The origins of the Olympics date back to Ancient Greece as a festival to the god Zeus but remarkably the four year cycle established then is still integral more than 2000 years later. After setting the scene in Olympia, Joanne traces the evolution of the modern games prompted by the endeavours of a Shropshire doctor William Penny Brookes and taken on by Frenchman Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He steered the modern Olympics through their formative and rocky early editions under his famous mantra " it's not the winning but the taking part". There's the one legged gold medal gymnast, the athlete whose fame persuaded a town to change their name to his and the novice swimmer who'd never seen a full size pool till he made his debut, the Olympics never fail to surprise and enthral. With more than 100 images the book focuses on people and events, the great, the good and the bad over more than a century, revealing some unusual backstories plus many heartwarming and heartbreaking outcomes that linger long in the memory. It's little wonder as we approach Paris 2024 that the Olympics still attract even the most armchair fans worldwide.
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 156 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
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978-1-80381-655-5 (9781803816555)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Chapter 1 1896 Athens 1
Chapter 2 1900 Paris 6
Chapter 3 1904 St Louis 11
Chapter 4 1908 London 16
Chapter 5 1912 Stockholm 24
Chapter 6 1920 Antwerp 29
Chapter 7 1924 Paris 34
Chapter 8 1928 Amsterdam 42
Chapter 9 1932 Los Angeles 46
Chapter 10 1936 Berlin 52
Chapter 11 1948 London 59
Chapter 12 1952 Helsinki 68
Chapter 13 1956 Melbourne (& Stockholm) 73
Chapter 14 1960 Rome 78
Chapter 15 1964 Tokyo 84
Chapter 16 1968 Mexico City 89
Chapter 17 1972 Munich 95
Chapter 18 1976 Montreal 100
Chapter 19 1980 Moscow 105
Chapter 20 1984 Los Angeles 110
Chapter 21 1988 Seoul 115
Chapter 22 1992 Barcelona 121
Chapter 23 1996 Atlanta 126
Chapter 24 2000 Sydney 131
Chapter 25 2004 Athens 137
Chapter 26 2008 Beijing 141
Chapter 27 2012 London 146
Chapter 28 2016 Rio de Janeiro 153
Chapter 29 2020 Tokyo 158
Chapter 30 2024 Paris 166
