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By the Sword
- A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
- By: Richard Cohen
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
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By the Sword is an epic history of sword fighting - a science, an art, and, for many, a religion that began at the dawn of civilization in ancient Egypt and has been an obsession for mankind ever since. With wit and insight, Richard Cohen gives us an engrossing history of the world via the sword.
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- By Steve B. on 09-02-2023
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By the Sword
- A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions
- Narrated by: Richard Cohen
- Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2020
- Language: English
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How Far Can You Go
- My 25-Year Quest to Walk Again
- By: John Maclean, Mark Tabb
- Narrated by: Mark Englhardt
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
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Walking on the beach and holding hands with a loved one is a dream taken for granted by most. But when aspiring athlete John Maclean was struck down by a truck while training for a triathlon at the age of 22, this dream became impossible. John survived, but was left paraplegic - catastrophic for a life so full of promise. He insisted that he’d walk again, but it became clear John would need to shift his focus, and take his beloved father’s words to heart: "How far can you go?"
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How Far Can You Go
- My 25-Year Quest to Walk Again
- Narrated by: Mark Englhardt
- Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-10-2020
- Language: English
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Triumph: Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
- By: Jeremy Schaap
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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In 1936, against a backdrop of swastikas flying and storm troopers goose-stepping, an African American athlete won a staggering four Olympic gold medals. Jesse Owens, the son of sharecroppers, had single-handedly crushed Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy. The story of Jesse Owens at the 1936 games is that of a high-profile athlete giving a performance that transcends sports. But it is also the intimate and complex tale of the courage of one remarkable man.
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- By Michael Ovenstone on 16-12-2020
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Triumph: Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 24-08-2017
- Language: English
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The Race to Be Myself
- By: Caster Semenya
- Narrated by: Caster Semenya, Becky Motumo
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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The Race to Be Myself is an intimate exploration of Caster Semenya's many identities, told for the first time by Caster herself. In the book, Caster will detail what went on behind the scenes when she found international fame, how it felt to have her body dissected for the whole world to see. Caster will explore how the politics of race, gender, and sexuality play out at the highest levels of competitive sports and why she is determined to continue the fight for her and others right to run free.
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The Race to Be Myself
- Narrated by: Caster Semenya, Becky Motumo
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-10-2023
- Language: English
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Olympia: The Birth of the Games
- By: John A. Martino, Michael P. O'Kane
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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In ancient Greece and across the Mediterranean, kingdoms strive for dominance. The great powers of Carthage and Egypt look on with avarice as the might of the Greeks is spent warring between themselves, oblivious to external dangers. Year in and year out, the people suffer at the hands of their rulers and the famine and pestilence that comes with conflict. The great rulers of the day are themselves helpless to end this cycle of destruction. While life on the battlefield is cheap, the slave trade flourishes through the years of interminable battle and death.
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Entertaining take on birth of the Olympics
- By Tracey Davis on 25-08-2022
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Olympia: The Birth of the Games
- Narrated by: Doug Greene
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 10-01-2022
- Language: English
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More Power
- The Story of Jürgen Grobler: The most successful Olympic coach of all time
- By: Hugh Matheson, Christopher Dodd
- Narrated by: Joseph Tweedale
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Jurgen Grobler’s Olympic coaching career is one of legend, yet the man himself has remained resolutely out of the spotlight. Over the last 20 years he has masterminded British Rowing’s incomparable success. And when the difference between gold and silver can mean mere fractions of a second, Jurgen Grobler has consistently delivered Olympic gold through various boat classes and with an ever-changing group of athletes.
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More Power
- The Story of Jürgen Grobler: The most successful Olympic coach of all time
- Narrated by: Joseph Tweedale
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 05-07-2018
- Language: English
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Munich 1972
- Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games
- By: David Clay Large
- Narrated by: Gregory St. John
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
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Set against the backdrop of the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s, this compelling audiobook provides the first comprehensive history of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, notorious for the abduction of Israeli Olympians by Palestinian terrorists and the hostages' tragic deaths after a botched rescue mission by the German police. Drawing on a wealth of newly available sources from the time, eminent historian David Clay Large explores the 1972 festival in all its ramifications.
