Game Changers
How a Team of Underdogs and Scientists Discovered What it Takes to Win
$69.27
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
30 August 2018
Summary
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Great Britain ranked thirty-sixth in the medals table, finishing below countries like Algeria, Belgium and Kazakhstan. It was their worst ever record, a dismal performance labelled a national disgrace. But then something happened. In Sydney in 2000 and then Athens in 2004, Team GB achieved a much more respectable tenth place. By 2016, in Rio, they finished second, above China and Russia, with sixty-seven medals. How have they so convincingly reversed their fortun…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781408708460 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1408708469 |
| Author: | João Medeiros |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2018 |
| Weight: | 672g |
| Dimensions: | 163mm x 244mm x 36mm |
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About The Author
João Medeiros
Joao Medeiros is Features Director for Wired magazine. He was born in Portugal, and came to the UK at eighteen. He has a PhD in theoretical physics at Imperial College. He has written widely for publications including The Economist, GQ and Nature. This is his first book.
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