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| | Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Male Olympic Champions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Each entry covers the individual's birth, youth, how he got started in his sport, his athletic career, and Olympic performances, followed by a generally abbreviated passage on his post-Olympic life and accomplishments. |
 | | The readable text does not gloss over negative aspects, covering Thorpe's marital and drinking problems, Nurmi's surliness toward his competition, and Alexeyev's poor training habits. |
 | | This book should be useful in most collections, particularly for its information on Nurmi, Killy, and Alexeyev, which is less readily available than material on the American athletes. |
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