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Title: HOW TO WATCH THE OLYMPICS
AN INSTANT INITIATION INTO EVERY SPORT AT RIO 2016
By: David Goldblatt
Format: Electronic book text

List price: £4.99


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ISBN 10: 1782832963
ISBN 13: 9781782832966
Publisher: PROFILE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 26 May, 2016
Translated from: English
Synopsis: Discover the culture, scores, winners, losers and the rules of every Olympic sport in time for the Rio de Janeiro 2016The Olympic Games can dazzle us with the sheer scale and variety of its sporting contests. Yet many of the games are unfamiliar to even the most avid sports fan. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes in. How to Watch the Olympics offers each sport's backstory and culture, and explains the finer points of strategy, skulduggery and skill.Once you've read this book, you'll be on tenterhooks to see whether the Danes triumph at handball, what the Italian fencers are up to and why Greco-Roman wrestling is so crucial to Kazakhstan. You'll know who invented the butterfly stroke, where water polo serves as the closest expression of warfare and how shuttlecocks travel faster than tennis balls. This edition has been freshly updated for the 2016 Games in Rio, including fresh material from London 2012 and chapters on the new Olympic sports of rugby sevens and golf. Seventeen days, 10,500 athletes, 28 sports, 302 gold medals up for grabs: the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will soon be upon us. How to Watch the Olympics is your invaluable personal trainer.The 2012 edition was Independent, Independent on Sunday and Observer Sports Book of the Year
Illustrations: Black and white images throughout
Publication: UK
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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