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Author : Melvyn Francis Watman
Release : 2001
Genre : Athletics
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Book Synopsis American Track & Field Presents History of Olympic Track & Field Athletics by : Melvyn Francis Watman
Download or read book American Track & Field Presents History of Olympic Track & Field Athletics written by Melvyn Francis Watman. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mel Watman
Release : 2000-07-01
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Book Synopsis History of Olympic Track and Field Athletics by : Mel Watman
Download or read book History of Olympic Track and Field Athletics written by Mel Watman. This book was released on 2000-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Burns
Release : 2018-10-02
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis The Track in the Forest by : Bob Burns
Download or read book The Track in the Forest written by Bob Burns. This book was released on 2018-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1968 US men's Olympic track and field team won 12 gold medals and set six world records at the Mexico City Games, one of the most dominant performances in Olympic history. The team featured such legends as Tommie Smith, Bob Beamon, Al Oerter, and Dick Fosbury. Fifty years later, the team is mostly remembered for embodying the tumultuous social and racial climate of 1968. The Black Power protest of Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the victory stand in Mexico City remains one of the most enduring images of the 1960s. Less known is the role that a 400-meter track carved out of the Eldorado National Forest above Lake Tahoe played in molding that juggernaut. To acclimate US athletes for the 7,300-foot elevation of Mexico City, the US Olympic Committee held a two-month training camp and final Olympic selection meet for the ages at Echo Summit near the California-Nevada border. Never has a sporting event of such consequence been held in such an ethereal setting. On a track in which hundreds of trees were left standing on the infield to minimize the environmental impact, four world records fell—more than have been set at any US meet since (including the 1984 and 1996 Olympics). But the road to Echo Summit was tortuous—the Vietnam War was raging, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated, and a group of athletes based out of San Jose State had been threatening to boycott the Mexico City Games to protest racial injustice. Informed by dozens of interviews by longtime sports journalist and track enthusiast Bob Burns, this is the story of how in one of the most divisive years in American history, a California mountaintop provided an incomparable group of Americans shelter from the storm.
Author : Louise Mead Tricard
Release : 1996-01-01
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis American Women's Track and Field by : Louise Mead Tricard
Download or read book American Women's Track and Field written by Louise Mead Tricard. This book was released on 1996-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1985 the Vassar College Athletic Association ignored the constraints placed on women athletes of that era and held its first-ever womens field day, featuring competition in five track and field events. Soon colleges across the country were offering women the opportunity to compete, and in 1922 the United States selected 22 women to compete in the Womens World Games in Paris. Upon their return, female physical educators severely criticized their efforts, decrying "the evils of competition." Wilma Rudolphs triumphant Olympics in 1960 sparked renewed support for womens track and field in the United States. From 1922 to 1960, thousands of women competed, and won many gold medals, with little encouragement or recognition. This reference work provides a history, based on many interviews and meticulous research in primary source documents, of womens track and field, from its beginnings on the lawns of Vassar College in 1895, through 1980, when Title IX began to create a truly level playing field for men and women. The results of Amateur Athletic Union Womens Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships since 1923 are given, as well as full coverage of female Olympians.
Author : Roberto Quercetani
Release : 1964
Genre : Athletes
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Book Synopsis A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864-1964 by : Roberto Quercetani
Download or read book A World History of Track and Field Athletics, 1864-1964 written by Roberto Quercetani. This book was released on 1964. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
