The Olympics' Most Wanted
The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities
Published on 1. March 2012
304 pages
978-1-59797-397-7 (ISBN)
Description
Olympic history is filled with the unusual, the bizarre, and the unbelievable. The Olympics' 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 Olympics' Most Wanted (TM).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dulles
United States
File size
16,76 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-59797-397-7 (9781597973977)
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Additional editions
FLOYD D. CONNER
The Olympic's Most Wanted?
The Top 10 Book of the Olympics' Gold Medal Gaffes, Improbable Triumphs, and Other Oddities
Book
10/2001
Potomac Books Inc
€32.39
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Person
Floyd Conner is the author of numerous popular sports books, including Baseball's Most Wanted (TM), Football's Most Wanted (TM), and Golf!, which sold more than 150,000 copies. He has been interviewed many times for radio, newspaper, and television and lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Photographs
- Introduction
- The Opening Ceremonies
- The Ancient Games
- Running for Office
- Olympic Tarzans
- Other Claims to Fame
- Going for the Gold
- Basket Cases
- Clothes Encounters
- The One and Only
- Notable Nicknames
- The Eagle Has Landed
- Olympic Names
- Name Games
- Food for Thought
- Drinking It All In
- Bigger Is Better
- Small Packages
- Life Begins at Fifty
- You're Never Too Young
- Multi-Sport Medalists
- Three's a Charm
- Medal Masters
- Great Performances
- Olympic Royalty
- All in the Family
- Love Games
- Women Athletes
- African-American Athletes
- Discontinued Events
- Weird Venues
- Not Fit for Man Nor Beast
- You Can Look It Up
- Overcoming Handicaps
- Amazing Recoveries
- Incredible Injuries
- Lucky Stars
- No Luck at All
- Fanatics
- Olympic Oddballs
- Mind Games
- Bad Sports
- Unlikely Champions
- Ultimate Upsets
- They Should Have Won the Gold Medal
- They Never Won Gold
- Forgotten Gold
- Queens of the Ice
- The Olympics' Most Embarrassing Moments
- Biggest Blunders
- Worst Performances
- Unusual Awards
- Award Ceremonies
- Multinationals
- Rules Are Meant to Be Broken
- Olympic Controversies
- Official Business
- Prolonged Protests
- Disqualified!
- Drug Busts
- Resorting to Violence
- Death at the Olympics
- Killed in Action
- Unusual Deaths
- Photo Finishes
- Closing Ceremonies
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
