The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics: Athens

by David Wallechinsky

Book Overview

The "bible of the Olympics" is the ultimate companion for Sydney 2000, with more than 1,750 of the greatest Olympic stories, as well as stats and rules for all the summer games. 211 photos. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1894963326
• ISBN13: 9781894963329
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Sport Media Publishing
• Length: 1152 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 7.2" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Nice Acquisition

It's a very nice acquisition considering the space available. It is true that you can gather much more information on a specific Summer Olympic Games website, but then you would need a volume for each edition of the Games.

THE Olympic book to have.

After a long search for an Olympic record/history book, I am very glad that I found this one. As another reviewer pointed out, one of the jewels of this book is that it list first through eighth place for all events. And it covers ALL events, including the discontinued ones (tug-of-war, croquet, the swimming obstacle race, etc...). There is also a short background history on a vast majority of the entries which is excellent. I have been extremely happy with this book and I'm relying heavily on it now during the Athens Games. I will definitely buy his next Complete Book of the Winter Olympics.

Grab this book if you can

This book gives you all the top 8 finishes in Olympic History. Most sources give you the top 3 or some give you the winners only. In Track and Field, they tell you that Bob Hayes won the 100 meters in 10.05 in 1964 in all others they tell you 10.0. Most people don't know that Tokyo used auto-timers for their Track events and you know that Henry Carr won 200m in 20.36, Mike Larrabee 400m in 45.15.

The Golden Book

At the first time (1992) I bought The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics it impressed me with details. The 2000 edition is my third and I do not have any doubt: this is the most complete guide about the Olympic History.

DON'T WAIT-BUY IT NOW

If you are interested in the history, politics, rules of the games, and human-interest stories of the modern Olympics, this is the book to have by your side while you watch the games this September.I bought this book to research a trivia question, started reading it, and couldn't put it down. Never having been too interested in sports or the Olympics, I was surprised how quickly I was caught up in Wallechinsky's book. Now, I can't wait for the games to begin.