
The Olympic's Most Wanted?
The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities
FLOYD D. CONNER(Author)
Potomac Books Inc (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 1. October 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-57488-413-5 (ISBN)
Description
Olympic history is filled with the unusual, the bizarre, and the unbelievable. The Olympic's Most Wanted (TM) chronicles 700 of the most outlandish competitors in the history of the winter and summer Olympics. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail the Olympics' most inept athletes, strangest events, most embarrassing performances, poorest losers, most outrageous cheaters, unlikeliest heroes, most notorious disqualifications, and more. Only here will you find out that Margaret Abbott won the gold medal in women's golf in 1900 without realizing she was competing in the Olympics or that American Fred Lorz rode in a car for eleven of the twenty-six miles of the 1904 marathon. American tennis player Marion Jones won a bronze medal at the 1900 games without winning a match. Stella Walsh, 1932 gold medalist in the women's 100-meter dash, was, in reality, a man. All this and more can be found in The Olympic's Most Wanted (TM).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dulles
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 204 mm
Width: 127 mm
Weight
286 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57488-413-5 (9781574884135)
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Floyd Conner
The Olympics' Most Wanted
The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities
E-Book
03/2012
Potomac Books Inc
€7.49
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Person
FLOYD CONNER is the author of many popular sports books and is the creator of The Only Golf Calendar. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.