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Titel: The First Lady of Olympic Track
Zustand: Neu
Subtitle: The Life and Times of Betty Robinson
Autor: Joe Gergen
Produktart: Taschenbuch
EAN: 9780810129580
ISBN: 9780810129580
Verlag: Northwestern University Press
Genre: Sports & Hobbies
Thematik: Biography
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.2014
Description: The 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam were the first in which women over the objections of many, including Pope Pius XI and the founder of the modern Olympics, Baron Pierre de Coubertin were allowed to run in the marquee track events.

Equally remarkable is the story behind the first female gold medal winner in the 100-meter dash, sixteen-year-old American Betty Robinson.

A prodigy running in just her fourth organised meet, Robinson stunned the world, earning special praise from the president of the 1928 American Olympic Committee, General Douglas MacArthur. But Robinson’s triumph soon became tragedy when in 1931 she was involved in a life-threatening plane crash. Unable to assume a sprinter’s crouch, she nevertheless joined fellow pioneer Jesse Owens at the infamous 1936 Berlin Olympics, and achieved further glory on the relay team. Journalist Joe Gergen’s The First Lady of Olympic Track rescues an exceptional figure from obscurity.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Höhe: 216mm
Länge: 140mm
Gewicht: 300g
Title Format: Taschenbuch

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