How to Watch the Olympics by David Goldblatt

How to Watch the Olympics by David Goldblatt

The 2016 Rio games are finally here! This is the one book on the Olympics you really do need.

[You] will not find a better vade mecum than How to Watch the Olympics, David Goldblatt and Johnny Acton's crisply informative guide * Observer Sports Books of the Year *
The perfect event-by-event primer for sport's biggest occasion * Independent *
A handy and witty guide to the finer points of competition * Independent on Sunday Sports Books of the Year *
A tour de force of brilliant writing, historical colour and sporting vignette * Observer *

David Goldblatt is the author of the World Football Yearbook and The Ball is Round: A Global History of Football. He writes the Sporting Life column in Prospect, teaches sociology of sport at Bristol University and broadcasts regularly on the politics of sport for BBC Radio. Johnny Acton is a writer who specialises in digging up obscure nuggets of information and making complex subjects accessible. He has written books on everything from pickling food (Preserved with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall) to the history of balloons (The Man Who Touched the Sky).

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ISBN 13	9781781251034
ISBN 10	1781251037
Title	How to Watch the Olympics
Author	David Goldblatt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Profile Books Ltd
Year published	2016-05-26
Number of pages	432
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