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The First Modern Olympics
Author | : Richard D. Mandell |
Publsiher | : Blacktoad Publishing |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780957059108 |
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Olympics in Athens 1896
Author | : Michael Llewellyn Smith |
Publsiher | : Profile Business |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History, Ancient |
ISBN | : 186197342X |
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Published in the year that The Olympics returned to Athens this is the illuminating story of the making of the modern games, the multinational group of intriguing characters who re-invented them and the first generation of new sporting heroes. 'On 5 April 1896 James B. Connolly of the Suffolk Athletic Club, Boston, projected himself 13 m and 71 cm through the Attic air in the newly restored Panathenaic Stadium of Athens, in the hop, step and jump, and became the first Olympic victor for more than 1500 years.' That opening sentence gives the flavour of a rich and often entertaining work of history that brings together the following intriguing strands: the rise of amateur athletics in Britain, the US, France, Germany and other western countries, each with its own particular stamp; the enormous interest aroused by the excavation of ancient Olympia, the site of the ancient Games; the determination of the eccentric French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin to embody the amateur athletic ideal in a revival of the Games; and a perception by politicians and the Greek royal family that hosting Coubertin's Games could help to put the young Greek state on the European map.
The Olympian Games in Athens 1896
Author | : Burton Holmes |
Publsiher | : Grove/Atlantic |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Greece |
ISBN | : PSU:000009667310 |
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The Olympics
Author | : Allen Guttmann |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0252070461 |
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Traces the history of the modern Olympics from 1896 to 2000, contrasting the ideal of the game with the often politicized reality.
What Are the Summer Olympics
Author | : Gail Herman,Who HQ |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2016-03-22 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780399542909 |
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Back in 775 BC, athletes from all over Ancient Greece came together to compete in various games. The contests were held every four years and winning athletes brought honor and respect to their homelands. The tradition of the Olympic Games faded over time until 1896, when they were brought back to life. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens, Greece, with over two hundred athletes from fourteen countries. Today, nearly three thousand years after the first Games, the Summer Olympics attract one hundred thousand top athletes from over two hundred countries. Billions of fans around the world cheer on their national teams to bring back the gold.
The 1896 Olympic Games
Author | : Bill Mallon,Ture Widlund |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2015-07-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781476609508 |
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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.
The 1908 Olympic Games
Author | : Bill Mallon,Ian Buchanan |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2015-07-11 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781476609522 |
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The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial. There was almost constant bickering among the American team and the British officials. Because of the controversies, the 1908 Olympics have been termed “The Battle of Shepherd’s Bush,” referring to the site of the Olympic Stadium. Reports of the 1908 Olympics have been rare and do not for instance contain full results for archery, track and field athletics, football (soccer), gymnastics, motorboating and shooting. A great deal of new information has been discovered by the authors, and this work gives complete results for all events. The information presented is based primarily on 1908 sources. For the first time, definitive word on the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are available for all of the 1908 Olympic events, including boxing, cycling, diving, fencing, field hockey, lacrosse, polo, raquets, swimming, lawn tennis, tug-of-war, weightlifting, wrestling and yachting, among other sports. A series of appendices include rarely seen information about the many controversies surrounding the Games.
A Brief History of the Olympic Games
Author | : David C. Young |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780470777756 |
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For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in the fourth century AD. But the Olympic ideal did not die and this book is a succinct history of the ancient Olympics and their modern resurgence. Classics professor David Young, who has researched the subject for over 25 years, reveals how the ancient Olympics evolved from modest beginnings into a grand festival, attracting hundreds of highly trained athletes, tens of thousands of spectators, and the finest artists and poets.