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Munich 1972
- Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games
- Narrated by: Gregory St. John
- Length: 14 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-01-2014
- Language: English
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Course Correction
- A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
- By: Ginny Gilder
- Narrated by: Janis Ian
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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From her first strokes as a novice, Ginny Gilder found herself in a new world, training with Olympic rowers and participating in the famous Title IX naked protest, which helped define the movement for equality in college sports. Short, asthmatic, and stubborn, Gilder made the team against all odds and for the next 10 years devoted herself to answering a seemingly simple question: how badly do you want to go fast?
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Course Correction
- A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX
- Narrated by: Janis Ian
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2016
- Language: English
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A History of the Olympics
- By: John Goodbody Barry
- Narrated by: Barry Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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This unique audiobook history of the Olympics, first issued in 2008, has been updated to include the Beijing Olympics and released to coincide with the London event. Written by the prize-winning sports journalist John Goodbody, and with a fascinating personal documentary featuring one of Britain's leading Olympians, Sebastian Coe, who is now heading the 2012 Games, this is an ideal opener!
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A History of the Olympics
- Narrated by: Barry Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 12-03-2012
- Language: English
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Made in America
- By: Peter Ueberroth
- Narrated by: Peter Ueberroth
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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For five years Peter Ueberroth spearheaded the committee that oversaw the 23rd Olympiad held in Los Angeles, California. While the athletes trained, competed, and qualified, this future baseball commissioner and his committee—primarily comprised of business leaders and entrepreneurs—tackled the financial, political, and logistical problems they faced. Made in America is a detailed, behind-the-scenes look at what Ueberroth and his colleagues encountered on the road to the 1984 games
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Made in America
- Narrated by: Peter Ueberroth
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
- Release date: 14-10-2023
- Language: English
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Brave Enough
- By: Jessie Diggins, Todd Smith
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
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In Brave Enough, Jessie Diggins reveals the true story of her journey from the American Midwest into sports history. With candid charm and characteristic grit, she connects the dots from her free-spirited upbringing in the woods of Minnesota to racing in the bright spotlights of the Olympics. Going far beyond stories of races and ribbons, she describes the challenges and frustrations of becoming a serious athlete.
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Brave Enough
- Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
- Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 16-06-2020
- Language: English
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The Boys of Winter
- The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
- By: Wayne Coffey
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 US Olympic hockey team, a blue-collar bunch led by an unconventional coach, and they engineered perhaps the greatest sports moment of the 20th century. Their "Miracle on Ice" has become a national fairy tale, but the real Cinderella story is even more remarkable. It is a legacy of hope, hard work, and homegrown triumph. It is a chronicle of everyday heroes who just wanted to play hockey happily ever after.
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The Boys of Winter
- The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 28-02-2017
- Language: English
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On My Own Two Feet
- From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
- By: Amy Purdy, Michelle Burford
- Narrated by: Amy Purdy, Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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In this poignant and uplifting memoir, Dancing with the Stars sensation Amy Purdy reveals the story of how losing her legs led her to find a spiritual path. When the Las Vegas native was just nineteen, she came down with bacterial meningitis and was given less than a two percent chance of survival. In a near-death experience, she saw three figures who told her: “You can come with us, or you can stay. No matter what happens in your life, it's all going to make sense in the end." In that moment, Amy chose to live.
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Well worth listening too
- By Sarah Harris on 23-11-2020
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On My Own Two Feet
- From Losing My Legs to Learning the Dance of Life
- Narrated by: Amy Purdy, Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 15-09-2020
- Language: English
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A Shot at History
- My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
- By: Abhinav Bindra, Rohit Brijnath
- Narrated by: Mohan Ram
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Abhinav Bindra once shot 100 out of 100 in practice six times in a row and walked out of the range unhappy. He is a perfectionist who once soled his shoes with rubber from Ferrari tyres because he thought it would help. He would wake up at 3:00 a.m. to practise at his range at home if an idea suddenly struck him. It is from such obsession that greatness arrives.
