The 1908 Olympic Games were controversial. There was almost constant bickering among the American team and the British officials. Because of the controversies, the 1908 Olympics have been termed "The Battle of Shepherd's Bush," referring to the site of the Olympic Stadium. Reports of the 1908 Olympics have been rare and do not for instance contain full results for archery, track and field athletics, football (soccer), gymnastics, motorboating and shooting. A great deal of new information has been discovered by the authors, and this work gives complete results for all events. The information presented is based primarily on 1908 sources. For the first time, definitive word on the sites, dates, events, competitors, and nations as well as the event results are available for all of the 1908 Olympic events, including boxing, cycling, diving, fencing, field hockey, lacrosse, polo, raquets, swimming, lawn tennis, tug-of-war, weightlifting, wrestling and yachting, among other sports. A series of appendices include rarely seen information about the many controversies surrounding the Games.
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New volume in the publisher's Results of the Early Modern Olympics series. RBB
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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Bill Mallon is a co-founder and vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) and the original editor of the Journal of Olympic History. He is a surgeon in Durham, North Carolina. Ian Buchanan is president of the International Society of Olympic Historians and lives in Norwich, England. --arba
"An invaluable, addition to any library, public or private, with a collection relating to the Olympics" --Journal of Olympic History
"Well organized...a mine of factual detail and a useful summary of the controversies that led to an improved organization for the Stockholm games in 1912" --The International Journal of the History of Sport. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
"An invaluable, addition to any library, public or private, with a collection relating to the Olympics" --Journal of Olympic History
"Well organized...a mine of factual detail and a useful summary of the controversies that led to an improved organization for the Stockholm games in 1912" --The International Journal of the History of Sport. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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