Jeroen Heijmans is the coauthor of Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement: Fourth Edition (Scarecrow, 2011). He has written extensively about the Olympic Games on the Dutch sports history site Sportgeschiedenis.nl and is a member of the International Society of Olympic Historians. Bill Mallon, M.D., is an orthopaedic surgeon who is in his second career, as he previously played for four years (1976-79) on the U.S. PGA Tour. During his golf career, he won over 40 tournaments, both amateur and professional. For his contributions to the Olympic Movement, he was awarded the Olympic Order in Silver in 2001, and he has previously co-authored three editions of the Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement for Scarecrow Press.
10 Ebooks par Bill Mallon
Jeroen Heijmans & Bill Mallon: Historical Dictionary of Cycling
The nearly 150-year-old sport of cycling had its first competition in France in 1868. Soon afterward, the need arose for purpose-built cycling tracks because of poor road conditions at the time. Raci …
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Randon Jerris & Bill Mallon: Historical Dictionary of Golf
Golf has been called the greatest of all games, but it has also been derided by none other than Mark Twain as nothing more than a good walk spoiled. Traditional teaching holds that golf originated in …
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John Grasso & Jeroen Heijmans: Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement
The Olympic Movement began with the Ancient Olympic Games, which were held in Greece on the Peloponnesus peninsula at Olympia, Greece. It is not clear why the Greeks instituted this quadrennial celeb …
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Mallon Bill Mallon: 1900 Olympic Games
The 1900 Olympic Games have been termed "The Farcical Games." The events were poorly organized and years later many of the competitors had no idea that they had actually competed in the Oly …
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€59.16
Mallon Bill Mallon & Widlund Ture Widlund: 1896 Olympic Games
During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celebrated as athletes broke world records and took home medals, fulfilling their Olympic dreams. The athletes’ scor …
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Mallon Bill Mallon: 1906 Olympic Games
One of the early concepts of the Olympic Games was to include "intercalated" Games every four years between the normal cycle, and to hold these Games in Athens, the ancestral home of the Ol …
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€50.99
Mallon Bill Mallon & Buchanan Ian Buchanan: 1908 Olympic Games
The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial. There was almost constant bickering among the American team and the British officials. Because of the controversies, the 1908 Olympics have been termed &quo …
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€59.28
Mallon Bill Mallon: 1904 Olympic Games
The 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis were both unusual and controversial. One of the major problems for Olympic scholars has been to determine which of the events at these Games were truly of Olympic …
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€58.94
Bijkerk Anthony Th. Bijkerk & Mallon Bill Mallon: 1920 Olympic Games
Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium, have been far from complete. The Antwerp organizing committee typed up a report of the results almost as an …
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Bill Mallon & Ture Widlund: 1912 Olympic Games
The 1912 Olympic Games held in Stockholm, Sweden, were the most "modern" Olympic Games yet celebrated and the most successful of the Modern Era to that date. Much of the success is credited …
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