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  • 8 months later...

I read Wallechinsky olympic books again and again and i am so sad that there were no new editions after 2012.

 

If i were a young, aspiring journalists i would contact people who were responsible for those books and offered them my contribution to do the 2012-2022 olympics update... if you reach some agreement on this, it's a good way to start to make your name known.

 

But i'm not a journalist

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5 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

The writing of the 2014 book was up to the same standard as before but the publishers were incompetent and made a horrible mess of formatting the book.

 

Also in 2016 "David Wallechinsky has confirmed that, for the first time since 1984, he will not be publishing a new version of The Complete Book of the Olympics on the eve of the Summer Games - and added that writing what has become established as one of sport’s set texts is “no longer cost-effective.”

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9 hours ago, rafalgorka said:

I haven't read it yet but David Maraniss is a brilliant writer. His book on the Rome Olympics was superb

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Might be a good time to read Boys in the Boat for those who haven’t. The film adaptation will be coming out soon.

“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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21 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Might be a good time to read Boys in the Boat for those who haven’t. The film adaptation will be coming out soon.

Next month.

I wrote something about Olympic films many years ago.

https://olympstats.com/2014/11/13/lights-camera-olympic-games/

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