1,917円 The 1960 Olympic Winter Games were a long-shot effort that succeeded beyond the wildest expectations. Working in a sparsely populated valley in the Sierra Nevada with only rudimentary facilities, organizers created a world-class Olympic site in four short years. For the only time in Olympic histo...

827円 Game on. The greatest athletes to ever play their respective sports are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From His Royal Airness Michael Jordan to the Great One Wayne Gretzky to Homerun King Hank Aaron, these incomparable athlete...

903円 Ronda Rousey ー Most dangerous unarmed woman on the planet. She's also an Olympic bronze medalist, UFC champion, and world’s largest female pay-per-view draw... But it wasn’t always that way. Once a shy, frustrated child, an outcast in school, & an unwelcome competitor in a male-dominated sport, ...

2,177円 The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and talked way too much. Six rounds later Ali was...

661円 Want to complete your first ever half marathon, or even a full marathon? You need proper guidance and technique to do it! First of all, your planning must be right. Get a schedule out. Plan the days you exercise. Follow it. Next, your diet and food. Eat well, sleep well. There are tons of thin...

12,103円 Women are, and have been for many years, actively involved as players, supporters and co-ordinators in a range of sports and yet they are often missing from, or sidelined in, accounts of the history of these sports. Commenting first on the lack of inclusion of women in British sports history, the...

10,943円 The first summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were held in Singapore in 2010 and the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012. The IOC hopes that the YOG will encourage young people to be more active and that they will bring the Olympic movement closer to its original founding values. T...

1,192円 Doug Mauro, A former Professional Beach Volleyball Player, who played on the AVP and EVA Pro Beach Volleyball Tours calls this book "The Bible of Beach Volleyball". In the book he discusses the basics of Beach Volleyball for the person just taking up the game and expands all the way to the Profes...

9,616円 On 6 July 2005, the International Olympic Committee awarded the 2012 summer Olympic Games to the city of London, opening a new chapter in Great Britain’s rich Olympic history. Despite the prospect of hosting the summer Games for the third time since Pierre de Coubertin’s 1894 revival of the Olymp...

8,290円 This is the first book to address the link between culture and sport management. The aim is to demonstrate that culture profoundly affects how we research, teach and practice sport management. The book engages with the concept of culture both as an abstract analytical category and specific belief...

345円 The essential guide for watching curling. From the basics and a brief history lesson to detailed explanation of strategy so you can watch from home as the ultimate couch skip. Includes diagrams, charts and over 30 analyzed situations to make you more prepared than the players on the ice. All ligh...

444円 Dr. Gerald Gems is one of the premier sports historians in the world. In this book, the first video text in sport history, we can see videos of how ancient and modern games have been played. But he goes beyond the sport, looking at the cultural background in which the sports have been played. We ...