The Olympic Games – A Brief (And Bizarre) History | BlogSDN Articles by Map of athens greece

Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:01:18 -0500

The Olympic Games – A Brief (And Bizarre) History | BlogSDN Articles

by Map of athens greece @ Sat, 26 Jun 2010 21:01:18 -0500
In her book First to the Wall, 100 Years of Olympic Swimming, Kelly Gonsalves describes the first swimming event: “Not only did they battle 12-foot waves, but the weather in Greece was unusually cold and the water was a frigid 55 degrees ... After traveling on foot from Rome to Athens, a one month journey, the Italian athlete Carlo Airoldi was banned from the games because he was a professional. As the book The Olympic's Strangest Moments describes, Dorando Pietri was ... Ayia Napa Holidays