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Amazing book
- By Adnan Ansari on 21-02-2018
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A Shot at History
- My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold
- Narrated by: Mohan Ram
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 21-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Games
- A Global History of the Olympics
- By: David Goldblatt
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 22 hrs and 42 mins
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The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. Seventeen days of sporting competition watched and followed on every continent and in every country on the planet. Simply the greatest show on earth. Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896, the founders thought them a 'display of manly virtue', an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman who would rule the world. How was such a ritual invented?
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- By Anonymous User on 21-11-2022
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Clyde the Glide
- My Life in Basketball
- By: Clyde Drexler, Kerry Eggers
- Narrated by: Gregory Gorton
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
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Autobiography of Hall of Fame basketball star Clyde Drexler, one of basketball history's most dynamic players. Through his fifteen-year career as an NBA player, Clyde Drexler played with elegance and flair, leadership and poise, integrity and an ability to come through in the clutch. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals twice and helped the Houston Rockets win the NBA championship in 1995. A ten-time All-Star, a member of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team, and now a member of basketball’s Hall of Fame, Drexler reached the top of his profession without revealing many of his inner thoughts on himself or the game.
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Clyde the Glide
- My Life in Basketball
- Narrated by: Gregory Gorton
- Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 24-01-2013
- Language: English
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One Jump at a Time
- My Story
- By: Nathan Chen
- Narrated by: Nathan Chen, Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
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In this exhilarating memoir, three-time World Champion and Olympic gold-medalist Nathan Chen tells the story of his remarkable journey to success, reflecting on his life as a Chinese American figure skater and the joys and challenges he has experienced—including the tremendous sacrifices he and his family made, and the physical and emotional pain he endured.
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One Jump at a Time
- My Story
- Narrated by: Nathan Chen, Eunice Wong
- Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-11-2022
- Language: English
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If Gold Is Our Destiny
- The 1984 U.S. Men's Volleyball Team and Its Quest for Olympic Glory
- By: Sean P. Murray, Karch Kiraly - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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In the early 1980s, a golden generation of volleyball players joined the U.S. men's national team. With the Olympics coming to Los Angeles in 1984, the pressure was on to build a winning program around these exceptional athletes. In If Gold Is Our Destiny, Sean P. Murray shares the incredible story of how a group of free-spirited players and their demanding coach captured the heart of a nation and became one of the greatest indoor volleyball teams of all time.
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If Gold Is Our Destiny
- The 1984 U.S. Men's Volleyball Team and Its Quest for Olympic Glory
- Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 12-07-2022
- Language: English
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From Cool Runnings to World Superpower: The Rise of American Fencing
- By: Igor Chirashnya
- Narrated by: Jeremiah James
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
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This audiobook will take you on a journey along with American fencing from the beginnings in the times of the founding fathers, all the way through the lackluster first decades of American competition in the Olympic Games, and on to today where American fencing stands poised to build on its success and become a major player on the world stage. It’s been a complicated road for the United States, one that’s intertwined with world politics and changing social structures.The American story is one of immigration and tenacity.
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From Cool Runnings to World Superpower: The Rise of American Fencing
- Narrated by: Jeremiah James
- Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 15-08-2019
- Language: English
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Unforgiving
- Lessons from the Fall
- By: Lindsey Jacobellis
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
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On February 16, 2006, twenty-year old American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis was poised to win the first gold medal in women’s snowboardcross, a sport making its Olympic debut. With a seemingly insurmountable lead over the other competitors, Lindsey only needed a clean run for the gold medal to be hers. But as the five-time world champion entered the last 100 meters the unthinkable happened: choosing to add a little flair to the run, she grabbed the back edge of her board—then lost her balance and fell.
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Unforgiving
- Lessons from the Fall
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-10-2023
- Language: English
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