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Publié par

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Date de parution

05 juillet 2011

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EAN13

9781406237047

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

High-Tech Olympics focuses on the new technologies used in sport today and how they are being used to help train world-class athletes. It also includes diagrams to illustrate how technology has been used to develop state-of-the art sports equipment and an Olympic records table to show how Olympic records have changed and some technological reasons why these may have changed.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

05 juillet 2011

EAN13

9781406237047

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

T H E O L Y M P I C S

HIGH-TECH OLYMPICS

Nick Hunter

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Edited by Kate de Villiers and Laura Knowles Designed by Richard Parker Picture research by Liz Alexander Production by Camilla Crask Originated by Capstone Global Library Ltd Printed and bound in China by CTPS

ISBN 978 1 406 22396 5 (hardback) 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hunter, Nick. High-tech Olympics. -- (The Olympics) 796.4’8-dc22 A full catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

Acknowledgements We would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce photographs: Alamy p.9(© Russell Price); Corbis pp.7(© Zhang Yanhui/Xinhua Press),8(© Bettmann),15 (© Liu Dawei/xh/Xinhua Press),19(© Serge Timacheff), 21(© Mike Blake/Reuters),23(© Jerry Lampen/Reuters), 25(© Gilbert Iundt; Jean-Yves Ruszniewski/TempSport), 27(© Leonhard Foeger/Reuters); Getty Images pp.5 top, 5 bottom(Mark Dadswell),6(Billy Stickland /Allsport),13(Simon Bruty/Sports Illustrated),12(Lars Baron),16(Clive Mason),17(Paul Gilham),20(Popperfoto),22(China Photos); Shutterstock p.11(© Monkey Business Images).

Cover photograph of training run for the Men’s Alpine Skiing Downhill Sitting event reproduced with permission of Getty Images/Quinn Rooney.

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