The 1896 Olympic Games : Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary - Bill Mallon

The 1896 Olympic Games

Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary

By: Bill Mallon, Ture Widlund

Paperback | 10 March 2009

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During the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta, much of the world watched and celebrated as athletes broke world records and took home medals, fulfilling their Olympic dreams. The athletes' scores were available instantaneously and are now easily accessible, but what about the performance records of the first modern Olympic athletes? The Modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, through the efforts of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who revived the Olympic tradition that began centuries before - but an official record of these Olympic games does not exist.This work is the first in a series of comprehensive reference works giving the results of the Olympic Games, beginning in 1896. Based primarily on 1896 sources, the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event, the results are compiled herein for track and field, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, tennis (lawn), weightlifting, wrestling and other sports and events. Although mainly a statistical analysis, this work does include a short synopsis of the Sorbonne Congress and reprints of famous articles about the Olympics, including one by Pierre de Coubertin. Previous documentation of the early Olympics has been sketchy and error-prone. This series addresses the need for comprehensive and accurate information. Most of the data are derived from sources contemporary to the events and much information published elsewhere is herein correct.
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"numerous interesting facts about the poorly documented early years of Olympic history"-Booklist; "the sites, dates, events, athletes and participating countries are listed, together with all the results"-Olympic Review; "impressive...superior to all those yet produced"-Olympika; "as a historian of sport I can only thank the author of this and other authors of volumes in the series for their fastidious labour of love that will provide a mine of information both to enjoy for its own sake and to form the basis for academic research"-Reference Reviews.

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