A History of the Olympics

A History of the Olympics
An unusual release on audiobook format! The 2008 Beijing Olympics take place in August. John Goodbody, for many years chief sports news writer for The Times, has covered every Olympics since 1964. In this entertaining and informative account, he tells the main stories of each of the modern Olympics. Here are some of the heroes and heroines who have made sporting history, as well as the main disasters and scandals that attend the world’s greatest sporting event.

• 1896 Athens
• 1900 Paris
• 1904 St. Louis
• 1908 London
• 1912 Stockholm
• 1920 Antwerp
• 1924 Paris
• 1928 Amsterdam
• 1932 Los Angeles
• 1936 Berlin
• 1948 London
• 1952 Helsinki
• 1956 Melbourne
• 1960 Rome
• 1964 Tokyo
• 1968 Mexico City
• 1972 Munich
• 1976 Montreal
• 1980 Moscow
• 1984 Los Angeles
• 1988 Seoul
• 1992 Barcelona
• 1996 Atlanta
• 2000 Sydney
• 2004 Athens
• Interview with Sebastian Coe

5 CDs • Running Time: c.6¼ hours • ISBN: 978-962-634-870-3

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