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S'està carregant… Olympic Follies: The Madness and Mayhem of the 1908 London Games: A Cautionary Tale (2008)de Graeme Kent
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The story of the London Olympics of 1908, which was intended to display Britain and its empire at its zenith. However, before the games had ended, almost everything that could go wrong had, the organisers were universally condemed and it had caused a number of international incidents. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Apparently, there is so much more to the 1908 Olympics than infamy; indeed, the London games had everything one needed to make it a disaster, including mad aristocrats, gold medallists who weren’t even aware they had competed in an Olympics, controversy in the Tug of War (they really need to bring the Tug of War back to the Olympics) and Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle inadvertently breaking all sorts of rules and regulations helping a marathon runner cross the finish line.
Kent does a sound job covering the Games, including the chaotic lead up, the often chaotic Games itself and the lasting changes to the Olympic tradition that the 1908 Games wrought. He also covers the some of the more surprising life paths that some of the leading figures took (Baker claimed to have taught Valentino how to kiss properly, while Douglas and his father drowned in a collision in the Baltic Sea). ( )