track and field athletes

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track and field athletes

Decathlon challenge

Bruce Jenner's story
1977

Jim Thorpe, the legend remembered

1997
A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner and as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.

Wilma sin limites

como Wilma Rudolph se convirtio en la mujer en la mujer mas rapida del mundo
2000
A biography of the African-American woman who overcame crippling polio as a child to become the first woman to win three gold medals in track in a single Olympics.

Carl Lewis

1995
A biography of the African American Olympic gold medal winner in track.

Michael Johnson

1998
Surveys the career of the runner who won gold medals in both the 200- and 400-meter events at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Marion Jones

2001
Examines the life and career of track star Marion Jones, following the path she took to becoming an Olympic gold medal winner.

Olympic gold

2008
As the 1936 Olympic Games begin in Berlin, Germany, Jesse Owens hopes to prove Adolf Hitler's racist ideas wrong.

Jesse Owens

world's fastest human
2003
A biography of Jesse Owens, discussing his birth and childhood in Alabama as the son of sharecroppers, his early health scare, the family's move to Cleveland, and his development into a champion athlete and runner.

Track star!

2009
Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story about a student athlete and track star who has a critical decision to make which involves outside pressures on the outcome of the race.

Winners and losers

1996
When a heart condition threatens to curtail his friend Daryl's track career, Curt finds himself taking Daryl's place as lead contender for the conference championship and as the new obsession of Daryl's driven father.

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