Summary of the Book
Did you know that Norman Trevor, the famous Hollywood star who acted in Beau Geste, Dancing Mothers etc. won for India its first athletics medals at the Olympics? Did you know that Philip Noel Baker, 1959 Nobel Prize winner was a silver medalist in the 1,500 meters event at the 1920 Games and that he actually slowed down in the home straight to allow Albert Bill, his compatriot, to run on and win his second gold medal? Did you know that Hitler's speech at the Berlin Games, which was steering towards fascism, was cut short by the IOC President, Baillet Latour? Did you know that disgraced sprinter, Ben Johnson, in his autobiography, claims to have been an Egyptian Pharaoh in his previous life? Did you know that Estonian Gerd Kanter, after winning the discus gold at Beijing, actually ran down the 100metre track and did the Usain Bolt routine, including the archer's pose for the benefit of the crowd?
Thousands of such anecdotes and more that will keep you entertained during the Olympics and much after.
‘The Games’ is written by well known sports writer Austin Coutinho and the book promises to be full of details on everything you need to know on the Olympics, including the last Games of the XXIX Olympiad that took place in Beijing in 2008, nuggets and briefs on the participants in 2012, the events, the history of Olympics and tracts of information through the years of the Games have been hosted in various countries.
Full of illustrations and caricatures done by the author himself the book uses easy-to-read format like quizzes, trivia and a large number of details on the Games that most of us don’t know.