olympics

Presents biographies of thirteen African-Americans, including Edwin Moses, George Foreman, Debi Thomas, and Florence Griffith Joyner, who have won medals at the Olympics.

Surveys the history of the Olympic games and its varied events.

A biography of the female speed skater who has won five gold medals in the winter Olympics.

The reader decides the course of an adventure at the Olympic games in Atlanta, where evidence that would prove the muscular girls on the Dzakhastani swim team have been taking anabolic steroids is being suppressed.

Briefly traces the history of the modern Olympic Games as they developed from a single 200-meter race run in Olympia, Greece, in 776 B.C.

Simon Whitfield shares the story of his personal journey to a gold medal in the triathlon at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, and tells of his continuing quest in the 2004 and 2008 Games.

A discussion of the spirit and evolution of the Olympic games precedes accounts of seven Olympic champions: Jim Thorpe, Paavo Nurmi, Jesse Owens, Jean-Claude Killy, Mark Spitz, Vasily Alexeyev, and Eric Heiden.

Explores the relationship between sports and politics.

A biography emphasizing the running career of the Olympic gold medalist who set new records in the 1988 Games in Seoul.

A collection of facts and trivia about the Olympic Games.