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Title: A History of the Olympics

Author: John Goodbody

Narrator: Barry Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-12-12

Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: History, 20th Century

Publisher's Summary:

This unique audiobook history of the Olympics, first issued in 2008, has been updated to include the Beijing Olympics and released to coincide with the London event. Written by the prize-winning sports journalist John Goodbody, and with a fascinating personal documentary featuring one of Britain's leading Olympians, Sebastian Coe, who is now heading the 2012 Games, this is an ideal opener!

Goodbody, for many years chief sports news writer for the Times, has covered every Olympics since 1964. In this entertaining and informative account, he tells the main stories of each of the modern Olympics. Here are some of the heroes and heroines who have made sporting history, as well as the main disasters and scandals that attend the worlds greatest sporting event.

Editorial Reviews:

In chronological, orderly fashion, the evolution of the Summer Games is laid out, from its modern inception in Athens in 1896 through its return to the Greek capital in 2004. Listeners will hear of classic competitions in various sports, pervasive themes, many brief anecdotes, and occasional opinions. Barry Davis announces the history in an enjoyable, breezy manner. Breaks between years are given a few seconds of appropriate music representing that year's Olympics. The only missing component - the Winter Games - could be a separate volume; indeed, it would have been too much here. An especially articulate interview with middle-distance runner Sebastian Coe ends things well.

Members Reviews:

Better than expected...

So, I kept putting this off and off but when I finally took the time to listen it, I realized the book is actually quite intriguing. Filled with interesting facts and historical references dating back to the very first Olympics, this work is well-done and the narrator does a great job as well. My only regret, the book only focuses on the summer Olympics, which is certainly disappointing to a winters-sports' guy like myself.

OK. But not quite what I was looking for.

Any additional comments?

Competently executed, and will delight sports nerds. However the things that I was hoping to learn about the Olympic movement - the background, city-selection process, logistics, organization, finance etc, are all glossed over very briefly indeed. The focus of the book is quite tightly on athletes, sports statistics and medal tallies.

wow!!

one of the best.. buy it!!! time flew buy listening to it.. everything you ever need to know about the olympics!

Brilliant

Perfect listening material before the London Olympics! So many facts and figures about the greatest show on Earth