• 13-digit ISBN: 978-184-379-661-9
• Barcode: 9781843796619
• Approximate length: 50,000 words
• Formats: iPad/iPhone, Kindle, Nook, Kobo

This unique history of the Olympics, first issued in 2008, has been updated to include the Beijing Olympics and released to coincide with the London event. Written by the prizewinning sports journalist John Goodbody, and with a fascinating personal documentary featuring one of Britain’s leading Olympians, Sebastian Coe, who is now heading the 2012 Games, this is an ideal opener!

About the Author

John Goodbody will be covering the London Olympics for the Sunday Times—his 12th successive Summer Games. He was Sports News Correspondent for the Times for nearly 22 years, winning journalistic awards in every decade with the paper. He covered his first Games in 1968, alongside Barry Davies, and has subsequently written several books on the event. As a competitor, he broke British junior weightlifting records and was a member of the national judo squad in 1970, was Cambridge University’s No. 1 shot-putter and in 1991, aged 48, he became the oldest Briton for 18 years to swim the English Channel.