The Guinness Olympics Fact Book

Author : Stan Greenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851129563
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guinness Olympics Fact Book written by Stan Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Olympic facts, records, statistics and trivia, including detailed summaries of events at every summer and winter Games, final medal tables from each venue, event-by-event lists of every medal ever awarded and full records of each country's participation.

Author : Stan Greenberg
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780851122731
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guinness Book of Olympics written by Stan Greenberg and published by Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on the Olympic competitions and medal winners in swimming, ice hockey, boxing, speed skating, gymnastics, and other sports

Author : Stan Greenberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780851126395
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guinness Book of Olympic Facts and Feats written by Stan Greenberg and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a full results history of each Olympic sport, from athletics to yachting, including every medal winner in the history of the games, this book takes a look at the ancient games and future celebrations, such as Sydney 2000

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476609500
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1896 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celebrated as athletes broke world records and took home medals, fulfilling their Olympic dreams. The athletes' scores were available instantaneously and are now easily accessible, but what about the performance records of the first modern Olympic athletes? The Modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, but an official record of these Olympic games does not exist. This work is the first in a series of comprehensive reference works giving the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. Based primarily on 1896 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis (lawn), weightlifting, wrestling and other sports and events. Although mainly a statistical analysis, this work does include a short synopsis of the Sorbonne Congress and reprints of famous articles about the Olympics.

Author : John Grasso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442248602
Total Pages : 907 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement written by John Grasso and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 907 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celebration in the form of an athletic festival. The recorded history of the Ancient Olympic Games begins in 776 B.C., although it is suspected that the Games had been held for several centuries by that time. The Games were conducted as religious celebrations in honor of the god Zeus, and it is known that Olympia was a shrine to Zeus from about 1000 B.C. In modern time The Olympic Movement attempts to bring all the nations of the world together in a series of multisport festivals, the Olympic Games, seeking to use sport as a means to promote internationalism and peace. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of The Olympic Movement covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1000 cross-referenced entries on the history, philosophy, and politics of the Olympics, major organizations, the various sports, the participating countries, and especially the athletes. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about The Olympic Movement.

Author : Martin Connors
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Factbook written by Martin Connors and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the same breadth of information offered in The Olympics Factbook--licensed by the US Olympic Committee and issued to every 1992 Winter American Olympian--this all-new guide launches the reader into February, 1994, with facts, stats, rules, and profiles of the athletes. 100 photos.

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621616
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1920 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, have been far from complete. The Antwerp organizing committee typed up a report of the results almost as an afterthought because it was so financially strapped after the games. For some events only the medalists are listed, with little, if any, additional information. Very few copies were ever produced, and those few copies were in French. The seventh in a series on the early Olympics, this work fills a gap in the recording of early Olympics history by providing complete results for all competitors and all events (except for shooting, which has only partial information available). In virtually all cases, a 1920 source has been used in preference to a more modern source of information, and all details have been fully researched in contemporary newspapers, journals, and magazines and checked for accuracy by experts on various sports from all over the world.

Author : Bill Mallon
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786489529
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 1900 Olympic Games written by Bill Mallon and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed "The Farcical Games." The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had no idea that they had actually competed in the Olympics. They only knew that they had competed in an international sporting event in Paris in 1900. No official records of the 1900 Olympics exist. Based primarily on 1900 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are compiled herein for all of the 1900 Olympic events, including archery, track and field, cricket, equestrian, fencing, soccer, pelota basque, water polo, and rowing, among other sports.

Author : Martin Connors
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympics Factbook written by Martin Connors and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opslagsværk der dækker til og med 1988-legene

Author : Marie J. MacNee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Olympic Factbook written by Marie J. MacNee and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first edition of the Olympic Factbook that is exclusively devoted to those games played in warm weather or indoors. The Factbook profiles the atheletes to watch in 1996 and additionally, reports on atheletes who have passed into Olympic legend. The Factbook is one convenient reference source to turn to before, during, or after the competitions, or whenever you feel like looking up the facts.