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The incredible life of an astonishing athlete Dylan Alcott has never let his disability get in the way of what he wanted to achieve. His family treated him no differently to any other kid, and it was the best thing they ever did. Growing up, Dylan always had a positive...

The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright entered the water at Pipeline, Hawaii, determined to become a world champion. But after...

The brave and inspiring memoir of one of Australian Swimming's Golden Girls, whose extraordinary achievements masked her private battles with anxiety and depression.

Burning thighs and lungs aside, cycling shouldn't be a painful or uncomfortable experience. If you suffer from numb hands, hot-spots on your feet, back pain or saddle discomfort when you're riding, chances are something isn't right with your bike set-up, your body or how they interact.

Cold War Games shows vividly how the USSR and US exploited the Melbourne Olympic Games for propaganda, turning athletic fields, swimming pools and other sporting venues into battlefields in which each fought for supremacy.

An A-Z guide of all the women who have played for Australia's national football (soccer) team, the Matildas with playing stats, biographical details, and data on every match, every goal, every coach including the thrilling performances in the 2023 World Cup co-hosted by Australia.

Munich, 1972. In the men's 400-metre freestyle race, America's Rick DeMont beats Australia's Brad Cooper by a hundredth of a second. It's the first electronic timing to deliver a win by such a close margin. The following day, DeMont is stripped of his medal in the world's first swim doping...

Go for the win! Achieve excellence and be better than you've ever been! In his years as a professional ice-skater, Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton learned to embrace the mind-set of working hard to "beat" the competition. But it seems competition has gotten a bad rap...

Now in paperback, this first global history of sports offers all spectators and participants a reason to cheer--and to think.   Games People Played is, surprisingly, the first global history of sports. The book shows how sports have been practiced,...

The name Gaze brings to mind one of Australia's most successful sporting families. For decades Lindsay Gaze has been an integral part of Australian basketball, from player to coach, from rookie to seven Olympic Games campaigns. For the first time in Gaze, discover the man, the player and the coach...

A timely and defiant manifesto unpacking the past, present and future of women's sport, from the Olympic gold medal-winning founder of The [Female] Athlete Project.

Longlisted for the 2019 PEN/ESPN Literary Sports Writing Award "Raw and poetic...lean and ferocious." --The New York Times "I swim for every chance to get wasted--after every meet, every weekend, every travel trip. This is what I look forward to and...

The remarkable and inspirational story of Oksana Masters, who was born with radiation-induced birth defects and suffered appalling abuse as an orphan, before being adopted and moving to the US, where she went on to triumph over her challenges to win ten Paralympic medals in four different sports....

The Immortals of Australian Soccer celebrates the greatest players from the round ball game to form a best-of-the-best XI from our country's storied past. It takes the Immortals concept made famous elsewhere in the sporting world and applies it to soccer. ...

The long-awaited memoir of one of Australia's most enduring and inspiring sporting icons. Triple Olympian and wellness entrepreneur Lisa Curry has lived her life in the public eye for six decades. In this very personal memoir, she shares the untold story of being Lisa. ...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021One of The Times 50 Best Sports Books of 2021Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champion tennis player, golfer, hockey...

One of the top storylines from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics was the brigade of bandits from Australia throwing down at the freestyle park for the inaugural action-sports events - in particular the young gun from Logan City, Queensland, who took the gold medal off the table before his competitors knew...

In desperation, I look up into mum's face. A small face - a loving face -- And the lights go out. Her face is the last image I will ever see in my lifetime. Blind since the age of seven, Nick Gleeson has spent his life learning to 'see' without seeing. ...

The Matilda Effect is the exciting, inspiring, sometimes infuriating and always colourful story of the Australian women's football (soccer) team, the Matildas, and their ultimately successful struggle, alongside other women from around the world, to compete in World Cup football. ...

A fascinating insight into the psychology behind elite-level sports. Mind Games discusses concepts used in sports psychology in a way that is understandable to the watching public, sports fans, and sports-haters alike. Annie Vernon draws on her own experiences as an...

In Roar: A Celebration of Great Sporting Women 2016 Olympic gold-medal winner and TV personality Sam Quek champions the ascendance of female sport and digs deeper into the lives of hersporting heroines - from Paula Radcliffe and Dame Sarah Storey to teenage skateboarding world ...

A REVELATION IN SPORTS MEMOIRS. THIS IS THE JOURNEY OF A WOMAN FIGHTING TO RUN FREE. "A compelling insight her towering resilience and determination." Telegraph, Best Sports Books of 2023 "A story which makes us all interrogate our humanity and the world we...

This is the ultimate guide to sports and the perfect reference for the Paris Olympics in 2024 - an amazing year for sport. Discover everything you need to know about more than 200 sports, including all of the Olympic and Paralympic events featured in Tokyo and Beijing. Get the...

This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood, searching for a better option in life, to Olympic champion and the world's best rugby sevens player.

In this book you will find 100 workouts that focus on improving general swimming efficiency. The workouts are specific to each of the competitive swimming strokes - freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfly - blending swimming drills and conditioning sets that total up to 2,000 yards. Each...

"If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of...

When it comes to sport, Australians are mad. Completely, irrationally insane. It's the closest thing we have to a culture. From Don Bradman's singular focus to Steven Bradbury's heroic not falling over, sport has shaped our sense of self.But how did we get here? Part history, part social commentary...

On the face of it, women's sport is on the rise, garnering more attention and grassroots involvement than ever before. However, the truth is that in many respects progress is stalling, or even falling back. Sharron Davies is no stranger to battling the routine sexism the...

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story.David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.