The Olympics

Olympic history is filled with the unusual, the bizarre, and the unbelievable. The OLYMPICS' MOST WANTED chronicles 700 of the most outlandish competitors in the history of the winter and summer Olympics. Its seventy lists describe in humorous detail the Olympics' most inept athletes, strangest events, most embarrassing performances, poorest losers, most outrageous cheaters, unlikeliest heroes, most notorious disqualifications, and more. Only here will you find out that Margaret Abbott won the gold medal in women's golf in 1900 without realizing she was competing in the Olympics or that American Fred Lorz rode in a car for eleven of the twenty-six miles of the 1904 marathon. American tennis player Marion Jones won a bronze medal at the 1900 games without winning a match. Stella Walsh, 1932 gold medalist in the women's 100-meter dash, was, in reality, a man. All this and more can be found in THE OLYMPICS' MOST WANTED.

According to most accounts, the man solely responsible for reviving the modern Olympic Games was Baron Pierre de Coubertin. Now, in The Modern Olympics, David C. Young challenges this view, revealing that Coubertin was only the last and most successful of many contributors to the dream of the modern Olympics. Young reconstructs the fascinating and almost unknown history of the Olympic revival movement in the nineteenth century, including two long-forgotten Olympiads--one in London in 1866 and another in Athens in 1870. He traces the idea for the modern Olympics back to an obscure Greek poet in 1833 and follows the sinuous tale to a small village in England, where W. P. Brookes held local Olympiads, founded the British Olympic Committee, and told Coubertin about his vision of an international Olympics, laying the groundwork for Olympiad I and all the Olympic Games held thereafter.

Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics - Australia's second Winter Olympics was in 1952 at Oslo, Norway. It was 16 years since Australia's last Winter Olympics, as the 1940 and 1944 Winter Olympics were cancelled, and Australia did not compete in the 1948 Winter Olympics.

Canada at the Summer Olympics - Canada has competed at 23 Summer Olympics edition, missing only the inaugural 1896 Summer Olympics and the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics. The nation made its debut at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

Sweden at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Sweden will participate at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino trying to win their first gold medal since the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer. Despite the lack of success in recent Olympics, Sweden are seventh on the all-time ranking of gold medals in the Olympics, with 39 golds, and the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport have cited Swedish athletes and teams as among the favorites in twelve events "Quindici sport in cerca di podio" (10 January 2006), La Gazzetta dello ...

Canada at the 1900 Summer Olympics - The 1900 Summer Olympics were the first Olympics at which a Canadian athlete participated. Two Canadians entered, though national teams as they are now were not introduced until later Olympics.

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Olympic National Park - Olympic National Park White Goats, White Lies: The Abuse of Science in Olympic National Park by R. Lee Lyman, Although mountain goats are native to the Cascade range, they do not appear to have been present in Washington states's Olympic Mountains during historic times. Wildlife managers introduced goats in small numbers in what soon became Olympic National Park in 1925 olympic national park and sporadically thereafter for the next twenty years. According to a 1981 statement by the National Park ...

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