The Secret Olympian: The Inside Story of the Olympic Experience

Name: The Secret Olympian: The Inside Story of the Olympic Experience
Brand: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
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The vast majority of us can only dream of being an Olympic-level athlete - but we have no real idea of what that means. Here, for the first time, in all its shocking, funny and downright bizarre glory, is the truth of the Olympic experience. It is an unimaginable world: the kitting-out ceremony with its 35kg of team clothing per athletethe pre-Olympic holding camp with its practical jokes, resentment and fighting, and freaky physiological regimesthe politicians' visits with their flirty spousesthe vast range of athletes with their odd body shapes and freakish geneticsthe release post-competion in the Olympic village with all the excessive drinking, eating, partying and sex (not necessarily in that order)the hysteria of homecoming celebrations and the comedown that follows - how do you adjust to life after the Games? The Secret Olympian talks to scores of Olympic athletes - past and present, from Munich 1960 right through to London 2012, including British, American, Australian, Dutch, French, Croatian, German, Canadian and Italian competitors. They all have a tale to tell - and most of those tales would make your eyes pop more than an Olympic weightlifter's.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 215
Release Date:: 2012-05-10
Publication Date:: 2012-07-31
Publisher:: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1408154927
ISBN13:: 9781408154922
Weight:: 186 g
Height:: 128 cm
Width:: 198 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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