Book description
The Olympics is the world's biggest sporting event - and it moves
centre stage for London 2012. Yet the sports the world is familiar with
- football, cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports - are either missing
or have a token presence. In their place are games that most of us have
not a clue how to play or to watch. Which is where this witty,
insightful book comes into play, offering the back story behind each
Olympics sport and, by means of fiendishly clever diagrams and prose,
explaining the rules and finer points. Once you've read David Goldblatt
and Johnny Acton's accounts, you'll be on tenterhooks to see whether the
Danish or the Koreans triumph at handball, just what the Italian fencers
are up to, and if Greco-Roman wrestling really is like a game of chess.
'The perfect event-by-event primer for sport's biggest occasion'
--Independent The Olympics is the world's biggest sporting event - and
it moves centre stage for London 2012. Yet the sports the world is
familiar with - football, cricket, rugby, baseball, motor sports - are
either missing or have a token presence. In their place are games that
most of us have not a clue how to play or to watch. Which is where this
witty, insightful book comes into play, offering the back story behind
each Olympics sport and, by means of fiendishly clever diagrams and
prose, explaining the rules and finer points. Once you've read David
Goldblatt and Johnny Acton's accounts, you'll be on tenterhooks to see
whether the Danish or the Koreans triumph at handball, just what the
Italian fencers are up to, and if Greco-Roman wrestling really is like a
game of chess.
