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How to Watch the Olympics: An Instant Initiation into the Stories, Statistics, Heroes, and Zeroes of Every Sport
How to Watch the Olympics An Instant Initiation into the Stories Statistics Heroes and Zeroes of Every Sport Author:David Goldblatt, Johnny Acton This is the one book you have to read for London 2012. The Olympics is the world's biggest sporting event - and it moves centre stage for London 2012. Yet the games the world is familiar with - football, cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports - are either missing or have a token presence. In their place are games that most of us have not a clue ... more »how to play or to watch. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes into play, offering the back story behind each Olympic sport and, by means of fiendishly clever diagrams and prose, explaining the rules and finer points. Once you have read David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton's accounts, you'll be on tenterhooks to see whether the Danish or the Koreans triumph at handball, just what the Italian fencers are up to, and if Greco-Roman wrestling really is like a game of chess.« less
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