Olympic Fever

We're all cheering on Team USA as they compete in the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics! Here are some titles for a deeper dive into some of the sports and athletes, past and present.

Updated August 1, 2024
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The first Olympics Athens 1896
White, Larry
DVD
A French baron and a Princeton professor promote and provide for an international modern Olympics.
The games : a global history of the Olympics
Goldblatt, David
Paper Book
The definitive sports and social history of the modern Olympic games--by a New York Times best-selling sportswriter. A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 For millions of people around the world, the...
The boys in the boat : nine Americans and their epic quest for gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Brown, Daniel
Paper Book
Now a Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney The #1 New York Times-bestselling story about the American Olympic rowing triumph in Nazi Germany--from the author of Facing the Mountain. For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the...
Chariots of fire
Hudson, Hugh.
DVD
Story of two English runners that were both driven by different means to win the Olympics. One used his faith in God, and the other his hatred of anti-Semitism. Special Edition features include: additional scenes, interviews, featurettes, and more.

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