World of Olympics , livre ebook

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Capstone Global Library

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

05 juillet 2011

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781406237030

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

The World of Olympics looks at the Olympics from a worldwide perspective. It covers nations across the globe that come together to compete, as well as past hosts of The Olympic Games, and the motto and symbols that embrace the Olympic spirit. It also includes Fact File fact boxes, a full list of Modern Olympic and Winter Olympic hosts, and medal tallies of best-performing Olympic nations through history.

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Publié par

Capstone Global Library

Date de parution

05 juillet 2011

EAN13

9781406237030

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

6 Mo

T H E O L Y M P I C S

THE WORLD OF OLYMPICS

Nick Hunter

Raintree is an imprint of Capstone Global Library Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales having its registered office at 7 Pilgrim Street, London, EC4V 6LB – Registered company number: 6695582

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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 22395 8 (hardback) 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Hunter, Nick. The world of 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 pp.5(© Aflo Foto Agency), 6(© ACE STOCK LIMITED),7(© INTERFOTO),20(© The Print Collector); Corbis pp.9(© Gero Breloer /epa), 15(© Clifford White),16(© Reuters/Dylan Martinez),17 (© Thierry Orban/Sygma),19(© Paul Chinn/San Francisco Chronicle),21(© Peter Foley/epa),23(© Alexandros Vlachos/ epa),24(© Stephen Hird/Reuters); Dreamstime.com p.10 (© Georgios Alexandris); Getty Images pp.8(Hulton Archive), 18(Mike Powell /Allsport),27(Bob Thomas); Photolibrary pp.11(Andrew Paterson),22(EPA/Kim Ludbrook), Shutterstock pp.13(© mary416).

Cover photograph of the opening ceremony of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada reproduced with permission of Corbis/© Gilbert Iundt; Jean-Yves Ruszniewski/TempSport.

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