| Dispatches from Vancouver: A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America's View of the XXI Winter Olympiad Contributor(s): Bigalke, Zach (Author) |
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ISBN: 1475014619 ISBN-13: 9781475014617 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Olympics & Paralympics |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6" W x 9" (0.68 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Opening with the tragedy of Nomar Kumaritashvili's death in Whistler and concluding with one final gold for the hockey-mad home country, the fortnight of the Vancouver Olympics brought out the range of human emotion -- from gilded joy to funereal gloom. In this volume, Zach Bigalke utilizes both his daily dispatches from February 2010 and the benefit of hindsight to tell the multifaceted stories of those seventeen days... |