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Olympics Books
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.39 — 367,309 ratings — published 2013
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,009,418 ratings — published 2010
The Favorites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.03 — 262,631 ratings — published 2025
Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,570 ratings — published 2008
Just Add Water: My Swimming Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,178 ratings — published 2024
The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,397 ratings — published 2005
Gold (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.71 — 16,918 ratings — published 2012
Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens And Hitler's Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,862 ratings — published 2007
The Wildest Race Ever: The Story of the 1904 Olympic Marathon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.74 — 327 ratings — published 2016
The Boys in the Boat: The True Story of an American Team's Epic Journey to Win Gold at the 1936 Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.44 — 15,716 ratings — published 2015
Settling the Score (The Summer Games, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,837 ratings — published 2016
Sakamoto's Swim Club: How a Teacher Led an Unlikely Team to Victory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.21 — 483 ratings — published 2021
Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.88 — 9,966 ratings — published 2020
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 589 ratings — published
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,779 ratings — published 2022
Olympig! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.64 — 449 ratings — published 2012
One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God" (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,202 ratings — published 2000
Kiss and Cry (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,731 ratings — published 2022
Head Over Heels (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.58 — 22,559 ratings — published 2020
Touch the Sky: Alice Coachman, Olympic High Jumper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.19 — 228 ratings — published 2012
Hour of the Olympics (Magic Tree House, #16)
by (shelved 10 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,264 ratings — published 1998
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,711 ratings — published 2016
Out of Bounds (The Summer Games, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,385 ratings — published 2016
Stroked (Stroked, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,261 ratings — published 2016
Munich 1972: Tragedy, Terror, and Triumph at the Olympic Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.60 — 150 ratings — published 2012
The Three-Year Swim Club: The Untold Story of Maui's Sugar Ditch Kids and Their Quest for Olympic Glory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,435 ratings — published 2015
Synchronicity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,737 ratings — published 2013
Tacky And The Winter Games (Tacky the Penguin)
by (shelved 9 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.82 — 592 ratings — published 2005
Something in the Air: American Passion and Defiance in the 1968 Mexico City Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.72 — 97 ratings — published 2009
Let the Games Begin (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,465 ratings — published 2024
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.03 — 417 ratings — published 2018
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.32 — 4,469 ratings — published 2018
Relay (Changing Lanes, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,132 ratings — published 2018
Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.23 — 14,181 ratings — published 2012
Olympics! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 47 ratings — published 1996
One Jump at a Time: My Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,224 ratings — published 2022
Cold War (Cold War #1-2)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,174 ratings — published 2018
Fierce: How Competing for Myself Changed Everything (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,856 ratings — published 2017
Long-Armed Ludy and the First Women's Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.13 — 169 ratings — published
Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,314 ratings — published 2017
Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (The Sports Beat, #6)
by (shelved 7 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,499 ratings — published 2012
Skate It Till You Make It (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.48 — 3,177 ratings — published
G is for Gold Medal: An Olympics Alphabet (Sports Alphabet)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 3.68 — 102 ratings — published 2011
Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,288 ratings — published 2024
She Persisted in Sports: American Olympians Who Changed the Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.27 — 375 ratings — published
Break the Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,247 ratings — published 2020
Beautiful on the Outside (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,202 ratings — published 2019
Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream (Audiobook)
by (shelved 6 times as olympics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,224 ratings — published 2018
“No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28
18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world
19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter
20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind
22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."
24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics
25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.
35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”
―
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16) Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17) Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age 28
18) Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world
19) J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter
20) Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
21) Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind
22) Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23) Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."
24) Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics
25) The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26) Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today are worth millions.
27) Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28) Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and 49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29) Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30) Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up her seat to make room for a white passenger
31) John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32) Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33) Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34) Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came out.
35) Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36) Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37) Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to unprecedented levels.
38) Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40) Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41) Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42) J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43) Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44) Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45) Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”
―
“You have to create your self-belief by going to your core to find the probable reasons for the negativity in you, and then demolish them.”
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success
― The Champion in all of Us: 12 Rules for Success














