Jacket: As New. Hard Cover. Brand New book. 8-1/2 x 12". Review: The Olympic Games demand more from viewers than just turning on the TV. Like the athletes themselves, we spectators need to do our tr aining. We need to know the history, the events, the competitors, and the records. The more up to speed we are on them, the better shape we're in to appreciate the hoopla. . Newly updated for the gathering in Sydney, The Olympic Games is a coffee table-sized, gold medal effort that has a complete training facility between its covers

. Letting its tremendous cache of recent and vintage photos perfo rm the heavy lifting, it looks both forward and back, running the Olympian gamut from the grand and glorious to the trivial and arcane. Features a comprehensive appendix listing all the competitive events and medalists since the beginning of the Games, making this 330 page volume an invaluable reference source.

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