to this ebook-only edition, relive the incredible summer of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games with this inspirational series of articles from the Telegraph, available as a collection for the first time.
Inspiration, something much needed in these times, abounds as Sir Steve relates the entertaining tales of his fellow sportsmen and women that spurred on his success.
In the summer that saw the first successful flight of the Zeppelin, a 140 acre site of scrubland in West London was transformed into the White City, which housed the 1908 Franco-British Exhibition - and a state-of-the-art stadium built to house the first London Olympics.
For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD.
Having grown from 390 athletes from fourteen countries to nine thousand athletes from seventy-eight countries, the Maccabiah Games (or the Jewish Olympics, as it has come to be known) continue to gain popularity.
