Igniting the Flame: America's First Olympic Team

by Jim Reisler

Dave Wottle (Foreword)

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The story of the fourteen men - largely forgotten and never the subject of a full-length book - who created the American Olympic movement by winning eleven gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896 in Athens, timed for publication leading up to the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials and the 2012 Olympics in London.
  • ISBN10 0762778482
  • ISBN13 9780762778485
  • Publish Date 5 June 2012
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
  • Imprint Globe Pequot Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 296
  • Language English