Dispatches from Vancouver: A Non-Traditional Sports Fan in America's View of the XXI Winter Olympiad
Book Details
Author(s)
Zach Bigalke
ISBN / ASIN
1475014619
ISBN-13
9781475014617
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Sales Rank
#3,661,475
Category
Sports & Recreation
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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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...
