The First Modern OlympicsBlacktoad Publishing, 1976 - 194 Seiten |
Inhalt
Introduction | |
Chapter One | |
Chapter Four | |
Events Day One | |
Chapter Six | |
Events Day Three | |
Events Day Four | |
Chapter Nine | |
Chapter Seventeen | |
The multimedal winning Frenchman died in 1917 aged only 40 | |
The Greek died in 1960 aged 84 | |
The man who got doctors to write him a sick note so he could go to Athens returned home in a condition that must have surprised his physicians for i... | |
Hofman who was almost absurdly versatile in 1896 when he competed in eight events returned to Athens for the intercalculated Games of 1906 He w... | |
The triple gold medal winning Frenchman turned professional after the Games and adopted the name Paul Nossam Masson spelt backwards He came ... | |
This Austrian who was better known for his fencing saw his son compete at the 1912 Games in Stockholm He died aged 47 on 28 August 1919 appa... | |
Roll of Honour for the First Olympiad | |
Events Day Six | |
Events Day Seven | |
Events Day Eight | |
Events Day Nine | |
Chapter Fourteen | |
Last Hurrahs and Homecomings | |
Verdict on the Athens Games | |
Marathon | |
Long jump | |
Bibliography | |
The Sports Historian May 1997 | |
The Sports Historian May 1997 | |
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Adolf Schmal Albin Lermusiaux American arena arrived Athens Athens Games athletes Birmingham Post Blake Boston Britain British Burke champion championships Charles Gmelin cheers closing ceremony Club of Athens committee compete competitors Constantine contest crowd Crown Prince cycling discus drachmas Edwin Flack Ellery Clark entrants event final finish Flatow France French Frenchman George Robertson Georgios German Gouskos Grantley Goulding Greece Greek gymnastics Hajos Harvard heat Hungarian Hungary hurdles Ioannis James Connolly John Pius Boland kilometres king later Launceston Elliot Lermusiaux Louis marathon medals metres minutes modern Olympics official Olympians Olympic Games organising Paris Pierre de Coubertin Prince George race Robert Garrett royal runner secs shooting shot spectators Spiridon Louis stadium stage Sumner Paine tennis Thomas Curtis took track train Trikoupis triple jump velodrome victory Vigo Jensen Vikelas weightlifting winner wrote