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  Brazil's Dance with the Devil (Updated Olympics Edition) - by Dave Zirin

  £13.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781608465897 | ISBN 10: 1608465896

  The people of Brazil celebrated when they learned that in the space of two years their country would host the world's two largest sporting events: the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016. Now they are protesting in numbers the country hasn't s ... more

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  An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar - by Reinhard Kleist

  £14.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910593097 | ISBN 10: 1910593095

  The remarkable story of Somali Olympian Samia Yusuf Omar.   In 2008, 17-year-old Samia Yusuf Omar stood alongside some of the fastest women in the world on the start line of the Olympic 200m. Four years later, she boarded a refugee boat to Eur ... more

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  An Olympic Dream: The Story of Samia Yusuf Omar - by Reinhard Kleist

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  Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics - by Jules Boykoff, with a Foreword by Dave Zirin

  £11.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784780722 | ISBN 10: 1784780723

  A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic Games.  The Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-cen ... more

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  Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics

  by Jules Boykoff, with a Foreword by Dave Zirin

  
  

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  The Nolympics: One Man's Struggle Against Sporting Hysteria - by Nicholas Lezard

  £7.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780718197612 | ISBN 10: 0718197615

  Nicholas Lezard loved London. Then the London 2012 Olympics came along ...   Suddenly his beloved city was invaded by über-people in branded sportswear who had contorted their bodies into odd shapes in order to run a bit faster, or throw thing ... more

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  The World Record - by Neil Astley and Anna Selby (Editors)

  £10.00   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781852249380 | ISBN 10: 1852249382

  The World Record is an international anthology of work by poets from all the countries taking part in the 2012 London Olympics, featuring a poem from each of the 204 Olympic nations, from Armenia to Tuvalu, Azerbaijan to Turkmenistan.   With t ... more

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  Barbaric Sport: A Global Plague - by Marc Perelman

  £8.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678594 | ISBN 10: 1844678598

  Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing broadside, assailing the ‘recent form of barbarism’ that is the global sporting event. Forget the Olympics and consider, under Perelman’s guidance, the ledger of inequities maintained by suc ... more

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  Going For Gold: Welsh Olympic Dreams for 2012 - by Jocelyn Andrews, Foreword by Olympic gold medalist Lynn Davies

  £1.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781908192943 | ISBN 10: 1908192941

  What does it take to go for gold and be the greatest?  In Going For Gold, Wales's leading athletes share the secrets of their drive and determination to be the best in their sport.  Cyclist Geraint Thomas, who won Olympic gold in ... more

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  Barefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila - by Paul Rambali

  £8.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781846686535 | ISBN 10: 1846686539

  Abebe Bikila was the first African to win an Olympic gold medal, running barefoot in Rome in 1960 and again - wearing shoes this time - in Tokyo four years later. His story has never been told.  Born in an Ethiopian village, Bikila joined the ... more

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  Black, White and Gold: My Autobiography - by Kelly Holmes with Fanny Blake

  £9.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780753513170 | ISBN 10: 075351317x

  Kelly Holmes had two dreams - to join the army, and bring home a gold medal from the Olympic Games. But winning double gold in the 2004 Olympics and becoming Dame Kelly Holmes was much more than fulfilling a dream; it was a reward for a lifetime of r ... more

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