Heatstroke: Why Canada's Summer Olympic Program Is Failing -- And How We Can Fix It

by Michael G. Simonson

Heatstroke exposes the systemic causes of Canada's Summer Olympic failures against the backdrop of the country's increasing Winter Olympic success and the meteoric rise of summer athletes in Australia, a country that used to trail its northern Commonwealth cousin.

Simonson's dogged investigative work reveals the debilitating politics bubbling under the surface of Canada's Olympic movement, as well as throughout the country's amateur...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1926645073
• ISBN13: 9781926645070
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: BPS Books
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"