The First London Olympics 1908

The First London Olympics 1908

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In 1908, a group of volunteers took just 18 months to transform a 140acre site of scrubland in West London into the White City, which housed the first ever Olympic Games in London. Though the differences between todays games and those a century ago are many, as this delightful social and sporting history shows, just as today the sport was overshadowed by doping scandals and international uproar. The ferocious competitiveness of a US team dominated by New York Irish Americans led to a succession of scandals culminating in the historic marathon when Italian runner Dorando Pietris heroic efforts at the limits of exhaustion so entranced onlookers that track officials helped him across the finish line. Illustrated with more than 70 contemporary images this is a thoughtprovoking look at one of historys most raucous sporting events.

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