Complete Book of the Winter Olympics

This is the authoritative book on the Winter Games and their history and is now in its 7th edition. The book not only includes all of the statistics - results for every event since the advent of the modern games - and information on rules and scoring systems, but also a wealth of anecdotes which bring alive many dramatic moments from Olympic history and the characters of the competitors. This new edition, published in the run up to the 2006 Turin Games, has been expanded to include the results from Salt Lake City in 2002. It covers each event, Games by Games, from the four skating events which were the first winter sports to feature in the Olympics (at the 1908 London Games) to snowboarding and curling - including discontinued events. This book is an indispensable companion for all winter sports fans who will be watching the games and is a fantastic reference book for the thousands of journalists from around the world who will be covering the Games.