Name: A.T.H.L.E.T.E: A Life in Athletics (en Inglés)
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Author: Morley, Glenn Michael
ISBN: 9781511626422

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Libro Físico

Autor

Glenn Michael Morley

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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Inglés

N° páginas

198

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

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27.9 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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0.65 kg.

ISBN13

9781511626422

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A.T.H.L.E.T.E: A Life in Athletics (en Inglés)

Glenn Michael Morley (Autor) · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform · Tapa Blanda

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... recent sport history has shown that today's professional competitors are relying more and more on PEDs - Performance Enhancing Drugs - to gain an advantage to win - less so for the resulting fame and glory than for the increasingly lucrative contracts and commercial endorsements - the attraction of such unprecedented wealth has so blurred the definition of what an athlete is or has become that it seems the time has come to hit the proverbial 'Reset Button' - to redefine what an athlete is or is supposed to be - based on the historical legacy we inherited from ancient Greece - this text focuses on those athletes who - like the author - are the unheralded - the unsupported - those without the glory - fame and wealth that accompanies it - there are no fans to witness the accomplishments - no medals - no sports reporters at the finish line - the personal sweet victories or bitter defeats are theirs alone - it is a story of the sheer pain day in and day out that accompanies their pursuit of athletic excellence or arête on their own personal scale - it is at once a story of the competitive spirit - its inexplicable loss and rediscovery - it is ongoing this 'Life in Athletics' - it is a simplistic and humble account of this authors athletic experiences that are not meant to be 'the voice' of all athletes but for those who have pursued athletics with similar ambitions in the hope that it will also inspire others to do so ...