Olympics category: 421 books
by Kyle Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Nothing quite matches the excitement of the Winter Olympics! This book will be your guide to ice dancing. Learn about the history of the sport and get a recap on all the drama from Vancouver before the Sochi Games begin. Find out how the format is changing in 2014 and who will likely be the athletes...
by F. Kuhn, RN
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The LeBron James Ripple Effect. How LeBron changed the NBA forever. How did LeBron change the NBA? Love him or hate him he is an extraordinary basketball player. No one else has changed the NBA like LeBron James. So why is LeBron James the most controversial figure in NBA history?This has been...
Redefining ‘Realistic’
Shift Your Perspective. Seize Your Potential. Own Your Story.
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Be realistic. That’s what we hear all the time, even when no one is actually saying it.
Heather Moyse was certainly not being ‘realistic’ when she decided, at the age of twenty-seven, to try to represent Canada in the 2006 Winter Olympics just five months later, in a sport she had never...
Against All Odds
The Untold Story of Canada's Unlikely Hockey Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For readers of The Boys in the Boat, the remarkable story of the unlikely Canadian hockey team that clinched Olympic gold in 1948
The announcement was shocking—Canada, the birthplace of hockey, would not be sending a team to the 1948 Winter Olympics in Switzerland. Outraged, a Royal Canadian...
by Terry Barber
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
This biography of Clara Hughes is a high-interest, low-vocabulary book for adolescents and adults with limited literacy skills. Clara Hughes (1972 - ) was on a risky path as a teenager. Watching the Olympic Games in 1988 changed her life. She was inspired to go for gold. Although she...
by Kyle Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Nothing quite matches the excitement of the Winter Olympics! This book will be your guide to bobsleigh. Learn about the history of the sport and get a recap on all the drama from Vancouver before the Sochi Games begin. Find out how the format is changing in 2014 and who will likely be the athletes...
by Kyle Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Nothing quite matches excitement of the Winter Olympics! This book will be your guide to biathlon. Learn about the history of the sport and get a recap on all the drama from Vancouver before the Sochi Games begin. Find out how the format is changing in 2014 and who will likely be the athletes on the...
Age Is Just a Number
Achieve Your Dreams at Any Stage in Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
From legendary Olympic gold medalist Dara Torres comes a motivational, inspirational memoir about staying fit, aging gracefully, and pursuing your dreams.
Dara Torres captured the hearts and minds of Americans of all ages when she launched her Olympic comeback as a new mother at the age of...
Jessica Ennis: Unbelievable - From My Childhood Dreams To Winning Olympic Gold
The life story of Team GB's Olympic Golden Girl
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
On 4 August 2012 Jessica Ennis kicked off what some described as the greatest night in British sporting history. For her it was the end of a long, winding, and sometimes harrowing road. Nobody was under more pressure at the London Olympics than 'the face of the Games'. Yet Jessica delivered the heptathlon...
Rapid Ray
The Story Ray Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
Rapid Ray Lewis was arguably the fastest man of his generation. He won medals in the 1932 Olympics and the 1934 British Empire Games, and countless races in North America. Remarkable achievements for any man – but all the more remarkable because Lewis had to race poverty and prejudice. The geat-grandson...
The Race of Truth: Kristin Armstrong’s Olympic Cycling Triumph Outside the Rio Spotlight
Outside the Rio Spotlight, #4
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
At 43 years old, Kristin Armstrong might have had no business competing in a cycling time trial against the young international talent that surrounded her at the Rio Olympics. As she competed to become the oldest cyclist to win and to make it a record third gold medal, she faced many challenges: a...
Twin Ambitions - My Autobiography
The story of Team GB's double Olympic champion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
4 August, 2012. Super Saturday. On the most electric night in the history of British sport, Mo Farah braved the pain and punishment to seize Olympic gold in the 10,000m - and in the process went from being a talented athlete to a national treasure. Seven days later, Mo seized his second gold at the...
The Second Mark
Courage, Corruption, and the Battle for Olympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
It was billed as the greatest event in the history of pair skating: three of the best teams of all time battling for Olympic gold on one night in Salt Lake City. Technical ability was approximately equal. It was the artistic merit score that would decide the gold medal -- the second mark.
Representing...
Wind Driven
The Barbara Kendall Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
**Inspiring story of how a New Zealand woman, four-time Olympic windsurfing champion got to the top - and stayed there.**Barbara Kendall is one of New Zealand's most successful Olympians and also one of its best-lovedathletes. In 2008 she went to her fifth Olympics, having previously won gold at the...