- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Religious; illustrated edition edition (15 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340862254
- ISBN-13: 978-0340862254
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,166,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Christians in Sport director Stuart Weir provides a fascinating, whistle-stop history to the Olympics from its origins in the Greece of 776BC, through the Olympian revival of the nineteenth century to the high-tech Olympic Villages of the 21st Century. This unique book has been written from a Christian perspective, focusing on some of the games' great Christian athletes such as Eric Liddell and Jonathan Edwards, and relating the Olympic ethos to the Gospel. Stuart Weir looks at the personalities who have made these events so fascinating to watch from those who are merely in it for the joy of competing such as 'Eddie the Eagle' through to medal winning household names such Steve Redgrave, Jesse Owens and Steph Cook. He also looks at some of the lows that have hit the Olympics from drug taking to disqualification's and injuries as well as some of the amazing trivia and facts associated with the Olympics from the oldest and youngest competitors to the oddest.
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Stuart Weir is a writer and a director of Christians in Sport, a registered charity which exists to promote a Christian presence in the world of sport. He has worked on books such as Bernhard Langer's autobiography. He lives in Oxford with his wife and two children.
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