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Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zatopek by Rick Broadbent
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
"A runner must run with dreams in his heart." Emil Zatopek. In the summer of 1952 Emil Zatopek became the king of the running world with an unprecedented distance treble at the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Together with his wife Dana, who won another gold medal in the javelin, they were the embodiment of ...Show more
Endurance: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Emil Zatopek by Rick Broadbent
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year In the summer of 1952 Emil Zatopek became the king of the running world with an unprecedented distance treble at the Olympic Games in Helsinki. Together with his wife Dana, who won another gold medal in the javelin, they were the embodiment of spo ...Show more
Forever Boys: The Days of Citizens and Heroes by James Lawton
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year 2015 Sometimes you love a football team not only for their strengths, the splendour of their play and the appealing thrust of their character, but also the haunting possibility that their best hopes may never be fulfilled. This has rarely been demonstrated so vividly ...Show more
Forever Boys: The Days of Citizens and Heroes by James Lawton
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
Sometimes you love a football team not only for their strengths, the splendour of their play and the appealing thrust of their character, but also the haunting possibility that their best hopes may never be fulfilled. This has rarely been demonstrated so vividly as by the Manchester City team who briefl ...Show more
Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain by Peter Chapman
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
In the summer of 1966 Peter Chapman was a naive 18-year-old from the Angel in north London. He was just about to enter the world of work, having flunked his A Levels and recently discovered that he would not be fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional footballer at Leyton Orient. As a young man o ...Show more
The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the 1988 Olympic 100m Final by Richard Moore
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
The 1988 Seoul Olympics played host to what has been described by some as the dirtiest race of all time, by others as the greatest. The final of the men's 100 metres at those Olympics is certainly the most infamous in the history of athletics, and more indelibly etched into the consciousness of the spor ...Show more
The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India by James Astill
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Category: Sport | Series: Wisden Sports Writing
On a Bangalore night in April 2008, cricket and India changed forever. It was the first night of the Indian Premier League - cricket, but not as we knew it. It involved big money, glitz, prancing girls and Bollywood stars. It was not so much sport as tamasha: a great entertainment. The Great Tamasha exa ...Show more
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