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Gold Metal Reads

Learn more about the history of the Olympics, Olympic sports, and its athletes!

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12 items

  • Total Olympics

    Every Obscure, Hilarious, Dramatic, and Inspiring Tale Worth Knowing

    Fuchs, Jeremy
    eBook, 2021Workman Publishing Company, 2021
  • The History of the Olympic Games

    Faster, Higher, Stronger

    Book, 2020London : Welbeck, 2020. — GV721.5 .H57 2020
  • The Games

    a Global History of the Olympics

    Goldblatt, David, 1965-
    Book, 2016New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2016] — GV721.5 .G615 2016
  • The Other Olympians

    Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports

    Waters, Michael, 1997-
    Book, 2024New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — GV721.5 .W38 2024
  • Black Mercuries

    African American Athletes, Race, and the Modern Olympic Games

    Wiggins, David Kenneth, 1951-
    Book, 2023Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023] — GV721.5 .W455 2023
  • Gold

    How Gretzky's Men Ended Canada's 50-year Olympic Hockey Drought

    Wharnsby, Tim, 1964-
    Book, 2022Chicago, Illinois : Triumph Books, [2022] — GV842 2002 .W48 2022
  • The Watermen

    the Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold

    Loynd, Michael,
    Book, 2022New York : Ballantine Books, [2022] — GV838.D35 L69 2022
  • Running Sideways

    the Olympic Champion Who Made Track and Field History

    Davis, Pauline, 1966-
    Book, 2022Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022] — GV1061.15.D38 A3 2022
  • Splash!

    10,000 Years of Swimming

    Means, Howard B.
    Book, 2020New York : Hachette Books, [2020] — GV836.4 .M43 2020
  • Games of Deception

    the True Story of the First U.S. Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany

    Maraniss, Andrew,
    Book, 2019New York : Philomel Books, 2019. — GV721.5 .M37 2019
  • The Boys in the Boat

    Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

    Brown, Daniel James, 1951-
    Book, 2014New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2014. — GV791 .B844 2014