Your training begins now: The Olympic Games can dazzle us with the sheer scale and variety of its sporting contests. Yet many of the games are unfamiliar to even the most avid sports fan. Which is where this witty, insightful book comes in, offering each sport's backstory and culture, and, with the help of fiendishly clever diagrams, explaining the finer points of strategy, tactics, skulduggery and guile. Once you've read the book, you'll be on tenterhooks to see whether the Danes triumph at handball, what the Italian fencers are up to, and why Greco-Roman wrestling is so crucial to Kazakhstan. You'll find yourself telling your friends why someone invented the butterfly stroke, where water polo serves as the closest expression of warfare, and how shuttlecocks travel faster than tennis balls. And much, much more besides. Seventeen days, 12,000 athletes, 29 sports, 302 gold medals up for grabs: the Games are almost upon us. How to Watch the Olympics is your personal trainer.
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