Serious Business: The Olympics (and Other Major Sports)

Updated February 5, 2026
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The games : a global history of the Olympics
Goldblatt, David
Paper Book
Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. From the ancient Greeks to today's festival of sponsors - this is the definitive sporting, social and political history of the Olympic Games. 'An excellent, pacy, anecdote-studded history of the modern Games' -...
The sports gene : inside the science of extraordinary athletic performance
Epstein, David J.
Paper Book
Is Usain Bolt a superhuman one-off? Are sports stars like Paula Radcliffe and Tiger Woods born or made? Could we all be Olympians if we trained hard enough? In this ground-breaking and entertaining exploration of athletic success, award-winning writer David Epstein gets to the heart of the great...

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