02648cam a2200361 4500 536177354 TxAuBib 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781453295137 1453295135 B00AEGIGDS Amazon faaf3f2a-1388-4a12-856d-1caada67867f OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1188317 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Halberstam, David. Amateurs [Libby eBook] : The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal. Open Road Media, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 4683kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Sports & Recreation. Olympics. ebook. HTML:<p><b>In "one of the best books ever written about a sport," Halberstam chronicles the story of four amateur US rowers and their 1984 Olympic dream (<i>Newsweek</i>).</b><br /> <br /> In 1984, rowing was a sport continually relegated to the margins, far from the spotlights attracted by other Olympic events. That year, four men went head-to-head for the right to compete for gold as the United States' single sculler, an honor that would lead not to lucrative endorsement deals, but to the fleeting glory of the Olympic Games, and the satisfaction of ranking supreme among their competitive community of oarsmen. In pursuit of that goal, the rowers pushed through crippling pain, delaying personal relationships and careers, all for the rush of winning. Determined to understand these athletes of a seemingly bygone era, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author David Halberstam chronicles their bravery and obsession, delivering a dramatic human story, buzzing with adrenaline, about the lengths to which athletes will go to prove their mettle and compete on the highest level.</p> <p>This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.</p>. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FAAF3F2A-1388-4A12-856D-1CAADA67867F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FAAF3F2A-1388-4A12-856D-1CAADA67867F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FAAF3F2A-1388-4A12-856D-1CAADA67867F&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXLIV