Igniting the flame
Subtitle: America's first olympic team
By: Jim Reisler
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Guilford, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780762778485
Subjects: History; American Participation; Olympics; SPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics; Sports; Athletes; Olympic Games (1st : 1896 : Athens, Greece); HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
Description: "The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London"--