Author: Norman S. Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781884822490
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Featuring a map of the venues, medals tables, profiles of athletes and lots of action photographs.

Author: Jeux olympiques d'été Comité d'organisation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 195

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Author: Spyridōn Paulou Lampros
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Olympics
Languages : de
Pages : 124

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Author: Norman S. Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858335186
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Michael Llewellyn Smith
Publisher: Profile Business
ISBN: 9781861973429
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Published in the year that The Olympics returned to Athens this is the illuminating story of the making of the modern games, the multinational group of intriguing characters who re-invented them and the first generation of new sporting heroes. 'On 5 April 1896 James B. Connolly of the Suffolk Athletic Club, Boston, projected himself 13 m and 71 cm through the Attic air in the newly restored Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, in the hop, step and jump, and became the first Olympic victor for more than 1500 years.' That opening sentence gives the flavour of a rich and often entertaining work of history that brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in Britain, the US, France, Germany and other western countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.

Author: Gerald Donaldson
Publisher: Markham, Ont. : I. Weisdorf
ISBN: 9781896339139
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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Author: Bill Mallon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780786403790
Category : Olympics
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Richard D. Mandell
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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The first modem Olympic Games were held in Athens in April of 1896, and this volume is a description of the sporting and festive events of that occasion, with a large cast of athletes from various countries, including a contingent from Harvard and Princeton who won the hearts of the Athenians as they won most of the first place-medals. But the book is much more than a tale of athletes and organizers. We are given the first real insight into the birth of the modern Olympic movement, and into the personality of a French aristocrat, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, whose vision determined much of the form of international sport today. The author shows that although the modern Olympics have a sentimental bond with the ancient festival, the modern Games are a product of nineteenth century ideals, excesses, and ambitions. Richard Mandell has dispelled some myths, rediscovered forgotten sport heroes, and written a highly readable account of a landmark in modern sport history.

Author: Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games
Publisher:
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Category : Olympic Games
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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