The 1906 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary (4) (Results of the Early Modern Olympics) - Softcover

Mallon, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786440678 ISBN 13: 9780786440672

Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2009

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Críticas:

"highly recommended"--ARBA; "detailed...offers more value and depth than the [competition]"--Reference Reviews; "this book provides numerous interesting facts about the poorly documented early years of Olympic history"--Booklist; "[an] absolute must for any library, public or personal"--Journal of Olympic History; "if Mallon has missed anything about the 1906 Olympiad...you would be hard pressed to name it. Public librarians will be particularly pleased with the exhaustive coverage offered here"--Against the Grain; "extensive research...wealth of information...an indispensable resource"--The International Journal of the History of the Sport.

Reseña del editor:

One of the early concepts of the Olympic Games was to include ""intercalated"" Games every four years between the normal cycle, and to hold these Games in Athens, the ancestral home of the Olympics. In 1906 the first, and only one, of these games was held. Occurring only two years after the St. Louis Games of 1904 and two years before the London Games of 1908, the Athens Games were considered by many not to be ""official""; social and political forces prevented continuation of the intercalation cycle in 1910 and later.Yet these Games were surprisingly successful and helped guarantee the survival of the modern Olympics.This book, fourth in the series on the early Olympics, presents all the data on 29 nation and city-state participants in more than a dozen events in the Athens Games. Scores and descriptions are provided, and many historical errors and omissions in other sources are corrected. Appendices include the published program for the Games, the actual schedule followed during the Games, and country-by country listings of all participating athletes.

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• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0786440678
• ISBN 13: 9780786440672
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 252