Author: Bill Mallon
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN: 9780824029487
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Karen Price
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
ISBN: 1644935910
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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This title describes the record-breaking athletes and teams of the Olympics. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Impossible to Break special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Olympic records and the athletes who set them.

Author: Thomas K. Adamson
Publisher: Bellwether Media
ISBN: 1681034964
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Usain Bolt sprints past the competition at the 2012 Olympic Games. As he crosses the finish line, the worldÕs fastest human sets a new Olympic record! BoltÕs accomplishment is one of many incredible athletic feats highlighted in this informative book about Olympic records.

Author: Tyler Mason
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781503808904
Category : Olympics
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Describes some of the amazing records set by athletes at the Olympic games, including the fastest one hundred-meter dash by Usain Bolt, Nadia Comasneci's perfect score in gymnastics, and Michael Phelps' eighth gold medal win.

Author: Nick Hunter
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 1410941272
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Shows how technology has been used to develop sports equipment and provides an Olympic records table to show how Olympic records have changed.

Author: Jo-Ann Barnas
Publisher: ABDO
ISBN: 1629699152
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51

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This title will give you the story behind records held by such Olympic stars as Michael Phelps, Nadia Comăneci, Greg Louganis, and more. The title also features informative sidebars, fun facts, a glossary, and further resources. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author: Keir Radnedge
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741699821
Category : Olympics
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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The Olympic Games is the biggest sporting event on the planet and has developed beyond all proportion since Frenchman Baron Pierre du Coubertin first mooted the notion of reviving the Ancient Olympic ideal in 1889. The first modern Olympics, held appropriately in Athens in 1896, featured a meagre 241 athletes from 14 countries; by the time the event hits London in 2012, 4,200 athletes from 147 countries will compete in front of a global television audience of 6.7 billion people. In the intervening 114 years, some of the greatest stories in world sport have been written, and names have been etched into sporting folklore. The Olympic Games and World Records Book is a collection of the finest achievements on sport's greatest platform and a celebration of the legends created by some of the most distinguished names in sporting history.

Author: Michael Hurley
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 141094123X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Learn facts about the Olympics and some of the greatest moments.

Author: Bill Mallon
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786440651
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celebrated as athletes broke world records and took home medals, fulfilling their Olympic dreams. The athletes' scores were available instantaneously and are now easily accessible, but what about the performance records of the first modern Olympic athletes? The Modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, but an official record of these Olympic games does not exist. This work is the first in a series of comprehensive reference works giving the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. Based primarily on 1896 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis (lawn), weightlifting, wrestling and other sports and events. Although mainly a statistical analysis, this work does include a short synopsis of the Sorbonne Congress and reprints of famous articles about the Olympics.

Author: Graham Douglas
Publisher: Crombie Jardine Publishing
ISBN: 1471615030
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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The Olympic Games: a major international amateur sporting competition that brings together hundreds of nations and thousands of athletes. This book is a collection of fun, facts and figures about the Games (from ancient to modern times) for sports lovers all over the world. "e;The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well"e; Pierre de Coubertin