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Swimming For Gold
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Author : Joy Cowley
language : en
Publisher: Weigl Publishers
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Swimming For Gold written by Joy Cowley and has been published by Weigl Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
AV2 Audio Chapter Books by Weigl bring you exciting fiction tales. These high-interest stories are sure to entertain and educate while captivating even the most reluctant readers. Test your knowledge with a fun self-assessment activity. Hear the book come to life as you read along in your own book.
Katie Ledecky Swimming For Gold
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Author : Mario Petrrino
language : en
Publisher: Creative Media Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-10
Katie Ledecky Swimming For Gold written by Mario Petrrino and has been published by Creative Media Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Katie Ledecky: Swimming’s Golden Girl narrates the extraordinary story of the young US swimmer who stunned the world by capturing gold at the 2012 Olympics. Since the London Games, the popular role model has dominated ladies swimming with her powerful swimming and winning attitude. A children’s biography accompanied by breathtaking illustrations, Katie Ledecky: Swimming’s Golden Girl offers an in-depth look at the swimmer who is expected to reign at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The stirring story of Ledecky’s meteoric rise to the top will captivate and inspire young readers.
Stuff The Silver We Re Going For Gold
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Author : Laurie Lawrence
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-05
Stuff The Silver We Re Going For Gold written by Laurie Lawrence and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05 with categories.
Great Australian swim coach, pool safety crusader and poet LAURIE LAURENCE provides a collection of stories, interviews and insights covering many sports from his eight Olympic Games experiences and relationships with some of Australia's (and overseas) champions.
Michael Phelps
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Author : David P. Torsiello
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Michael Phelps written by David P. Torsiello and has been published by Enslow Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A biography of American Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps. In 2008, he won eight gold medals at the Olympic Games in Beijing, breaking the record of most gold medals won at a single Olympics.
Gold In The Water
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Author : P. H. Mullen
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2003-02-25
Gold In The Water written by P. H. Mullen and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-25 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Examines the psyches, backgrounds, and motivations of the United States 2000 Olympic swim team and describes the journey these swimmers must take to compete in the Olympics, including training and competitions.
The Three Year Swim Club
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Author : Julie Checkoway
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-10-27
The Three Year Swim Club written by Julie Checkoway and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with History categories.
The New York Times bestselling inspirational story of impoverished children who transformed themselves into world-class swimmers. In 1937, a schoolteacher on the island of Maui challenged a group of poverty-stricken sugar plantation kids to swim upstream against the current of their circumstance. The goal? To become Olympians. They faced seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The children were Japanese-American and were malnourished and barefoot. They had no pool; they trained in the filthy irrigation ditches that snaked down from the mountains into the sugarcane fields. Their future was in those same fields, working alongside their parents in virtual slavery, known not by their names but by numbered tags that hung around their necks. Their teacher, Soichi Sakamoto, was an ordinary man whose swimming ability didn't extend much beyond treading water. In spite of everything, including the virulent anti-Japanese sentiment of the late 1930s, in their first year the children outraced Olympic athletes twice their size; in their second year, they were national and international champs, shattering American and world records and making headlines from L.A. to Nazi Germany. In their third year, they'd be declared the greatest swimmers in the world. But they'd also face their greatest obstacle: the dawning of a world war and the cancellation of the Games. Still, on the battlefield, they'd become the 20th century's most celebrated heroes, and in 1948, they'd have one last chance for Olympic glory. They were the Three-Year Swim Club. This is their story.
Katie Ledecky Swimming S Golden Girl
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Author : Mario Petrrino
language : en
Publisher: Creative Media Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-01
Katie Ledecky Swimming S Golden Girl written by Mario Petrrino and has been published by Creative Media Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
"Katie Ledecky: Swimming's Golden Girl" narrates the extraordinary story of the young US swimmer who stunned the world by capturing gold at the 2012 Olympics. Since the London Games, the popular role model has dominated ladies swimming with her powerful swimming and winning attitude. A children's biography accompanied by breathtaking illustrations, "Katie Ledecky: Swimming's Golden Girl" offers an in-depth look at the swimmer who is expected to reign at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The stirring story of Ledecky's meteoric rise to the top will captivate and inspire young readers.
Swimming For Fun
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Author : Andrew Willett
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2003
Swimming For Fun written by Andrew Willett and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Describes the four racing strokes in the sport of swimming and presents information on the basic equipment, practice, coaching, and competition.
The Watermen
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Author : Michael Loynd
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2023-06-13
The Watermen written by Michael Loynd and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-13 with History categories.
The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal) “Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat . . . captures the imagination of the public. . . . Add The Watermen by Michael Loynd to this illustrious list.”—Swimming World Winner of the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Paragon Award and the Buck Dawson Authors Award In the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and swimming as a competitive sport was almost unheard of. That is, until Charles Daniels took to the water. On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety thanks to a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before abandoning Charles and his mother altogether. Charles’s only source of joy was swimming. But with no one to teach him, he struggled with technique—until he caught the eye of two immigrant coaches hell-bent on building a U.S. swim program that could rival the British Empire’s seventy-year domination of the sport. Interwoven with the story of Charles’s efforts to overcome his family’s disgrace is the compelling history of the struggle to establish the modern Olympics in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy. When the powerful British Empire finally legitimized the Games by hosting the fourth Olympiad in 1908, Charles’s hard-fought rise climaxed in a gold-medal race where British judges prepared a trap to ensure the American upstart’s defeat. Set in the early days of a rapidly changing twentieth century, The Watermen—a term used at the time to describe men skilled in water sports—tells an engrossing story of grit, of the growth of a major new sport in which Americans would prevail, and of a young man’s determination to excel.
Swimming For My Life
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Author : Kim Fairley
language : en
Publisher: She Writes Press
Release Date : 2022-10-11
Swimming For My Life written by Kim Fairley and has been published by She Writes Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1970s Cincinnati, Kim’s overwhelmed, financially stressed parents dragged her and her four younger siblings into swimming—starting with a nearby motel pool—as a way to keep them occupied and out of their way. When Kim was eleven, they began leaving the kids at home with a sitter while they traveled the Midwest, where they sold imported wooden ornaments from their motorhome. But when Kim’s six-year-old brother crashed his new Cheater Slick bike and the babysitter deserted the children, what started as an accident became a pattern: Mom and Dad leaving for weeks at a time and the kids wrestling with life’s emergencies on their own. As Kim coped in the role of fill-in mother while dealing with the stresses of elite swimming, she struggled to shape her own life. She eventually found strength, competence and achievement through swimming—and became the second female swimmer to win a full ride to the University of Southern California, where she earned two national titles. Swimming for My Life is a peek into the dark side of elite swimming as well as a tale of family bonds, reconciling with the past, and how it is possible to emerge from life’s toxic and lifesaving waters.
