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Summary: The epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Kevin Pearce and Shaun White is documented in this exhilarating ride into the world of extreme snowboarding. With both practicing more and more breathtaking and dangerous tricks leading up to the Vancouver Winter Olympics, everything suddenly changes for Kevin when a horrific crash leaves him fighting for his life. When he recovers, all he wants to do...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CRA

Wetzel, Dan

Summary: "Well before Simone confronted the pressure of the Olympics, she faced real-life challenges as a kid while moving in and out of foster care. With the support and love of her family, she rode an unwavering drive to make history and grew into an incredible role model and activist--not to mention one of the greatest athletes of our time."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt Books for Young Readers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BIL

Mardini, Yusra

Summary: Traces the author's life-changing rescue of a boatload of fellow refugees and how it inspired her to compete on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team in Rio de Janeiro, tracing her subsequent advocacy on behalf of people who have been forced from their homes by war.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARDINI, YUSRA MAR

Gave, Keith

Summary: Like the group of players who stunned the world by upsetting the mighty Soviet Union in the iconic “Miracle Game” at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid in 1980, few gave the Team USA women much of a chance to beat the Canadians in the inaugural women’s tournament in Nagano, Japan in 1998. After all, Canada’s women had dominated their game for decades, winning every major international...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Printopya 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.962 GAV

Bonneville, Hugh

Summary: Citizens of London prepare for the upcoming 2012 summer Olympics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TWE

Eruzione, Mike

Summary: "On the fortieth anniversary of the historic 'Miracle on Ice,' Mike Eruzione--the captain of the 1980 U.S Men's Olympic Hockey Team, who scored the winning goal--recounts his amazing career on ice, the legendary upset against the Soviets, and winning the gold medal"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollings Publishers 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ERUZIONE, MIKE ERU

Summary: This is the shocking and incredibly true story of the brutal massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by a team of extreme Palestinian terrorists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany. From terrorist training in Libya to the terrorists sneaking into the Olympic Village to the tension-filled negotiations to the shocking conclusion at a German airport. Told with actual video shot during the crisis.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONE

Summary: pt.1. After being commissioned by the 1936 Olympic Committee to create a feature film of the Berlin Olympics, Riefenstahl shot a documentary that celebrates the human body by combining the poetry of bodies in motion with close-ups of athletes in the heat of competition. Includes the marathon, men's diving, and American track star Jesse Owen's sprint races at the 1936 Olympic games. The...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Pathfinder Home Entertainment 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OLY

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