The Games 2024

Discover books to get you into the spirit of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games (26 July to 11 August) & Paralympic Games (28 August to 8 September).

Updated July 28, 2024
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Finish first : winning changes everything
Hamilton, Scott
Paper Book
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...
Games People Played: A Global History of Sport
Vamplew, Wray.
Paper Book
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,...
Little wonder : the extraordinary story of Lottie Dod, the world's first female sports superstar
Abramsky, Sasha
Paper Book
A groundbreaking biography of the world's first female sports superstar, the pioneering and uncompromising Lottie Dod. "Eighty-five years before Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs fought the 'battle of the sexes,' a Victorian teenager showed what women could do . . ....
Swimming Pretty : The Untold Story of Women in Water
Valosik, Vicki
Paper Book
"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...

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