London 2012 Olympic Games
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Author | : Hattie Hartman |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781119992998 |
A study of the design and construction of the London 2012 Olympic sites.
Author | : Sebastian Coe |
Publisher | : London 2012 |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9781847329240 |
The official London 2012 Olympic Games preview book, packed with features on all of the Games events, star athletes, venues, and stadiums Filled with expert and authoritative analysis by some of the world's leading sports writers, this stunning illustrated guide to the world's greatest sporting event is essential reading for sports aficionados everywhere. Packed with glorious photography and analysis of the star athletes and their prospects at the Games, this authoritative and comprehensive preview of the 30th Olympiad features a guide to each of the Olympic Games sports and venues, a brief history of the Games, and the competition schedule to ensure readers won't miss a moment of the action. Whether watching the Games live in London or from the comfort of one's own living room, this is the definitive resource.
Author | : Tom Knight |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2012-10-22 |
Genre | : Olympic Games |
ISBN | : 9781118378540 |
A limited, leather bound , individually numbered edition of the magnificent official celebration of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A glorious keepsake of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, full of unforgettable images, powerful quotes and fascinating statistics. It traces the whole incredible story, from early preparation through the creation of the Olympic Park, the Torch Relay and the innovative Cultural Olympiad. It explores both Games in detail, revealing how record–breaking athletes, spectators, volunteers and locals have all made London 2012 their own. Beautifully designed and featuring the Games′ most evocative photography and a foreword by Sebastian Coe KBE, London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games: The Commemorative Book captures the magical atmosphere of a once in a lifetime event. Only 2012 have been produced and will only be available for sale until the end of the year.
Author | : Janie Hampton |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1781310017 |
‘An enthralling account.’ —Independent ‘A fascinating book … researched with an awesome thoroughness.’ —Daily Telegraph ‘Hampton’s excellent book should be compulsory reading for everyone involved in the 2012 London Olympics.’ —Daily Mail Critic’s Choice The budget for the 2012 Olympic village alone is already a billion pounds short. The likelihood of corporate sponsorship recedes with every day of the credit crunch. How on earth are we going to match the opening and closing ceremonies of Beijing, let along top them? Fortunately, London has been through just such hard times before in the run-up to an Olympics, and in 1948 it showed just how to run a fantastic Games on a tiny budget – indeed, make them all the better for it. Janie Hampton’s book about the last time the Olympics came to London is a tale of female competitors sewing their own kit, teams ferried to the Games on red London buses and billeted in Spartan hostels or even army camps, and the main stadium being hastily cleared of greyhound racing to allow the athletics to take place. The total budget was £760,000, great athletes like Emil Zatopek and Fanny Blankers-Koen thrilled the crowds, and at the end a profit was turned! This is a book that becomes more relevant and ironically entertaining every day nearer to 2012.
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Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Olympic Games |
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Packed with glorious photography and expert analysis of the star athletes and their prospects, this is an authoritative and comprehensive preview of the 30th Olympiad. It features a guide to each of the sports and venues, a brief history of the Games and the competition schedule to ensure you don't miss a moment.
Author | : Benson Bobrick |
Publisher | : Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0375872523 |
A history of the Olympic Games, starting with their inception in Ancient Greece and leading up to the 1936 games in Nazi Berlin.
Author | : Phil Cohen |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2017-09-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137489472 |
This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise. Cohen and Watt consider the lessons that can be learnt from the London experience and aptly apply them other host cities, specifically Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. The Olympics are often described as a ‘mega-event’ in a way that assumes the host cities have no other existence outside, before or beyond the contexts imposed by the Games themselves. In terms of regeneration, the London 2012 Olympics promised to trigger a mega-regeneration project that was different to what had come before. This time the mistakes of other large-scale projects like London Docklands and Canary Wharf would be put right: top-down planning would be replaced by civic participation, communication and ‘the local’. This edited collection questions how far the 2012 London legacy really is different. In so doing, it brings fresh evidence, original insights and new perspectives to bear on the post-Olympics debate. A detailed and well-researched study, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban geography, sociology, urban planning, and sports studies.
Author | : Summer Olympic Games Organizing Committee |
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Author | : David Miller |
Publisher | : Mainstream Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Olympic Games |
ISBN | : 9781845966119 |
London 2012: The Official History of the Olympic Games and the IOC 1894-2012 is a dramatic account of the history of the world's foremost sporting spectacle. It is the lavishly illustrated story of the re-creation of the Olympic Games by Pierre de Coubertin, of the often controversial fortunes of the governing body, which was formed in 1894, and of the highs and lows of the Olympics themselves since the first Games in 1896. It also tells the stories of the historic competitors--from Spyridon Louis (the inaugural marathon winner) and such heroes as Jim Thorpe, Paavo Nurmi, Sonja Henie, Jesse Owens, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Emil Zatopek, Herb Elliott, Kip Keino, Mark Spitz, Franz Klammer, Sebastian Coe and Carl Lewis through to Hicham El Guerrouj, Michael Phelps and Sun-Yu Jin. Each chapter begins with a personal reminiscence by either a famous champion or a notable IOC figure. Detailed background is provided to the many crises: the Nazi Games of 1936; the massacre at Mexico City in 1968; the terrorist slaughter of Israelis at the 1972 Munich Games; the boycotts; the advent of professionals from 1988; and the Ben Johnson scandal and the ongoing threat of drug abuse. As the sporting world awaits, with eager expectation, the 2012 Games in London, this book gives an unparalleled account of the Olympics story from its beginnings in Athens 1894 to the build-up to the Games in London.