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Nathan, Debbie
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Fiction
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2011
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Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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English
β 981 KB
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The Commonwealth Games extraordinary stories behind the medals
β Scribed by Brian Oliver
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 892 KB
- Edition
- 1. ed
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1472907329
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
How well do you know the Friendly Games? Sports journalist Brian Oliver brings the Commonwealth Games to life with riveting stories of the athletes who have competed over the years. He delves into the best tales of the past and interviews the key protagonists to unveil the highs and lows of this idiosyncratic sporting competition.
There is the classic contest between Roger Bannister and John Landy just months after both had at last broken the four-minute mile, and the lesser-known struggles of one of Australia's greatest swimmers, Dawn Fraser, against the petty-minded and all-male 'silver spoon mob' who ran amateur sport. Read the sad tale of Emmanuel Ifeajuna, the first ever black African to win a gold medal, in any sport in any international event. He won high jump gold in 1954 and became a national hero in Nigeria, but after staging a coup was arrested for treachery and shot by firing squad.
Find out why the 1974 Games in Christchurch, New Zealand were known as the...
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