Australia And The Olympic Games

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: St Lucia
Publisher Year: 1994
Edition: Reprint

Description: 540 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A book to mark the centenary of the modern Olympic games and Australias involvement with the Olympic movement. It covers the story of champions including Edwin Flack, Fanny Durack, Betty Cuthbert, Herb Elliot, Shane Gould, Duncan Armstrong and Debbie Flintoff-King. Recent winners such as Kieran Perkins, Kathy Watt and the Oarsome Foursome are also discussed. It also looks at the administrators, the International Olympic Committee, the coaches and the evolving role of sports medicine. A chronology of events, lists of Australian Olympic statistics, a bibliography and an index are included. The author is a journalist, editor, and author of eight previous books including An Eyewitness History of Australia which won both the National Book Council Banjo Award and the Barbara Ramsden Award.

ISBN: 9780702226274