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After four years of breathless anticipation, America is finally ready for competition of brother against brother, sister against sister and we'll take no prisoners in the process. No, we're not talking about the upcoming elections (though having Bush vs. Kerry in track and field might be interesting)...it's Olympics time again! For the next couple of weeks, all eyes will be on Athens and the performance of our athletes in a variety of sports. If you're not from the States, we still wish your athletes the best of luck in their chosen competition. Our latest Reading List celebrates The Games...as well as a few other things that are bronze, silver and gold. |
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The Naked Olympics
Tony Perrottet
This is the book to read if you want to know what it felt like to be a spectator or a contestant at the ancient Olympic Games. Perrottet brings the scene to life in all its pageantry and squalor, with its beautiful bodies, rotting meat, flies, and broiling heat. Then, as now, the Games brought out the best and the worst of human potential, and blood, sweat, tears, sex, and money were all part of the Olympic experience, along with religion, bribery and politics.
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Red Mercury
Max Barclay
Atlanta, Georgia, July 1996. The Summer Olympic Games, a 17-day celebration of international peace, harmony, and athletic competition. Behind all the flags and fanfare, however, lies the most elaborate and sophisticated security operation ever mounted. More than 55 law enforcement agencies have joined forces to prevent the unthinkable: another terrorist attack like the massacre at the 1972 Munich Games. Several threats have been made - but the greatest challenge comes when the U.S. government learns that a stash of weapons-grade nuclear material has been stolen from a secret Russian atomic city. And its radioactive trail leads to the Olympic Village in downtown Atlanta.
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Made In America
Peter Ueberroth
While the athletes trained, competed, and qualified, this former baseball commissioner faced the challenge of planning the XXIII Olympiad. This is a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at the financial, political, and logistical problems he encountered on the road to the 1984 games.
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America's Dream Team: The Quest For Olympic Gold
Chuck Daly and Sachare
Olympic fervor. NBA action. For the first time in history, 1992 saw both when "America's Dream Team" took to the court and showed the world the best basketball America had to offer. Chuck Daly, the first professional to coach a U.S. Olympic basketball team, describes the road to gold, from training camp, to world competition, to Barcelona. Also on Daly's roster is a biographical sketch of each member of the all-star team, which included Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, and Larry Bird. Plus, as a special bonus, you'll hear about the phenomenon of Magic Johnson and the history of America in Olympic basketball.
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A Kind Of Grace: The Autobiography Of The World's Greatest Female Athlete
Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Sonja Steptoe
Jackie is known throughout the world as the best female athlete ever--the winner of six Olympic medals, three of them gold; the current world-record holder in the heptathlon (the women's version of the male decathlon); the one-time world-record holder in the long jump; and an All-America basketball player. She grew up in East St. Louis in a house "little more than wallpaper and sticks." Her parents were poor teenagers when they married. She made her first long-jump pit in her backyard from borrowed playground sand. One of her first performances went unrecorded because of the color of her skin. Yet Jackie not only had an innate ability to conquer speed and distance, but possessed an irrepressible personality and a deep, unshakable love of sport. As she harnessed her talents, Jackie began an amazing string of multisport successes. In the midst of it all, she would try to hold her family together after her mother's tragic early death (Mary was only 37), and face her own devastating grief. As she climbed the dizzying heights of international and Olympic competition, she would face relentless media attention that escalated when she married Bob Kersee, her enormously successful--and controversial--coach. As she reached her profession's peak, she would battle life-threatening asthma, unfounded accusations of drug-induced performance enhancement, and recurring injuries. Ultimately, she would unite her experience and determination to achieve the most meaningful victories of all--those that shape and build lives beyond the field.
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