Chronicle of the Olympics

by brown-packaging (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1996

  $7.47

  For the past 100 years at regular four year intervals, the summer and winter Olympic games have taken place. Whatever political or economic crises may have occured, athletes from every continent have come together regularly for peaceful competition among nations. Only the two World Wars have stopped the Games from taking place. This book is a historical record of the modern Olympics. Each Summer and Winter Olympics is captured in words and pictures, and the volume closes with a preview of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. This includes the story of how Atlanta came to host the Olympic centenary and an introduction to the next Games. The comprehensive appendix lists all medalists since the beginning of the Games in 1896.