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1900 Olympic Games
Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Av Bill Mallon
Häftad, 2009
950 kr
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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 …
1896 Olympic Games
Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
950 kr
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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 …
1904 Olympic Games
Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Av Bill Mallon
Häftad, 2009
950 kr
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The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to determine which of the events at these Games were truly of Olympic caliber. The Games were included as part of the World's Fair, and every athletic contest that took …
1906 Olympic Games
Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Av Bill Mallon
Häftad, 2009
803 kr
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One of the early concepts of the Olympic Games was to include "intercalated" Games every four years between the normal cycle, and to hold these Games in Athens, the ancestral home of the Olympics. In 1906 the first, and only one, of these games was held. Occurring only two years after the St. Louis …
1908 Olympic Games
Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Häftad, 2009
950 kr
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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 …
1912 Olympic Games
Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Häftad, 2009
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
950 kr
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The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. Much of the success is credited to the influence of Viktor Balck, who is remembered as "The Father of Swedish Sports." The 1912 Olympics also …
1920 Olympic Games
Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Av Bill Mallon, Anthony Th. Bijkerk
Häftad, 2009
920 kr
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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 …
Historical Dictionary of Golf
Inbunden, 2011
1899 kr
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Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf …
Historical Dictionary of Cycling
Av Bill Mallon, Jeroen Heijmans
E-bok, 2011
1806 kr
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The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Racing on blocked off pieces of street or grass soon evolved into racing on special tracks called …
Historical Dictionary of Golf
E-bok, 2011
2151 kr
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Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in Scotland around the 15th century. However, there is historical evidence of games similar to golf …
Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement
Av John Grasso, Bill Mallon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3383 kr
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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 …
Ernest Amory Codman
The End Result of a Life in Medicine
Av Bill Mallon
Häftad, 2024
218 kr
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