The Olympics' Strangest Moments: Extraordinary But True Stories from the History of the Olympic Games
Author(s): Geoff Tibballs
The Olympics' Strangest Moments recounts the bizarre, controversial, inept, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the return of the games to their birthplace in Athens in 2004 and up to the Beijing 2008 games. The world's greatest sporting occasion has been packed with unusual occurrences as well as creating unlikely heroes such as Dorando Pietri, who missed out on marathon gold after being helped over the finish line by over-anxious officials, and "Eric the Eel" from Equatorial Guinea who was acknowledged as the slowest swimmer in the history of the games.
Product Information
Sports writer Geoff Tibballs is the author of several bestselling titles in the Strangest... series, on a range of sports including motor-racing and the Olympics. He also wrote Great Sporting Scandals published by Robson.
General Fields
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- : Anova Books
- : Portico
- : 0.227
- : 30 November 2011
- : 198mm X 127mm X 18mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Geoff Tibballs
- : Paperback
- : 796.48
- : 280
- : ill