Steve Redgrave A Golden Age

Author : Steven Redgrave
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 056353821X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Steve Redgrave - a Golden Age written by Steven Redgrave and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2003 the British public voted Sir Steven Redgrave the Golden Sports Personality of the last fifty years. A fitting award for Britain's most successful Olympian ever, who on 23 September 2000 entered the record books as the only athlete ever to have won five consecutive Olympic gold medals. Steve's fascinating autobiography tells the story of an outstanding career in sport, from his first contact with rowing as a 13-year-old schoolboy, through his battle with diabetes and colitis. He discusses his rowing partnership with Matthew Pinsent and describes the extreme pressures and emotional conflicts that can cement or destroy a team. He speaks too of his struggle to preserve a balanced family life in the face of an extraordinarily intensive training programme and reveals both the mental and physical pain that go hand in hand with being a world champion. A Golden Age is a spellbinding insight into the lifestyle and history of one of the world's most motivated and illustrious sportsmen.

Author : Nick Townsend
Publisher : Bbc Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780563522034
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Golden Age written by Nick Townsend and published by Bbc Publications. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, Steve Redgrave has won a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals and eight world championships for his spectacular rowing achievements, and is consequently regarded with awe by rivals, crew-mates and top sportsmen alike. Now, at the age of 38, Steve is bidding to win an unprecedented fifth gold medal at Sydney. Win or lose, it will mark the end of a remarkable twenty-three year long career. This autobiography discusses Redgrave's partnerships, the difficulty of maintaining a balanced family life, and the strain of battling against the odds with the debilitating diseases of both colitis and diabetes.

Author : Steven Redgrave
Publisher : Bbc Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780563551829
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Golden Age written by Steven Redgrave and published by Bbc Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, Steve Redgrave has won a record-breaking four Olympic gold medals and eight world championships for his spectacular rowing achievements, and is consequently regarded with awe by rivals, crew-mates and top sportsmen alike. Now, at the age of 38, Steve is bidding to win an unprecedented fifth gold medal at Sydney. Win or lose, it will mark the end of a remarkable twenty-three year long career. This autobiography discusses Redgrave's partnerships, the difficulty of maintaining a balanced family life, and the strain of battling against the odds with the debilitating diseases of both colitis and diabetes.

Author : Matthew Pinsent
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446446298
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Lifetime In A Race written by Matthew Pinsent and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his last-gasp victory as part of the Great British coxless four team at the Athens Olympics, Matthew Pinsent clinched an historic fourth Olympic Gold to add to the three already won with his legendary rowing partner Steve Redgrave. In an uniquely exciting and evocative autobiography, Pinsent interweaves the build-up to Athens 2004 with the extraordinary story of his career and unforgettable partnership with Redgrave. Plucked from obscurity at the age of 20, told to partner his hero, and trained to within an inch of his life, Pinsent's story is uniquely revealing about what it takes to be a champion and the mixed blessings of success. Culminating with a nail-biting final chapter detailing the team's extraordinary victory in Athens in blow-by-blow detail, A Lifetime in a Race is a sports book in a different mould.

Author : Tim Foster
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780227469
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Men in a Boat written by Tim Foster and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Great Britain won gold at the Sydney 2000 Olympics coxless four, seven million people watched and voted it the greatest sporting moment of the year. This moment, and Steve Redgrave's fifth Olympic gold medal, has eclipsed the long and troubled journey four men made to peak at exactly the right time. Tim Foster brings vividly to life what it's like to be one of four headstrong, and at times conflicting, personalities and reveals how close they all came to implosion as the Sydney Olympics approached. FOUR MEN IN A BOAT is structured around the 2000m final itself, with Tim Foster analysing the story of the crew as they progress towards the gold medal. He also gives a compelling insight into the hardships of sport at the highest level, and what it takes for four men to come together and win Olympic gold.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rowing News written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Niels H. Secher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444312626
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science written by Niels H. Secher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Handbook of Sports Medicine and Science series delivers up-to-date scientific knowledge alongside practical applications in rowing, making it an invaluable resource for researchers, coaches and rowers of all abilities. Published under the auspices of the International Olympic Committee, in collaboration with the International Rowing Federation (FISA), Rowing: Provides key knowledge of the historical, nutritional and psychological aspects of rowing Offers ground-breaking physiological insights which can help shape future training methodologies Features a rowing periodization plan to help trainers and athletes create comprehensive and effective training programs, racing plans and tactics. Rowing brings together internationally renowned experts with experience in competitive rowing and sports medicine, making this the complete handbook of medicine, science and practice in rowing.

Author : Nick Townsend
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448136148
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sure Thing written by Nick Townsend and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: __________________ The bookies always win. But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades. In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time with a racehorse called Yellow Sam. With a meticulous, entirely legal plan involving dozens of people, perfectly timed phone calls, sealed orders and months of preparation, Curley and Yellow Sam beat the bookmakers and cost them millions. They said that it could never happen again. But in May 2010, thirty-five years after his first coup, Curley staged the ultimate multi-million-pound-winning sequel. The Sure Thing tells the complete story of how he managed to organise the biggest gamble in racing history - and how he then followed up with yet another audacious scheme in January 2014.

Author : Michael Johnson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007411944
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Rush written by Michael Johnson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Elite athletes aren't born. They're made.' Michael Johnson From a living icon of the Olympic Games – as both an athlete and now as a BBC broadcaster – Gold Rush is a compelling analysis of the fascinating combination of psychological and personal qualities, as well as internal and external factors, that go to create an Olympic champion.

Author : William Lanouette
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493052772
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of the Amateurs written by William Lanouette and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of the Amateurs is the story of the lost world or professional rowing in America, a sport that attracted crowds of thousands, widespread betting, and ultimately corruption that foretold its doom. It centers on the colorful careers of two New York City Irish boys, the Biglin brothers John and Barney, now long forgotten save for Thomas Eakins's portraits of them in their shell. If the bestseller The Boys in the Boat portrayed the good guys of the U.S.’s 1936 Olympic crew, the Biglins, along with their colleagues and successors, were the Bad Boys in the Boat. Rascals abounded on and off the water, where rowdy fans often outdid modern soccer thugs in violence, betting was rampant—as was fixing—and spectators in the tens of thousands came out to see it all. The Triumph of the Amateurs traces the sport from its rise in the years before the Civil War on through the Gilded Age to its scandalous demise and eventual transition into a purely amateur sport. In addition, Barney Biglin’s later career as holder of sinecures offers a colorful glimpse into late 19th-century New York City political corruption. Illustrated with 40 black and white and color illustrations, including Thomas Eakins's famous paintings of the Biglin brothers rowing on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia in 1872.