Igniting the Flame

America's First Olympic Team

By (author) Jim Reisler Foreword by Dave Wottle

Hardback - £18.99

Publication date:

05 August 2012

Length of book:

296 pages

Publisher

Lyons Press

ISBN-13: 9780762778485

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.

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